Taboo Trades Podcast Is Back!
I’m so happy that the Taboo Trades podcast is back for Season 2, after a hiatus.
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Taboo Markets On The Private Law Podcast
On the latest episode of The Private Law Podcast I discuss Taboo Markets and Trades with Felipe Jimenez. It was a wonderfully engaging conversation, due to Felipe’s thoughtfulness and knowledge. The topics ranged from sex work and egg and sperm markets to kidney donation and the Bad Art Friend. You can listen here or here …
2021 Legal Forum Symposium: The Body
2021 Legal Forum Symposium: The Body Legal issues surrounding our bodies are both timely and timeless. Because our understanding of the body is constantly evolving, law must continue to redefine how our bodies interact with the world around us. Accordingly, the University of Chicago Legal Forum will convene scholars to discuss how the law directly regulates and …
Repugnant Transactions at UVA Law
Well, it’s official–my new courses have been listed at UVA Law, including a course on “Repugnant Transactions.” Here’s the full post: New Courses This Fall Offer Different Looks at the Law. And here’s what they say about “Repugnant Transactions”: Repugnant Transactions, taught by Professor Kimberly D. Krawiec, will examine exchanges and transactions that are traditionally frowned upon …
Repugnance, Global Kidney Exchange, and Drinking Our Own Spit: An Oral Argument Reunion
Last week I had a great “reunion” with Joe Miller and Christian Turner taping the latest episode of their Oral Argument podcast. I first appeared on Oral Argument (which was also my first podcast ever) back in episode 17 (“Fleshlist”), which Christian and Joe reminded me was WAAAYY back in 2014. Wow, that seems like last year, …
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Repugnance Readings For The New Year
Happy 2019! Why not start out the new year with a set of readings on repugnance . . . you know you want to. (They’re readings on repugnance, not repugnant readings!) There is a piece from me, accompanied by excellent commentaries by Harvard law’s Glenn Cohen and the German philosopher, Weyma Lübbe (University of Regensburg). Sadly, all three pieces are behind a paywall. …
Meet me in Mannheim!
Next week I’ll be giving a keynote lecture and also participating in a panel discussion on “Allocation Problems in health care” at the MaCCI Law & Economics Conference on The Law and Economics of Market Design. From the conference website: The conference will provide an international platform for exchange and discussion between academic researchers and practitioners …
Me with Brian Frye on Ipse Dixit
I just did a short and fun podcast with Brian Frye (University of Kentucky College of Law) about repugnant markets ranging from kidneys to football, boxing, sex, and blood. You can listen below. Brian was a wonderful and generous host, and I’m so grateful for the opportunity to discuss my work with him (and with you!) Links …
Details of the first Global Kidney Exchange Live and (temporarily) ungated
The final version of the paper that I blogged about last week, Complete Chain of the First Global Kidney Exchange Transplant and 3-yr Follow-up, is now available online. The publisher has created a Share Link providing 50 days’ free access to the article. Anyone clicking on this link before October 27, 2018 will be taken directly to the final version …
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Details of the First GKE (Global Kidney Exchange) Chain
My co-authors and I recently published a paper that provides more detail on the first Global Kidney Exchange (GKE), including a 3-year follow-up report on the Filipino pair that participated. We wrote this, in part, to respond to GKE critics who argued that the Filipino pair had been exploited or coerced into participating, or who argued that …
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