Screencasting ethics and values: teaching contemporary legal issues and collective legal values through live screencasting

Ethical Values and Legal Regulation

UNTIL THE EARLY 1970S, R. J. REYNOLDS, DOW Chemical, the US Army, major pharmaceutical companies, and other sponsors conducted a wide variety of research on prisoners—a captive, vulnerable, and easily accessible population. During that time, approximately 90% of all pharmaceutical research was conducted on prisoners, who also were subjected to biochemical research ranging from testing diet drin...

Three Issues in Legal Ethics

Dimensions and Values for Legal CBR

We build on two recent attempts to formalise reasoning with dimensions which effectively map dimensions into factors. These enable propositional reasoning, but sometimes a balance between dimensions needs to be struck, and to permit trade offs we need to keep the magnitudes and so reason more geometrically. We discuss dimensions and values, arguing that values can play several distinct roles, b...

Private Recycling Values, Social Norms, and Legal Rules1

This article uses a large, original data set on U.S. recycling behavior and perception of social norms. The data include unique information with respect to personal norms as well as information on both descriptive and injunctive social norms with respect to recycling behavior. The analysis finds that the legal and regulatory environment is strongly related to average county recycling rates and ...

HEALTH LAW AND ETHICS Legal Issues in Scientific Research

DURING THE PAST 2 YEARS, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES have issued at least 4 reports that focused on inadequate protections for human subjects, insufficient financial controls at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and investigator conflicts of interest. In April 2000, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reported that few of the recommendations it...