Experience and Legal Ethics Teaching

Teaching Ethics to Engineers: A Socratic Experience

In this paper we present the authors' experience of teaching a course in Ethics for Engineers, which has been delivered four times in three different universities in Spain and Chile. We begin by presenting the material context of the course (its place within the university program, the number of students attending, its duration, etc.), and especially the intellectual background of the participa...

Less Is More : Teaching Legal Ethics in Context Bruce

We who teach legal ethics employ many of the teacher's arts to win our students' appreciation for the course.' We do not always succeed. As Deborah Rhode has observed, "[t]here are inherent problems and infinite ways to fail in teaching this subject."2 Yet, we continue to seek a method for teaching the course effectively. If nothing else, our efforts have led to the development of a substantial...

Teaching medical ethics as a practical subject: observations from experience.

The author, head of a teaching hospital surgical unit, argues that the medical curriculum must ensure that all students are exposed to a minimum of ethical discussion and decision-making. In describing his own approach he emphasises the need to show students that it is 'an intensely practical subject'. Moreover, he reminds them that moral dilemmas in medicine--perhaps a better term than medical...

Legal briefing: Healthcare ethics committees.

This issue's "Legal Briefing" column covers recent legal developments involving institutional healthcare ethics committees. This topic has been the subject of recent articles in JCE. Healthcare ethics committees have also recently been the subject of significant public policy attention. Disturbingly, Bobby Schindler and others have described ethics committees as "death panels." But most of the ...

Three Issues in Legal Ethics