The legal professions’ new handbooks: narratives, standards and values

Employee Handbooks and the Legal Effect of Disclaimers

Legal Standards, Enforcement, and Corruption

Stricter laws require more incisive and costlier enforcement. Because enforcement activity depends both on available tax revenue and the honesty of officials, the optimal legal standard of a benevolent government is increasing in per capita income and decreasing in officials’ corruption. In contrast to the “tollbooth view” of regulation, the standard chosen by a self-interested government is a ...

The “Reasonable Man” and other legal standards

In the common law of negligence, an individual breaches the duty of due care if she fails to act as would a “reasonable man” under the circumstances. A natural question, first posed by Rubinstein [8], is whether the “reasonable man” can be derived from the views of actual agents. Rubinstein introduced an axiomatic model and showed that there does not exist a non-dictatorial aggregation method w...

Knowledge and Attitude of Midwifery Students towards Observing the Ethical and Legal Standards of Patients' Rights

Background & aim: In the midwifery profession, observing legal and ethical issues in professional practices should be emphasized. Legal and ethical advancements in the realm of midwifery have raised the need for midwives’ awareness as to patient rights. This study was performed to evaluate midwifery students’ knowledge and attitude towards observing the ethical and legal standards of patient ri...

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...