Genetics, Molecular Biology and the Law

This timely book provides a comprehensive treatment of the interface between the law and modern science as represented by genetics and molecular biology, albeit in a highly digestible and lucid style. Chapters are:-

• The Basics of Molecular Biology (the genome, genetics, proteomics);
• Criminal Law (molecular transfer processes;
• theft of DNA; forensic mathematics; keynote cases);
• Aspects of Civil Law (paternity and maternity;
• retention of DNA and privacy;
• DNA in medical law; (DNA, insurance and employment)
• Intellectual Property (patenting genes, expressed sequence tags and single nucleotide polymorphisms, keynote cases in U.K. and U.S.A.);
• Food (gene manipulation; aspects of tort; environmental risks);
• International Law (genetically modified organisms, CITES and CBD, warfare and molecular biology).

Genetics, Molecular Biology and the Law provides practitioners and academics alike with a detailed analysis of how the law is responding to the latest advances in the increasingly complex fields of molecular biology and genetics.