146.
Joe Pinsker,
The Staggering Number of Kids Who Have Lost a Parent to COVID-19, 2021.10.17,
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-staggering-number-of-kids-who-have-lost-a-parent-to-covid-19/ar-AAPBkB6?ocid=Peregrine .
An estimate published recently in the journal Pediatrics indicate at least 140,000 American children had lost a parent or caregiver because of the coronavirus by the end of June.
145.
Carl Zimmer,
Newly Discovered Bat Viruses Give Hints to Covid’s Origins, 2021.10.15,
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/newly-discovered-bat-viruses-give-hints-to-covid-s-origins/ar-AAPwqmZ .
This article illustrate that scientists traveled into the forests of northern Laos to catch bats that might harbor close cousins of the Covid-19 pathogen in the summer of 2020.
144.
AFP ,
UK govt botched initial Covid response: MPs' probe, 2021.10.12,
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/uk-govt-botched-initial-covid-response-mps-probe/ar-AAPpqGd .
That report said Leading advisors were guilty of "groupthink" and pushed a "gradual and incremental approach" to interventions such as social distancing, isolation and lockdowns, but lso praised the government's rapid launch of a mass vaccination campaign against Covid in December, arguing that had "redeemed" some of the earlier failings.
143.
Irene Calboli,
Trade marking ‘COVID’ and ‘Coronavirus’ in the USA: an empirical review, 2021.06.11,
https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpab032 .
The author reviews the applications including the terms ‘COVID’ and ‘Coronavirus’ filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 2020 and find that the COVID-19 pandemic led not only to a large number of filings for medical and pandemic related products, but also for unrelated and promotional products. Individuals and small businesses were the largest groups of filing entities. Moreover, over two-thirds of the filings were submitted based on intent-to-use rather than use in commerce. The author considers the number of filings closely mirrored the development of the pandemic during the various months of 2020 and concludes that one of the lessons that could be derived from the COVID-19 pandemic, and this unprecedented number of applications, is the need to further study the phenomenon of ‘sensation-drive’ trade mark filings and the problems that these filings can represent for the trade mark system.
142.
Edward S W Ti,
Of Landlords and Tenants: Property in the Midst of a Pandemic, 2021.07.01,
https://doi.org/10.1093/slr/hmab018 .
The author provides an overview of the regulatory protections given to business tenancies during the pandemic, as well as under the Landlord and Tenant Acts 1927 and 1954. The special responsibility owners have to not use their property in a harmful manner provides a strong basis to justify these regulations. The author advocates a modified version of Honoré’ s incident of ownership not to use property in a harmful manner. Drawing on theory, policy and the doctrine of frustration, the author explains why Honoré’ s incident provides the conceptual and ethical basis to justify not only the enactment of the coronavirus-inspired laws protecting business tenancies but more generally, when property rights can be statutorily interfered with.
141.
Francesco Sassi, Francesca Frassineti,
Chaos at the Gates: The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and energy price shocks on South Korea’ s gas industry amid energy transition, 2021.06.18,
https://doi.org/10.1093/jwelb/jwab018 .
The author points out that the far-reaching fallout of COVID-19 has been testing South Korea’ s energy transition pathway. Amid the combined effects of the pandemic and the global energy prices shocks, addressing the nexus between energy security on the supply side, affordability, and the safety of people’ s lives and property, has become even more pressing. Against this backdrop, natural gas has tailored a special role to bridge the low carbon re-alignment of the entire Korean energy system, also in the face of the current and future challenges to Korea’ s energy security. But long-drawn hurdles stemming from rather unsuccessful efforts to reform the gas system risk weakening its ability to cope with present uncertainties and heightened volatilities.
140.
Cosmos Nike Nwedu,
The Rise of Force Majeure amid the Coronavirus Pandemic: Legitimacy and Implications for Energy Laws and Contracts, 2021.03.01,
https://heinonline-org-443.webvpn.cfau.edu.cn/HOL/Page?public=true&handle=hein.journals/narj61&div=6&start_page=1&collection=usjournals&set_as_cursor=32&men_tab=srchresults .
The global outbreak of coronavirus disease has become one of humanity's greatest challenges. The energy sector has also been impacted, as it has seen episodic low prices of oil. This scenario is due to less demand for oil amid various containment measures and related health policies of governments worldwide. The performance of existing oil and gas contracts has been rendered impracticable in some parts of the world. This has resulted in parties invoking force majeure clauses as an excuse. However, the legitimacy of coronavirus as an acceptable force majeure has emerged controversial. This article, adopting an analytical approach, makes a case for coronavirus as a typical instance of force majeure for energy contracts or sales and purchase agreements, which can only avail defense depending on parties' contractual force majeure provisions. This article offers an understanding of force majeure alongside required fundamentals. Likewise, it highlights current debates about force majeure and likely impacts on future energy law contracts.
139.
Jason M. Groth, Sara Wolovick,
Overcoming Deliberate Indifference to the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021.03.01,
https://heinonline-org-443.webvpn.cfau.edu.cn/HOL/Page?collection=usjournals&handle=hein.journals/uthcrm5&id=16&men_tab=srchresults .
This article will discuss the thus far nearly insurmountable obstacle of the deliberate indifference standard in Eighth Amendment litigation in Section II. Section III considers the possibility of claims under Utah Constitution's unnecessary rigor clause being brought to test cases under the less burdensome standard of unnecessary abuse. Section IV examines how an unnecessary rigor analysis may benefit litigation that would likely be fruitless under a cruel and unusual punishment analysis that uses the deliberate indifference standard.
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Ana Santos Rutschman,
Property and Intellectual Property in Vaccine Markets, 2021.05.02,
https://heinonline-org-443.webvpn.cfau.edu.cn/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/txamrpl7&id=110&collection=usjournals&index= .
This Essay begins by mapping the dualism in vaccine research & development and commercialization, describing both "happy" and "unhappy" markets. It then connects the development of new vaccines with the default legal regime to promote innovation in the patent system. In exploring possible solutions for transactional problems arising in connection with the development of vaccine technology, this Essay asks whether the rights covering vaccine technologies are best understood as property rights or as something else. this Essay concludes by exploring how less property-like protection-in the form of a liability regime for critical components of vaccine technology-can remove some of the most salient transactional obstacles to the development and commercialization of new and better vaccines.
Chinese Society of International Law, in association with Chinese Institute of International Law at China Foreign Affairs University, and National Center for Foreign-related Rule of Law Research at China Foreign Affairs University
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