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Jasper A. Bovenberg

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Jasper A. Bovenberg, an attorney at law, is the founder of Legal Pathways Institute for Health and Bio-Law.

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Embryos, Justice, and Personal Responsibility
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Embryos, Justice, and Personal Responsibility

Nov 29, 2018 Jasper A. Bovenberg & Bartha M. Knoppers call for three reforms of the decision-making process for human embryo research.

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Befriending the European Court of Justice
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Befriending the European Court of Justice

Apr 17, 2017 Jasper A. Bovenberg & Erik J. Spaans advocate the use of amicus curiae briefs to boost the ECJ's legitimacy and effectiveness.

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Patenting Immaculate Conception?
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Patenting Immaculate Conception?

Mar 1, 2016 Jasper A. Bovenberg, et al. believe that the morality of some biological inventions should be decided by citizens.

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Taxing Tissue

Taxing Tissue

Dec 21, 2006 Jasper A. Bovenberg

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Befriending the European Court of Justice
Apr 25, 2017

Dear mr Crop, your comment is spot on. precisely to help EU citizens bring their insights and knowledge (including figures) to the ECJ's attention, we set up the Amicus platform (https://www.amicus-ecj.eu/). However unofficially, this way we take the citizen's initiative to get the ball rolling.

Getting to Net-Zero Emissions
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Getting to Net-Zero Emissions

Johan Rockström says that, to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon world, governments must change the rules of the game.

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How to Renew the Social Contract
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How to Renew the Social Contract

Kemal Derviş & Caroline Conroy urge democratic governments to adapt their policies to the digital age and help provide global public goods.

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Corporate America in the Crossfire
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Corporate America in the Crossfire

Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng

The US may have a trade deficit with the rest of the world, but its multinational companies have a major surplus when it comes to sales in foreign markets – especially China. If the US-China trade war continues to escalate, these firms will be, as US President Donald Trump might put it, the biggest losers.

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Trump’s Art of the Spin
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Trump’s Art of the Spin

Stephen S. Roach

Policy blunders of epic proportions have become the rule, not the exception, for the US administration. The toxic combination of ill-timed fiscal stimulus, aggressive imposition of tariffs, and unprecedented attacks on the Federal Reserve demands a far more critical assessment of Trumponomics.

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How Developing Countries Can Achieve Universal Health Coverage
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How Developing Countries Can Achieve Universal Health Coverage

Jörg Reinhardt highlights Vietnam's highly successful, though still incomplete, quest to broaden access to quality care.

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How to Save the Internet
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How to Save the Internet

Shamel Azmeh argues that tackling inequalities in the digital economy can help to stem the tide of government regulation.

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The Gulf of Deniability
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The Gulf of Deniability

John Andrews urges the United States and its allies not to overreact to recent attacks on shipping in the region.

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America’s Bipartisan Climate-Policy Failure
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America’s Bipartisan Climate-Policy Failure

Mark Paul & Connor Rupp hope a growing chorus of new voices can bring an end to the Democratic Party's “climate-change denial lite.”

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