Prohibition or Ethics Against Misleading Food Communications?

Prohibition against off-label drug promotion challenged.

Commitments or Prohibition? the Eu Antitrust Dilemma

The European Commission relies increasingly on commitment decisions. More transparency on the substance of allegations, and the establishment of a higher number of legal precedents, are however necessary. This applies in particular to cases that tackle antitrust issues in new areas, such as markets for digital goods, in which companies might find it difficult to assess if a certain behaviour co...

Distributed Leadership in Schools: Leading or Misleading

It is for this reason that ‘leadership’ has generated an enormous amount of interest among researchers and practitioners. A vast literature on school leadership and leadership theory exists (see Hallinger and Heck, 1996). Yet, despite a substantial research base, a singular, overarching theory of leadership has proved to be elusive. While researchers in many countries continue to produce a stea...

Gill and Sade • Paying for Kidneys: the Case against Prohibition

We argue that healthy people should be allowed to sell one of their kidneys while they are alive—that the current prohibition on payment for kidneys ought to be overturned. Our argument has three parts. First, we argue that the moral basis for the current policy on live kidney donations and on the sale of other kinds of tissue implies that we ought to legalize the sale of kidneys. Second, we ad...

Parents against prohibition: campaigning for drug law reform.

When Leah Betts died in 1995 after taking an ecstasy pill at her 18th birthday party, extraordinary media coverage resonated with the “just say no” mantra. Leah’s parents railed against all non-medical drug use, backing new laws to prohibit drugs, circulating a photograph of their comatose daughter in hospital, and running a poster campaign with the words “Sorted: Just one ecstasy tablet took L...