Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 12-18-25)

This week’s Taboo & Repugnant Roundup spans human challenge trials, egg donation markets in the United States and Spain, sperm donor genetics, and kidney transplantation. At first glance, these stories…

Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 12/8/2025)

The latest Substack connects three domains where law, norms, and market design intersect: • The organ-donation paradox, where ex-post gifts are celebrated while ex-ante payment remains illegal. • Feeding America’s…

Taboo and Repugnant Roundup

New Substack: Taboo & Repugnant Roundup This issue examines several consequential developments in reproductive and higher-education policy: • The rising use of elective IVF and PGT, and the shaky foundations…

Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (1/24)

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…

Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 11/17)

This week’s substack review spans the full terrain of repugnant markets: incentives for deceased donation, private-law innovation for intimate relationships, competing narratives about living donor transplantation in India, and a…

Taboo And Repugnant Weekly News

This week’s Taboo and Repugnant Recap covers pushback against the New York Times’ reporting on organ donation, Jeff Skopek’s fascinating arguments about animals that are “created to be killed,” and…