Sentences with phrase «many ethics experts»

The recent Canadian court ruling against the parents of a toddler who died of bacterial meningitis opens up an opportunity for an ethics expert to step forward and address the underlying morality of the issue.

Senior administration officials with active corporate activities raises a potential conflict of interests, ethics experts have warned.

The hotel, just down the street from the White House, has drawn protests from ethics experts who worry that foreign governments or special interests could stay there in order to curry favor with the administration.

Even if Mr. Kushner placed his own holdings in a blind trust, his marriage to Ms. Trump poses an inherent conflict, according to ethics experts, because he would have access through his wife to information about Mr. Trump's businesses that the president - elect should be barred from knowing.

Had Trump taken the measures suggested repeatedly by ethics experts on both sides of the political aisle, he would by now have put his assets in what's called a blind trust, which would entail turning over his empire to a third party with whom he will have no contact, who would sell off the properties and reinvest the resulting money in other assets without providing the president any information about the sales or the purchases.

This won't satisfy the ethics experts whose severe case of Trump derangement syndrome leads them to insist upon divestment, but there are good reasons for Trump not to divest:

Though Trump and Dillon claimed that their plan resolved questions about conflicts of interest, ethics experts disagree: Because Trump still knows what his assets are and the identities of those with whom he does business, they say, Trump still knows more than enough to favor his company.

According to numerous ethics experts, the clause takes an expansive definition of gifts, encompassing everything from a direct bribe to a foreign official's approval of construction of a new Trump property.

Legally, that's fine, but some ethics experts have concerns.

But the filings offered little insight into how the fund will operate, raising concerns about its transparency and how it will comply with conflict of interest rules, ethics experts said.

«Farming cloned livestock should be banned because the animals suffer too much, EU ethics experts said last night.»

A general summary was provided by ethics experts who testified before then - Congressman Albert Gore's Committee on Science and Technology in 1982: (1) Though risks in experimentation are inevitable, a strong bias toward the sacredness of human life requires the highest regard for the patient or subject.

In an arrangement prominent ethics experts say is without precedent and potentially illegal, the White House is referring questions for senior presidential adviser Stephen K. Bannon to an outside public relations agent whose firm says she is working for free.

«The pay - to - play rules are very clear,» said Craig Holman, an ethics expert at the watchdog group Public Citizen.

The president - elect's cryptic announcement stoked doubt among ethics experts, who fear the Manhattan mogul may be unwilling to follow past precedent to assure Americans that he won't mingle business with governing as president.

Some legal ethics experts quoted in the Newsday story said Levy should fill out both and, on the county form, disclose his wife's business interests.

But ethics experts said the lack of clarity around procedure could undermine accountability and public trust.

The corporate ethics expert and former parliamentary standards watchdog derided this suggestion as «bunkum» as he was recognised for a 40 - year career in technology and banking, as well as his charity work.

When ethics expert Jane Feldman's departure from the New York State Assembly, and her appraisal of the experience as «as waste of money,» was first reported by the Times Union last week, many saw it as another blow to reform efforts in Albany.

Government ethics experts and a senior New York Democrat question whether Rep. Chris Collins — by far the largest shareholder in an Australian - based biotech company called Innate Immunotherapeutics — and Georgia Rep. Tom Price, Trump's health secretary nominee, bought stock in the company last year based on inside information and made a lot of moneys a result.

Democrats are asking whether Rep. Chris Collins» involvement in an Australian biotech firm amounts to illegal insider trading, but congressional ethics experts doubt that his colleagues on the House Ethics Committee will find anything untoward.

Whether or not specific municipal bond executives gave to the specific PACs, though, may be a moot point: Regulators and ethics experts note that the rule covers «any political action committee controlled» by the bond dealer.

Meanwhile, regulators and ethics experts questioned the basic premise of the banks» legal rationale.

The result, ethics experts said, missed the problem.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's announcement Friday that he will have donors pay for his mounting legal bills connected to suspected corruption in his administration has led ethics experts to publicly denounce the plan.

Legal and ethics experts who helped draft the 1988 Suffolk ethics law say this requires Levy to report West's work for county vendors - businesses selected by the county for work paid with tax dollars.

Adds ethics expert Howard K. Schachman, a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, «The definition of scientific misconduct presented in the Wellcome Trust document contains words and ideas that I think should be eliminated.»

But Fitzgerald also purchased shares in pharma giants Merck and Bayer after taking over the CDC — an apparent conflict of interest that also confounded government ethics experts.

Dr Anna Smajdor, a medical ethics expert from the University of East Anglia's Norwich Medical School, said:

Clinical ethics expert Cynda Hylton Rushton on the ethical challenges facing nurses in the Ebola outbreak

That's the future a biomedical ethics expert envisions for 20 to 40 years from now — soon enough that today's children may face it when they start their own families.

Seligman's alarming journey from psychologist working with learned helplessness to his connection with the CIA was revealed in a 2011 book written by law professor and ethics expert M. Gregg Bloche (current co-director for the Georgetown - Johns Hopkins Joint Program in Law and Public Health).

Legal ethics expert Stephen Gillers, quoted in the article, says lawyers have broad protection from these types of claims so that they can defend their clients vigorously.

«The lawyer's overriding obligation is to say and do nothing to harm the client's interests, defined broadly to include the client's case outcome, the client's reputation - based concerns, and the client's desire for privacy,» says ethics expert Lara Bazelon, who teaches at the University of San Francisco School of Law.

Newspaper editorials around the country called for her removal, as did several groups of lawyers and judicial ethics experts.

«Some law firms allow paralegals to sign up new clients,» says ethics expert Peter A. Joy, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

Some ethics experts identify delegating too much work to paralegals as the No. 1 ethical concern for attorneys.

Virginia legal ethics expert Jim McCauley, who is ethics counsel for the Virginia State Bar, told The Daily Press that the investigation could result in a letter telling Poulson to discontinue the practice of law.

legal ethics expert Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., like Hackett, predicts the profession will pay more attention to lawyer mobility and conflicts issues involving in - house lawyers.

New York University ethics expert Stephen Gillers recommended that Kozinski recuse himself from the Isaacs case to avoid any questions about objectivity, but beyond that, sees no ethical bar to Kozinski continuing to sit on the bench.

From his research, while admitting he's not an ethics expert, he concludes:

I am no ethics expert.

[2] These programs attempt to achieve more consistent behavior across the firm by relying on specifically designated ethics experts who take the lead in establishing standard procedures that coordinate and reduce reliance on individual discretion.

I welcome correction from any ethics experts who care to weigh in.

Notably, Parloff writes, several legal - ethics experts initially saw no problem with the site, «since none realized that the site was run by a law firm until I told them.»

But why wouldn't they when the company's top lawyer and ethics expert was so gleefully arranging it?

Juridica also maintains a standing panel of expert legal advisors, comprised of leading law professors and legal ethics experts.

I'm definitely not an ethics expert, but I'm not sure how broadly we ought to read the rule.

(3) Judicial ethics expert Steve Lubet published an interesting, entertaining, and brief reaction to Justice Scalia's apparent acceptance of torture techniques.

On this episode of The Digital Edge, Sharon D. Nelson and Jim Calloway ask legal ethics expert Tom Spahn about the proper way to professionally deal with the various situations that arise when a law firm splits up.