[{"id":404,"title":"Is it necessary to liberalize genetic paternity tests in France?","sha":"07fd37437a391bb7c8a84109370c2e5d","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"There is a real ethical problem with genetic paternity research In France. And first of all, a great hypocrisy: such test can be carried out on national territory only by court decision (at risk of being illegally for the subject and the analysis laboratory). However, many peripheral states (mainly Belgium, Holland and Spain) carry out this test in a liberal and commercial way: thus, it is possible to divert the law and send by mail a sample that will be analyzed abroad.\r\nWhy not authorize such paternity research in France outside any legal control? What is the risk? Cannot this liberalization be decided in the name of equal opportunities in access to information (intimate in this case): currently, only the richest have access to it, creating a double injustice (judicial and economic).\r\nThis liberalization finds its place in the current modification of the meaning of the family: to the traditional or rather historical family (in the Roman sense, then the Code Napoleon: those who live together under the same roof), the all-powerful reign of science (and, in the present case, molecular biology) is creating a new meaning for the family: to share the same genetic heritage. We are right here in the \"biopower\" of Michel Foucault, which radically changes the way we are responsible for access to information that is specific to us and that connects us to others, beginning with our close parents... supposedly and up to now proof of the contrary!","created_at":"2017-09-19T22:35:17.882Z","updated_at":"2017-09-20T06:01:23.562Z","zenodo_id":896958,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.896958","subject":null,"tags":["medical anthropology","forensics","medical ethics","international law","law"],"vote_count":0,"view_count":1,"score":0.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":92,"title":"International Law Challenges of Liability Regulation for Space Elevator Tourism ","sha":"711826afae9025361fab74142ebe7fc3","user_id":391,"state":"published","body":"A Space Elevator raises a number of issues from the legal perspective. Below an altitude of 100km  national law and international air law apply. Above, international space law would govern the elevator. Choosing a base station on land or at sea adds an other level of complexity to this issue. Is the elevator one structure to which different legal rules apply in different parts of the structure? Or is the transport unit which rides along the elevator line a spacefaring vessel and to simple to be treated no different from the way international law treated the Space Shuttle? \r\nFor passengers, this will raise a number of questions. In 2014 the Athens Convention, which regulates insurance requirements for passenger ships on international trips. What will be necessary from the perspective of passengers will be similar liability rules. But while passenger shipping has been around for centuries prior to the introduction to such rules, strict liability rules and insurance obligations are likely to make it even more difficult for start ups to enter the market. This problem might be relatively small given the overall costs and efforts associated with building and operating a space elevator but it needs further investigation.","created_at":"2015-02-24T10:29:58.961Z","updated_at":"2015-02-25T06:00:25.402Z","zenodo_id":23412,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15633","subject":null,"tags":["space","space elevator","space tourism","tourism","law","international law","liability","start up","insurance"],"vote_count":0,"view_count":1,"score":0.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null}]