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The Law and Ethics of Medical Research: International Bioethics and Human Rights

The Law and Ethics of Medical Research: International Bioethics and Human Rights


Aurora Plomer



The growing globalization of medical research and the application of new biotechnologies in morally contested areas has forced a ...
La Raz?n Del Deber Moral Y Jur?dico

La Raz?n Del Deber Moral Y Jur?dico


Juan Damián Traverso



La Raz?n Del Deber Moral Y Jur?dico...
Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Sector: A Toolkit

Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Sector: A Toolkit


Development, Oecd Organisation For Economic Co-Operation



Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Sector: A Toolkit...
Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges

Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges


Margrit Shildrick, Roxanne Mykitiuk



The provocative contention of the postmodernist and feminist essays in Ethics of the Body is that conventional bioethics is out of...
In Search of Consistency: Ethics And Animals

In Search of Consistency: Ethics And Animals


Lisa Kemmerer



This volume introduces the most important ideas in animal ethics and builds on a critical dialogue emerging at the intersection ...
An Ethics of Interrogation

An Ethics of Interrogation


Michael Skerker



The act of interrogation, and debate over its use, pervade our culture, whether through fictionalized depictions in movies and tel...
Inside Lawyers' Ethics

Inside Lawyers' Ethics


Adrian Evans, Christine Parker



Legal ethics is often described as an oxymoron or contradiction in terms - lay people find the concept amusing and lawyers can fin...
Race, Rights, and Justice

Race, Rights, and Justice


J. Angelo Corlett



Race, Rights, and Justice explores questions of the nature of law and constitutional interpretation, international law and global ...
Efficiency Instead of Justice?: Searching for the Philosophical Foundations of the Economic Analysis of Law

Efficiency Instead of Justice?: Searching for the Philosophical Foundations of the Economic Analysis of Law


Deborah Shannon, Klaus Mathis



Economic analysis of law is an interesting and challenging attempt to employ the concepts and reasoning methods of modern economic...
Ethics and Criminal Justice: An Introduction

Ethics and Criminal Justice: An Introduction


John Kleinig



This textbook looks at the main ethical questions that confront the criminal justice system - legislature, law enforcement, courts...
Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe

Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe


Lorraine Daston, Michael Stolleis



This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early mo...
In Confidence: When to Protect Secrecy and When to Require Disclosure

In Confidence: When to Protect Secrecy and When to Require Disclosure


Ronald Goldfarb



The variety and pervasiveness of confidentiality issues today is breathtaking. Not a day passes without a media report on a breach...
Nanotechnologie: Grundlagen, Anwendungen, Risiken, Regulierung

Nanotechnologie: Grundlagen, Anwendungen, Risiken, Regulierung


Arno Scherzberg, Joachim H. Wendorff



Nanotechnologie: Grundlagen, Anwendungen, Risiken, Regulierung...
Legal Ethics and Human Dignity

Legal Ethics and Human Dignity


David Luban



David Luban is one of the world's leading scholars of legal ethics. In this collection of his most significant papers he ranges ov...
Objectivity and the Rule of Law (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law)

Objectivity and the Rule of Law (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law)


Matthew Kramer



What is objectivity? What is the rule of law? Are the operations of legal systems objective? If so, in what ways and to what de...
The Rights of God

The Rights of God


Irene Oh



Promoting Islam as a defender of human rights is laden with difficulties. Advocates of human rights will readily point out numerou...
From positivism to idealism

From positivism to idealism


Sean Coyle



Examining the emergence and development of legal positivism as a distinctive and particularly powerful tradition in legal thought,...
Why lawyers behave as they do

Why lawyers behave as they do


Paul G. Haskell



In Why Lawyers Behave as They Do, Paul Haskell explains the professional rules that govern how lawyers behave and which permit-or ...