The purpose behind these guidelines is to promote (i) honest and
ethical conduct, including the
ethical handling of actual or apparent conflicts of interest between personal and professional relationships; (ii) full, fair, accurate, timely, and understandable disclosure in reports and documents that the Trust files with, or submits to, the SEC and in other public communications made by the Funds; (iii) compliance with applicable governmental laws, rule and regulations; (iv) the prompt internal reporting of violations of the Trust
Code to an appropriate person or persons
identified in the Trust
Code; and (v) accountability for adherence to the Trust
Code.
He felt that in Japan it is not an explicitly
identified code of ethics that influences
ethical behavior — but a general sense of shared societal duty.
For instance, one might expect comments: 1)
identifying ethical problems in legal scholarship that are given too little attention; 2)
identifying the most important or urgent
ethical problems in legal scholarship, even if they are already given attention; 3) asking questions about the definition of «scholarship» or «legal scholarship,» what counts as legal scholarship, and what kinds of norms, if any, should apply to writing by law professors as law professors but outside scholarly forums, such as tweets, blog posts, «law professors» letters,» op - eds, and so on; 4) proposing specific
ethical norms for legal scholarship, especially those that might, as it were, be part of a Restatement or
code of the ethics of legal scholarship; and 5) raising general questions, positive or critical, about what the conference should try to achieve or whether it is possible to achieve anything at all.