Authoritarian Legal Ethics: Bradley Wendel and the Positivist Turn

The Future of Legal Ethics

The Autopoietic Turn in Habermas’ Legal Philosophy

Since the publication of Between Facts and Norms, it appears to have gone largely unremarked by crit‐ ical theorists that Habermas has wholly abandoned the neo‐Parsonian systems‐theoretic account of so‐ cial systems developed in his middle period. In this paper, I argue not only that Habermas has developed a new vocabulary and theoretical structure for dealing with social systems ...

Ethics Governing Criminal Policy in the Islamic Legal System

Background: Islam as a comprehensive religion rooted in human nature and revealed in order to respond to basic human needs has broadened the ethics of its criminal policy to include crime, crime and punishment. In keeping with each other and with the other rules of this religion, it has set guidelines and values ​​based on ethics and principles for avoiding crime in the community if the Prophet...

The legal ethics of pediatric research.

Since the mid- to late 1990s, the scientific and medical research community has sought to increase its access to healthy children for research protocols that involve harm or a risk of harm. This move reverses longstanding policy within that community generally to exclude healthy children from such protocols on the grounds that the research as to them is non-therapeutic, that they are particular...

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 ...