Informal legal change on assisted suicide: the policy for prosecutors

Legal Studies ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penney Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
Legal Change ◽  
The Public ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Suicide Case ◽  
Professional Assistance ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Commit Suicide

Following the House of Lords' decision in Purdy, the Director of Public Prosecutions issued an interim policy for prosecutors setting out the factors to be considered when deciding whether a prosecution in an assisted suicide case is in the public interest. This paper considers the interim policy, the subsequent public consultation and the resulting final policy. Key aspects of the policy are examined, including the condition of the victim, the decision to commit suicide and the role of organised or professional assistance. The inclusion of assisted suicides which take place within England and Wales makes the informal legal change realised by the policy more significant than was originally anticipated.

Discussion and Analysis

2014 ◽  
pp. 219-243
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Electronic Publishing ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Business ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
New Business Models

A discussion and analysis of the key aspects emerging during the course of the research comprise the basis of this chapter. It addresses, inter alia, the effect of the parallel importing debate on authors’ rights, the issue of publishing contracts, the idea of a “heavenly library” and copyright protection on the Internet, including a discussion on how existing territorial copyright structures may be affected by electronic publishing. This chapter also considers the Google initiatives and possible new business models for authors. The emerging theme of resale royalties for authors is examined and compared with the Resale Royalty Right for Visual Artists Act 2009. In conclusion, observations are made on the role of the author in the changing publishing landscape, situating the author as member of the “author sphere” in the context of the public sphere.

People Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-63
Author(s):  
Christian B. Jacobsen ◽  
Eva Knies
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Personnel Management ◽  
Leadership Behavior ◽  
Central Issue ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mutual Dependency ◽  
Internal Management ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Frontline Leaders

The central issue in this chapter is people management in public organizations. That is, managers’ implementation of HR practices and their leadership behavior in supporting the employees they supervise at work. This chapter focuses on five key aspects related to HRM and leadership in a public sector context. First, the historical move from personnel management to HRM and leadership. Second, the distinction between external and internal management and this chapter’s focus on internal management. Third, the role of middle and frontline leaders in the implementation of policies and their responsibility for turning general policies into results. Fourth, the mutual dependency between HRM policies and leadership. Fifth, the distinction between intended, implemented, and perceived HRM and leadership. This chapter systematically draws on both the general HRM and leadership bodies of literature, and specifies these insights to the public sector context whenever possible.

Szasz, suicide, and medical ethics

Thomas Szasz ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 55-64
Author(s):  
George J. Annas
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Physician Assisted Suicide ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Suicidal Patients ◽  
Commit Suicide

Szasz objected to the medicalization of suicide, the legalization of suicide prevention, and especially the coercive role of psychiatry in this realm. He declared that, by medicalizing suicide, we banish the subject from discussion. What is meant by acceptable and unacceptable “suicide”? Who has a right to commit suicide? How does suicide implicate freedom? Does it reflect abortion jurisprudence? How do psychiatrists become suicide’s gatekeepers? Current phenomena (e.g., new physician-assisted suicide legislation) illuminate these and other issues (e.g., euthanasia, informed consent, informed refusal, the “right to die,”), all suggesting how Szasz would react to each. Suicide is legal, but is almost always considered a result of mental illness. Courts approve psychiatrists who want to commit “suicidal” patients involuntarily. Granting physicians prospective legal immunity for prescribing lethal drugs is, at best, a strange and tangential reaction to our inability to discuss suicide (and dying) rationally. Szasz got it right.

The Politics of Next Generation Research Democratizing Research-Centred Computational Networks

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H Dutton
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Institutional Control ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relative Neglect ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Support Research

Research on information technology has been focused primarily on the worlds of IT and management systems for business and government to the relative neglect of research on the digital and institutional infrastructures that underpin the research enterprise itself. When digital research is studied, the emphasis has been on the diffusion of technological innovations, rather than the social and political dynamics shaping the design and role of technologies in research. However, what researchers know, and with whom they collaborate, could be transformed through the strategic use of advances designed to support research, defined here as ‘research-centred computational networks’. This article presents a framework for conceptualizing the social and technological choices shaping the next generation of research in ways that could open – democratize – key aspects of the research process that move well beyond academic publication. The framework highlights the limited scope of innovation to date, and identifies a variety of factors that maintain and enhance institutional control over the research process, at the risk of losing the creative and productive bottom-up participation by networked researchers and citizen researchers among the public at large. Conceptualizing, prioritizing and advancing study of next generation research is one of the most significant but difficult challenges facing scholars of information technology.

Common Knowledge and Cheap Talk in Democratic Discourse and Law

2021 ◽  
pp. 147-164
Author(s):  
Richard R. W. Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Cheap Talk ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Costly Signaling ◽  
The Public ◽  
Game Theoretic ◽  
Key Aspects

This commentary illuminates key aspects of Shiffrin’s view by appeal to concrete examples and notions from game theory. It underscores the role of law as a means for the public communication of moral commitments by invoking the idea of common knowledge. Our commitments must be known to be shared, that knowledge itself must be known to be shared, and so on ad infinitum. This offers a perspective on the importance of common law from a democratic framework: common law can be seen as a mechanism for generating common knowledge about disputes and their resolution. The commentary invokes another game-theoretic notion, that of the contrast between cheap talk and costly signaling, to illuminate Shiffrin’s discussion of constitutional balancing. Where the interests of speaker and addressee are not aligned, cheap talk lacks credibility, and this is something to which courts need to be sensitive in balancing state and constitutional interests.

Developing National Sport Policy through Consultation: The Rules of Engagement

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Sam ◽  
Steven J. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sport Policy ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Public Consultations

This study illustrates how the rules and practices of a task force inquiry shaped the formulation of its policy. Adopting an institutional approach, it analyzes New Zealand’s Ministerial Taskforce on Sport, Fitness and Leisure (2001). Specifically, this article investigates the role of institutional arrangements (including public consultation and submission procedures) in shaping, delimiting, and circumscribing that task force’s findings and recommendations. The investigation consists of a critical analysis of available texts—including recorded observations of public consultations, written submissions, committee notes—and interviews with task force members. Two features of this task force are described and analyzed: (1) its terms of reference and operative assumptions and (2) its rules and procedures that guided the public participation processes. It is shown that the institutional arrangements can channel debates and thereby recast political relations among interests.

scholarly journals Investigating Change Management Based on Participation and Acceptance of IT in the Public Sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 51-70
Author(s):  
Mariem Ben Rehouma ◽  
Tim Geyer ◽  
Timo Kahl
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
It Projects ◽  
The Public ◽  
Training Support ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Key Aspects

The digitalization of public administrations faces big challenges regarding employees' acceptance of IT. Change management approaches based on participation should help achieving acceptance and success of IT projects in the public sector. The research investigated how participation methods can be integrated into change management and which effects participation has on the acceptance of the introduced system in this sector. The authors followed a mixed research approach and conducted a quantitative and a qualitative study within public administrations and ministries in two states in Germany. The findings reveal that employees' participation in the form of information, communication, training, support, and active participation as well as the role of managers all have a significant positive relationship with employees' attitudes towards IT. Furthermore, they identified four key aspects of applying change-management based on employee participation in IT-projects, which they recommend to consider when implementing IT projects in the public sector in the future.

scholarly journals Reflections on ‘Then & Now’

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Elena Ruikyte
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Aspects

This article provides a student reflection on the management process of a student-led research project entitled Then & Now: Arts at Warwick. The project sought to document the history of the Arts Faculty at Warwick University and communicate it to the wider community. It was an interdisciplinary and collaborative co-creation project that brought together undergraduate and postgraduate students from across the Arts Faculty. Setting and aiming the goals of the project activities, managing teamwork and research processes, and planning and implementing the public engagement strategy in the unprecedented times of the Coronavirus pandemic were challenging and rewarding experiences. The article, framed by scholarly perspectives, summarises the key aspects of the project management process by discussing and analysing the role of an arts and cultural manager. The Then & Now project provided an opportunity to reflect on the significance of the profession while developing and learning new online-based project management practices.

scholarly journals Kyiv Association of Artists in the context of consolidation of the artistic forces of Kyiv in turn of the 19-20th cc.

2018 ◽  
pp. 68-83
Author(s):  
Igor Ponamarchuk
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Public ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
Similar Materials ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Key Aspects

The article is based on the statutory materials and catalogs of the exhibitions of artistic works which were held in Kyiv in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It reveals the basic principles of activity of the Kyiv artistic associations. The author focuses his attention on the main trends in the development of the exhibition activities in Kyiv during the specified period. In this article we can see the preconditions of the unifying processes in the local artistic environment, the role of the Peredvizhniki (“The Wanderers”) as well as exhibition events of the Kyiv Drawing School M. Muraskho in the public presentation of works of art by Kyiv’s artists. The author reconsiders the peculiarities of exhibition activity in Kyiv from the seldom events of the late 1870's to the exhibitions systematically led in the early 20th century. The statutes of Kyiv artistic intelligentsia associations from the 1890s-1900s ("Bakhtins", the Association of Artists of Kyiv, the Kyiv Union of Artists), the frequency and membership of their exhibitions were revealed. The author highlights the role of O. Murashko in the consolidation of artistic milieu of Kyiv, his initiative in the emergence of the Kyiv Association of Artists (KAA). Also the author carries out a comparative analysis of the Statute of the KAA and similar materials of the associations of Kyiv artists from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The author shows the key aspects of the art and exhibition activity of KAA during 1916-1918 and determines the role of the KAA in the cultural and artistic life of Kyiv with the advent of Soviet occupation (1917-1918) as well as the participation of KAA members in the establishment of the Council of United organizations, the Professional Union of Artists, the All-Ukrainian Congress of Artistic Organizations, the First Congress of People Ukrainian plastic art.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document