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LAW & MEDICINE INITIATIVE KEY WORKS
by uclawsf
Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes
Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes unpacks the system of perverse incentives that delivers the kind of exorbitant drug prices and profits that everyone loves except for those who pay the bills.
Evergreen Drug Patent Database
C4i's 2018 article, "May Your Drug Price Be Evergreen" analyzed patents in the FDA's "Orange Book" of approved drugs a search through 160,000 data points to examine every instance where a company added a new patent or exclusivity.
The data have been made available as the Evergreen Drug Patent Database: https://sites uclawsf edu/ evergreensearch/about/
Lochner Revenant
by Robin Feldman & Gideon Schor NYIJournalofLaw&Liberty(2023)
During the Lochner era, the Supreme Court interpreted constitutional doctrine broadly to strike down scores of state statutes with an essentially free hand Today, some federal courts have been heading towards a new Lochner era, in which numerous state laws regulating health and safety can be invalidated on the thinnest of constitutional grounds.
Within a year of the article's publication, the Supreme Court's decision in NPPC v. Ross essentially applied the position C4i took in favor of narrowing the extraterritoriality principle.
