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Tainted Prosecution Of Tainted Claims: The Law, Economics, And Ethics Of Fighting Medical Fraud Under The Civil False Claims Act, Dayna Bowen Matthew Jul 2001

Tainted Prosecution Of Tainted Claims: The Law, Economics, And Ethics Of Fighting Medical Fraud Under The Civil False Claims Act, Dayna Bowen Matthew

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Human Rights And Business Ethics: Fashioning A New Social Contract, Wesley Cragg Mar 2001

Human Rights And Business Ethics: Fashioning A New Social Contract, Wesley Cragg

New England Journal of Public Policy

The author speaks about the social contract which is a general understanding of respective responsibilities in complex societies and traces its impact from the Declaration of Independence to more recent times.


Some Ethical Issues Surrounding Mediation, Robert P. Burns Jan 2001

Some Ethical Issues Surrounding Mediation, Robert P. Burns

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Middle-Class Lawyering In The Age Of Alzheimer's: The Lawyer's Duties In Representing A Fiduciary, Patrick Emery Longan Jan 2001

Middle-Class Lawyering In The Age Of Alzheimer's: The Lawyer's Duties In Representing A Fiduciary, Patrick Emery Longan

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Ethics Beyond The Horizon: Why Regulate The Global Practice Of Law?, Christopher J. Whelan Jan 2001

Ethics Beyond The Horizon: Why Regulate The Global Practice Of Law?, Christopher J. Whelan

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Article explores whether global self-regulation of the legal profession is desirable. The Author explains that as global law practice has grown over the past decade, so has the desire to formulate global rules of professional responsibility. The Article focuses on large law firms offering transnational legal services in many countries. The Author addresses whether and for whom the aspiration to deliver core values at the global level is desirable. He does so by comparing the rhetoric of global self-regulation with the reality of global law practice. In reality, the global law practice has undermined the power of nation states …


Lessons Taught By Miss Evers' Boys: The Inadequacy Of Benevolence And The Need For Legal Protection Of Human Subjects In Medical Research , Donald H.J. Hermann Jan 2001

Lessons Taught By Miss Evers' Boys: The Inadequacy Of Benevolence And The Need For Legal Protection Of Human Subjects In Medical Research , Donald H.J. Hermann

Journal of Law and Health

The Tuskegee study is perhaps the most notorious example of abuse in medical research in the United States. It is significant that the project was not ended until twenty-five years after the adoption of the Nuremberg Code of 1948, the first article of which establishes its principle that human subjects should not be experimented on without their consent. Continuing concern about the ethics of medical and scientific research have been fueled by finding about other research abuse such as the radiation experiments in the 1940's and 1950's that involved subjects being injected with plutonium without their knowledge and feeding radioactive …


Report Of The Ethics And Professionalism Working Group, Nanette Schrandt Jan 2001

Report Of The Ethics And Professionalism Working Group, Nanette Schrandt

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Adr And The Professional Responsibility Of Lawyers, Jacqueline M. Nolan-Haley, Robert F. Cochran Jr., Stephen K. Huber, Kimberlee K. Kovach Jan 2001

Adr And The Professional Responsibility Of Lawyers, Jacqueline M. Nolan-Haley, Robert F. Cochran Jr., Stephen K. Huber, Kimberlee K. Kovach

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Should the meaning of "ethical" lawyering change in the ADR context? This article contains several essays arguing that change is needed, that current ethics rules and codes must be adjusted, and new rules must be drafted that respond to the subtleties and complexities of the issues raised in ADR legal practice. Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow provides an overview of the major ethical issues facing lawyers in ADR practice and reviews the current ethics rules landscape in ADR. Professor Robert Cochran offers a proposal to amend the current professional responsibility rules to include a mandate for advising clients of ADR options. Professor …