Taboo Trades and Forbidden Markets

On Monday, I blogged about the announcement by the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority that it will reconsider its restrictive caps on payments to egg and sperm donors, due…

Mid-Week Links

USC’s Daria Roithmayr and Duke’s Guy-Uriel Charles on Why Race Still Matters at CNN. On Sotomayor: No one was surprised when the subject of race dominated the public conversation during…

Vive Le Tour! Vive Le Dope!

The Tour de France ended yesterday, with Alberto Contador in yellow, and Lance Armstrong on the podium in third.  Like Gordon, I love the Tour de France for many reasons,…

Sunday Links Round Up

Mary Dudziak, at Legal History Blog, discusses books and book reviews of interest to legal historians, including Charlotte Brooks' new book, Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the…