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Taboo Trades Podcast: The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation with Hagai Boas

February 27, 2023 / By / Leave a Comment

Today’s guest is the Israeli sociologist, Hagai Boas, a four-time organ transplant recipient and the author of The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation. Hagai is the second transplant recipient on the podcast (Sally Satel has received two kidney transplants), but I’ve never met anyone before who has been transplanted *four* times, or who has purchased an …

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Taboo Trades Podcast: Payment, Exploitation, & Clinical Trials with Holly Fernandez Lynch

January 21, 2023 / By / Leave a Comment

In this episode, Holly Fernandez Lynch and I continue our discussion of clinical research ethics with co-hosts Rahima Ghafoori and Caroline Gozigian (UVA Law ’23). In this Part 2 of our interview, we focus on questions of payment, exploitation, and trust. As a reminder, in Part I, Holly introduced the basic regulatory framework governing clinical …

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Taboo Trades Podcast: Clinical Research Ethics with Holly Fernandez Lynch

December 30, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment

Holly Fernandez Lynch and I discuss clinical research ethics, including challenge trials, research subject payment, and diversity in medical research with co-hosts Rahima          Ghafoori and Caroline Gozigian (UVA Law ’23). In this episode, Holly introduces the basic regulatory framework governing clinical trials, with a focus on laws and rules impacting payment. …

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Taboo Trades Podcast: Are International Surrogates Exploited with Stephen Wilkinson

December 16, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment

In today’s episode, UVA Law 3Ls, Makenna Cherry and Meghana Puchalapalli join me to continue our discussion with Lancaster University professor Stephen Wilkinson. Wilkinson is a Professor of Bioethics, Associate Dean for Research for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and Chair of the University Research Ethics Committee. Much of his work is about …

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Taboo Trades Podcast: International Surrogacy w/ Stephen Wilkinson

November 30, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment

My guest today is Lancaster University professor Stephen Wilkinson and I’m joined by two UVA Law 3L co-hosts, Makenna Cherry and Meghana Puchalapalli. Wilkinson is a Professor of Bioethics, Associate Dean for Research for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and Chair of the University Research Ethics Committee. Much of his work is about …

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Taboo Trades Podcast: Mary Anne Case on A Post-Dobbs Right to F*$#

November 17, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment

In today’s episode, UVA Law 3Ls Reidar Composano and Bryan Blaylock join me to continue our discussion with University of Chicago Law professor, Mary Anne Case, about her forthcoming paper, Donorsexuality. The f-bomb is dropped (but for reasons relevant to the paper) and I emphasize (again) that all this Con Law talk is not welcome …

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Taboo Trades Podcast: Donorsexuality with Mary Anne Case

November 8, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment

University of Chicago Law professor, Mary Anne Case, joins me and UVA Law 3Ls Reidar Composano and Bryan Blaylock to discuss her forthcoming paper, Donorsexuality. The f-bomb is dropped (but for reasons relevant to the paper) and I emphasize (again) that all this Con Law talk is not welcome on my podcast. No one listens …

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Taboo Trades Podcast: Peterson on Prisons, Part II

October 30, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment

Jonathan Peterson and I continue our discussion of prisons, commodification, and privatization, together with UVA Law 3Ls Ryan Fitzgerald and Mary Talkington.  Peterson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola New Orleans and the paper we’re discussing is forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook on Commodification, edited by Elodie Bertrand and Vida Panitch. (As mentioned …

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Taboo Trades Podcast: Prisons, Commodification, & Privatization with Jonathan Peterson

October 24, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment

In this episode, I’m joined by UVA Law 3Ls Ryan Fitzgerald and Mary Talkington to interview Jonathan Peterson, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola New Orleans, about commodification and privatization in prisons. The paper we’re discussing is forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook on Commodification, edited by Elodie Bertrand and Vida Panitch. Jonathan’s research specializations …

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Common Law Season 5 Launches with Taboo Trades

October 21, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment

My dean, Risa Goluboff, and colleague, Cathy Hwang, launch the fifth season of the podcast “Common Law” by interviewing me about my courses (including a new course, Blood Feud, taught with Peter Jaworski), my podcast (the Taboo Trades podcast), and my recent paper, “Markets, Repugnance and Externalities,” published in the Journal of Institutional Economics this …

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