scholarly journals The Strategic Council for Research Excellence, Integrity, and Trust

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (41) ◽  
pp. e2116647118
Author(s):  
Marcia McNutt ◽  
France A. Córdova ◽  
David B. Allison

We announce the creation of a new body within the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine called the Strategic Council for Research Excellence, Integrity, and Trust, charged with advancing the overall health, quality, and effectiveness of the research enterprise across all domains that fund, execute, disseminate, and apply scientific work in the public interest. By promoting the alignment of incentives and policies, adoption of standard tools, and implementation of proven methods, the Strategic Council seeks to optimize the excellence and trustworthiness of research for the benefit of society.

Author(s):  
Ivanna Kyliushyk

The author of the book research the interaction of politics and law as two important social regulators that have a common goal the effective development of society. The author defines the real models of interaction between politics and law, which have formed in Ukraine and the Republic of Poland in the process of social transformation, and the creation of an appropriate model, which should be based on the goal of ensuring the public interest.


Author(s):  
Kevin M. Baron

This chapter delves into the depths of one of the most important developments within modern American politics, the creation and institutionalization of executive privilege. In facing a fervent Congress in the grips of McCarthyism, Eisenhower issued a letter denying testimony to the Senate for the Army-McCarthy hearings. His letter included a memo from Attorney General Brownell that claimed the president had an inherent constitutional privilege to deny information to Congress or the public if it was in the public interest and for national security. This action institutionalized the Cold War Paradigm in the executive branch and created an extra-constitutional power for the president. Eisenhower issued several executive orders concerning classification and public dissemination of government information, along with the creation of the Office of Strategic Information (OSI) within the Commerce Department to oversee these policies. Eisenhower claimed historic precedent to justify his inherent constitutional power, regardless, it showed a learned response that changed executive power. Congress would respond in 1955 by creating the Special Subcommittee on Government Information chaired by Rep. John Moss, given jurisdiction for oversight on all executive branch information policies and practices. With the issue of freedom of information institutionalized in Congress, a 12-year legislative power struggle would unfold between Congress and the White House ending with the passage of the Freedom of Information Act in 1966.


This chapter traces the history of public service television. The history of British public service broadcasting policy in the 20th century is characterized by a series of very deliberate public interventions into what might otherwise have developed as a straightforward commercial marketplace. The creation of the BBC, the launch of an ITV network required to produce public service programming, and the addition of the highly idiosyncratic Channel 4 gave the UK a television ecology animated by quality, breadth of programming and an orientation towards serving the public interest. At each of these three moments, the possibilities of public service television were expanded and British culture enriched as a result. The 1990 Broadcasting Act and the fair wind given to multichannel services may have ended the supremacy of the public service television ideal. However, public service television has survived, through the design of the institutions responsible for it, because of legislative protection, and as a result of its continuing popularity amongst the public.


2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 413-429
Author(s):  
Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah

Abstract Resistance to the law made through expansionist interpretation of investment treaties by arbitral tribunals has led to the disintegration of the resulting structure of investment protection. The creation of an inflexible system of investment protection through arbitral interpretation undermines the exercise of power of states to take measures to protect the public interest. The process of disintegration of this unjust system must be hastened through the creation of new norms that ensure that obligatory rules deter the misconduct of multinational investors. If investment treaties are necessary, the regulatory power of states to promote the public interest should be given priority over investment protection.


1983 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-149
Author(s):  
Ian Eagles

The rules governing the exclusion of evidence in the public interest are usually discussed as if they were wholly the creation of the common law. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is a submerged statutory underside to Crown privilege, an underside which is no less important for being hitherto largely invisible to the judicial eye. More than 100 Acts and statutory instruments restrict the use which government departments and other public bodies may make of the information they acquire. Each such Act or instrument is a potential barrier to the use of the information in the courtroom. Just why this vast mass of legislation should have remained for so long forensically invisible is not immediately apparent. It is true that most of it was drafted to regulate disclosure outside the courtroom and its evidentiary provisions are often tucked away in obscure subsections whose import may be unclear to those administering the Acts.


2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen L. Sheppard

ArgumentThis article explores the history of mummy unwrappings in the West, culminating in Margaret Murray's public unrolling of two mummies in Manchester in 1908. Mummy unwrappings as a practice have shifted often between public spectacles which displayed and objectified exotic artifacts, and scientific investigations which sought to reveal medical and historical information about ancient life. Although others have looked at Murray's work in the context of the history of mummy studies, I argue that her work should be viewed culturally as poised between spectacle and science, drawing morbid public interest while also producing ground-breaking scientific work that continues to this day. Murray's main goal was to excite the interest of the public while at the same time educating them in the true history of ancient Egypt, while ascertaining new scientific information and contributing to the scholarly interpretations of ancient Egypt.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 831
Author(s):  
Adad Adad ◽  
Widayati Widayati

The existence of the Notary institution based on the needs of the community in making authentic act as a binding evidence. Notary role in serving the public interest is providing services in deed and other tasks that require the services of a Notary. Deed issued by Notary ensuring legal certainty for the public. Notaries have a role as well in running the legal profession can not be separated from the fundamental issues relating to the functions and role of the law itself. The authority Notary as stated in Article 15 UUJN is made the authentic act on all deeds, agreements, and provisions required by legislation and / or desired by an interested party, to be stated in an authentic deed, guaranteeing the creation date of the deed, saving certificates, provide a copy, and official copies, all along the deed is not assigned or excluded to officials or other persons specified by law. Notaries also authorized to certify the signatures and set a firm date of a letter under the hand by enrolling in a special book (legalization). Besides qualify predetermined law in order for a certificate to be authentic, a Notary in his duties shall carry out their duties with discipline, professional and moral integrity should not be in doubt. What is stated in the beginning and end of the deed is the responsibility of the notary is a phrase that reflects the true situation at the time of a deed. As stated in Article 65 UUJN: "Notary, Substitute Notary, Special Substitute Notary, and Acting Notary responsible for any deed that is made despite the Protocol Notary has been assigned or transferred to the storage Notary Protocol.Keywords: Inspection Process; Notary; Witnesses.


2003 ◽  
pp. 159-176
Author(s):  
Svetislav Taborosi ◽  
Tatjana Jovanic

In this paper, the authors discuss the public-law aspects and institutional arrangements related to the tendency for concentration and centralization as objectively existing processes and circumstances in liberally organized markets. Since this creates individual legal subjects which with their activities could endanger the proclaimed market liberties and the right for competition, there is a public interest to set public-law limitations for such subjects. In that sense, the paper discusses those (vertical and horizontal) contracts between companies which enable the creation of monopolies like in the case of concerns, trusts, cartels and their various conglomerates, including those which surpass national boundaries and function as multinational corporations.


Author(s):  
Susan Offutt

Public service is a calling distinct from academic education and research or business pursuits. For the career federal economist, the imperative to serve the public interest in a complex political setting introduces the potential for ethical dilemmas unique to government. Although the rewards of public service are considerable, the economist recognizes the possible tension between political goals and interests and the economist’s concern for professional independence and objectivity. Such friction with politics may on occasion result in suppression or alteration of results or analysis, direction to produce support for decisions already taken, and disagreement over policy decisions. To deal thoughtfully with these challenges, federal economists should be better prepared to think explicitly about ethics, have appeal to an external ethical standard, and advocate for the creation of legitimate internal government dialogue on ethics.


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