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A Business Ethics Perspective On Sarbanes-Oxley And The Organizational Sentencing Guidelines, David Hess Jan 2007

A Business Ethics Perspective On Sarbanes-Oxley And The Organizational Sentencing Guidelines, David Hess

Michigan Law Review

This Article assesses the ability of Sarbanes-Oxley and other recent changes in the law and stock exchange listing requirements to reduce the incidence of fraud and to increase the reporting of financial misconduct. It begins by examining the individual decision-makers within a corporation and analyzing their intentions and behaviors under the Theory of Planned Behavior. It then examines the ability of the organization to influence the employees' intentions and behaviors through codes of ethics and compliance programs, and finds growing support for the usefulness of integrity based compliance programs. Finally, the Article considers how the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation and Organizational Sentencing …


The Ethics Of The "Unprofessional Profession", Gerald Caplan May 1990

The Ethics Of The "Unprofessional Profession", Gerald Caplan

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing by Edwin J. Delattre


Personal Responsibility And Public Integrity, J. Patrick Dobel May 1988

Personal Responsibility And Public Integrity, J. Patrick Dobel

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Political Ethics and Public Office by Dennis Thompson


Mr. Justice Murphy -A Note Of Appreciation, John H. Pickering, Eugene Gressman, T. L. Tolan Jr. Apr 1950

Mr. Justice Murphy -A Note Of Appreciation, John H. Pickering, Eugene Gressman, T. L. Tolan Jr.

Michigan Law Review

Justice Murphy would have observed his tenth anniversary on the Supreme Court on February 5, 1950. Just as some of us who were privileged to serve as his law clerks were beginning to think of plans to honor him on that occasion, the news of his death came to stun us. So instead we pay homage to his memory by relating some of the manifold aspects of the character of this most noble man.


Libel And Slander - Defamation Of Attorney - Words Not Actionable Per Se, Roy L. Steinheimer Jr. Nov 1939

Libel And Slander - Defamation Of Attorney - Words Not Actionable Per Se, Roy L. Steinheimer Jr.

Michigan Law Review

The defendant, during the course of a public address, said of the plaintiff, an attorney: "They are throwing the bum out. The politicians . . . pick up a bum in a gin mill and send him over here to break up the audiences . . . . " Plaintiff alleges that, by innuendo, these words charge him with being a habitual drunkard, which constitutes slander per se because the words prejudiced him in his profession. Held, that the words were not actionable per se. Weidberg v. La Guardia, 170 Misc. 374, 10 N. Y. S. (2d) 445 …