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Providing a new (and needed) theoretical model for drug regulation regimes

By Douglas A. Berman

One of my new colleagues while I am here visiting at Fordham Law School, Kimani Paul-Emile, has this terrific and terrifically important new paper available via SSRN, which develops a theoretical model for different drug regulatory regimes.  The piece is titled "Making Sense of Drug Regulation: A Theory of Law for Drug Control Policy," and here is the abstract: This article advances a new theory of drug regulation that addresses two previously unexamined questions: how law-makers are able to regulate drugs differently irrespective of the dangers the drugs may pose and independent of their health effects, and the process followed to achieve this phenomenon.  For example, although tobacco products are the leading cause of preventable death in the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 11, 2010 (boomark / email).