The Necessity for a Public Defender

The Public Defender as International Transplant

The last quarter century has seen countries across Latin America and other parts of the world dramatically transition from an inquisitorial criminal justice system to an adversarial system. As a part of this shift in adjudication, these systems have adopted a key component of the adversarial system: the public defender. But while the formal and structural changes in these systems have been prof...

Ethical Public Entrepreneurship: a Necessity for the 21 Centry

Public entrepreneurship is a management approach developed by the reinventing government movement. Reinvention is a response to more than two decades of conservative attacks on the efficacy of government. The Proposition 13 property tax revolt in California in the early 1970s started a relentless public and media fueled campaign for government to do more with less. The administrations of Ronald...

Public Defender the Complement of the District Attorney

Public private partnerships: a marriage of necessity.

Harnessing the unprecedented flexibility that iPSC technology and gene editing offer academic and industry-based researchers requires developing an interactive model of collaboration. Such a model will have to leverage the basic research expertise in academia with the pharmaceutical industry's knowledge in manufacturing and high throughput technology to be successful.

Open-Access Science: A Necessity for Global Public Health

The world of scientific research and scholarly publishing is undergoing a profound transformation in large part due to the rapid development of information and communication technologies. The Internet and the advent of faster networking capabilities now allow virtually unlimited access to information, remote data gathering, real-time integration of data into databases and models, and online pur...