Event Title
Is Tobacco a Drug? Administrative Agencies as Common Law Courts
Location
Duke Law School
Start Date
6-3-1998 8:45 AM
End Date
6-3-1998 10:00 AM
Description
Professor Cass Sunstein argues that the FDA has the authority to regulate tobacco products. He considers the text of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which supports the FDA assertion, and the context of its enactment, which argues against the FDA.
Related Paper
Cass R. Sunstein, Is Tobacco a Drug? Administrative Agencies as Common Law Courts, 47 Duke Law Journal 1013-1069 (1998)
Available at: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol47/iss6/1
Is Tobacco a Drug? Administrative Agencies as Common Law Courts
Duke Law School
Professor Cass Sunstein argues that the FDA has the authority to regulate tobacco products. He considers the text of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which supports the FDA assertion, and the context of its enactment, which argues against the FDA.
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