TY - JOUR
T1 - Cloning international law
T2 - The science and science fiction of human cloning and stem-cell patenting
AU - Lavi, Shai
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2014.
PY - 2018/2/1
Y1 - 2018/2/1
N2 - The article offers a critical appraisal of the rise of international governance in the field of genetics and reproductive technologies as “legal cloning.” It critically explores two of the dominant approaches to the homogenization of international law: the instrumentalist approach promoted by legal realists (law and science) and the deterministic approach advanced by legal surrealists (law and science fiction). As an alternative to both, the article offers an account of bio-technology’s modus operandi, and its power to “clone,” namely, to reduce human diversity – whether genetic, moral, or legal – not to identity but to a controlled and standardized uniformity. By examining three case studies of international law and transnational law – the UN declaration on human cloning, the recent restriction of the patenting of human embryonic stem cell research by the CJEU – along with Aldous Huxley’s classic novel Brave New World, the article unveils three different ways in which cloning operates in international law: international law versus cloning, international law as cloning, and the cloning of international law.
AB - The article offers a critical appraisal of the rise of international governance in the field of genetics and reproductive technologies as “legal cloning.” It critically explores two of the dominant approaches to the homogenization of international law: the instrumentalist approach promoted by legal realists (law and science) and the deterministic approach advanced by legal surrealists (law and science fiction). As an alternative to both, the article offers an account of bio-technology’s modus operandi, and its power to “clone,” namely, to reduce human diversity – whether genetic, moral, or legal – not to identity but to a controlled and standardized uniformity. By examining three case studies of international law and transnational law – the UN declaration on human cloning, the recent restriction of the patenting of human embryonic stem cell research by the CJEU – along with Aldous Huxley’s classic novel Brave New World, the article unveils three different ways in which cloning operates in international law: international law versus cloning, international law as cloning, and the cloning of international law.
KW - Bioethics
KW - Biotechnology
KW - Cloning
KW - Human genome
KW - International law
KW - Law and technology
KW - Science fiction
KW - Stem cell patenting
KW - Stem cell research
KW - Transnational law
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040779474&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1743872114522155
DO - 10.1177/1743872114522155
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AN - SCOPUS:85040779474
SN - 1743-8721
VL - 14
SP - 83
EP - 99
JO - Law, Culture and the Humanities
JF - Law, Culture and the Humanities
IS - 1
ER -