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A Unified Theory Of Data, William Magnuson
A Unified Theory Of Data, William Magnuson
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How does the proliferation of data in our modern economy affect our legal system? Scholars that have addressed the question have nearly universally agreed that the dramatic increases in the amount of data available to companies, as well as the new uses to which that data is being put, raise fundamental problems for our regulatory structures. But just what those problems might be remains an area of deep disagreement. Some argue that the problem with data is that current uses lead to discriminatory results that harm minority groups. Some argue that the problem with data is that it impinges on …
Some Principles Require Principals: Why Banning “Conflicts Of Interest” Won’T Solve Incentive Problems In Biomedical Research, William M. Sage
Some Principles Require Principals: Why Banning “Conflicts Of Interest” Won’T Solve Incentive Problems In Biomedical Research, William M. Sage
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This Article seeks to bring greater discipline to the analysis of conflicts of interest in biomedical research, and by doing so to reveal trends and tensions in the research enterprise that require a more deliberate and longer term response. By comparing tensions in biomedical research to those affecting indisputably "relational" professionals such as lawyers, this Article concludes that "conflict of interest" is the wrong language to describe most of these situations, and leads to the wrong solutions. Conflict of interest analysis in law derives from an image of professional obligation running directly from expert agent to dependent principal. Because a …