This week’s roundup brings together multiple strands of interest to scholars working on courts, health policy, bioethics, and market governance.
The discussion of private judges highlights a notable shift in dispute-resolution practice, with new statutes encouraging (or refining) private judging in complex civil matters. Critics frame it as a structural equity problem; defenders frame it as a resource-management solution.
The closure of the AMA Journal of Ethics marks a significant loss for accessible bioethics scholarship. Given its readership and influence, the decision raises broader questions about open-access models in professional organizations.
The piece on libertarian eugenics captures how gene-editing technology, deregulation, and venture-backed reproductive innovation are converging in ways that unsettle long-established taboos—even as the terminology of eugenics remains socially fraught.
Finally, Peter Jaworski’s latest plasma policy brief adds new comparative data and synthesizes emerging research on the local effects of plasma centers, informing debates over compensation, self-sufficiency, and regulatory design.
Full roundup:
https://open.substack.com/pub/kimberlydkrawiec/p/taboo-and-repugnant-roundup-week-127