The Brain on the Stand? Interactions between Neuroscience, Ethics and Law

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Schleim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
The United States ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Law And Psychology ◽  
The University ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Philosophical Questions ◽  
Legal And Ethical Issues ◽  
Current Stage

On October 4 and 5 2007, experts from the United States, the Netherlands, and Germany met at the University of Delft to hold a workshop on “The Ethics of Neuroimaging”. According to the organizer, Aldus Lokhorst, this was the first Dutch event on “neuroethics”, to use the new term that has become familiar since the early 2000s. The agenda comprised several issues including the state of the art of neuroimaging, legal and ethical issues related to that research as well as philosophical questions concerning the prospects and limitations of investigating the human brain. Even though the participants came from various disciplines, including philosophy, law, and psychology, it was surprising that no Dutch neuroscientist participated in the workshop. Because the organizers had tried persistently to get these researchers involved, they inferred that at the current stage their empirical colleagues' interest in ethical, legal and social aspects of the investigation of the brain must be low. Considering that the recent boom of neuroethics in the United States was strongly sustained by neuroscientists, the Dutch researchers' apparent lack of interest is surprising.

The Style of the New War: Making the Rules as We Go Along

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
George A. Lopez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
The United States ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Al Qaeda ◽  
Collateral Damage ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Legal And Ethical Issues

It is curious to note the evolution of discussions about the moral and legal rules that apply in the fight against terrorism. Immediately after September 11, when it was clear that the United States was going to focus its new war within Afghanistan, the first question that arose was how the United States was going to assess the deaths of Afghan civilians as collateral damage . A second, major set of legal and ethical issues developed around the Bush administration's declaration that those captured in the war would face trial before military tribunals. And as the major campaigns of the war have come to a close, the celebrated issue has become the present and future legal status of the quite different fighters, supporters, and operatives of al-Qaeda and the former Taliban government who are in U. S .custody.

Legal and Ethical Issues of Collecting and Using Online Hospitality Data

2021 ◽  
pp. 193896552110404
Author(s):  
Betsy Stringam ◽  
John H. Gerdes ◽  
Chris K. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
District Court ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
Legal And Ethical Issues

In “Web Scraping for Hospitality Research: Overview, Opportunities, and Implications,” Han and Anderson present the tools and methods for collecting online data through data scraping. Although the article describes in detail the processes for gathering data, and presented recent court rulings that allow data scraping in the United States, it did not adequately address the ethical collection of online data. The internet has opened up new opportunities to research interesting questions and to collect data much faster than has been possible in the past. The emergence of online databases and social media sites enables new lines of research while at the same time introducing new ethical questions for both researchers and institutional research boards (IRBs). Using web-based data for research is not new. However, as Han and Anderson point out, a 2019 ruling ( HiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corporation, appeal from the United States District Court) has redefined what is legal in online data collection. In the following, we highlight some of the key legal and ethical issues around the use of scraped data for academic research with the intent of ensuring researchers, reviewers, and editors are cognizant of some of these (evolving) issues.

Thinking About Scots Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rodger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

‘A Routh O’ Auld Nick-Nackets’ – the antiquarian collection of John Rae

2015 ◽  
Vol 36-37 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-183
Author(s):  
Paul Taylor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Case ◽  
National Museums ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

John Rae, a Scottish antiquarian collector and spirit merchant, played a highly prominent role in the local natural history societies and exhibitions of nineteenth-century Aberdeen. While he modestly described his collection of archaeological lithics and other artefacts, principally drawn from Aberdeenshire but including some items from as far afield as the United States, as a mere ‘routh o’ auld nick-nackets' (abundance of old knick-knacks), a contemporary singled it out as ‘the best known in private hands' (Daily Free Press 4/5/91). After Rae's death, Glasgow Museums, National Museums Scotland, the University of Aberdeen Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, as well as numerous individual private collectors, purchased items from the collection. Making use of historical and archive materials to explore the individual biography of Rae and his collection, this article examines how Rae's collecting and other antiquarian activities represent and mirror wider developments in both the ‘amateur’ antiquarianism carried out by Rae and his fellow collectors for reasons of self-improvement and moral education, and the ‘professional’ antiquarianism of the museums which purchased his artefacts. Considered in its wider nineteenth-century context, this is a representative case study of the early development of archaeology in the wider intellectual, scientific and social context of the era.

Byzantine-period lamps from Antioch-on-the-Orontes and its hinterland

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ani Eblighatian
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Byzantine Period ◽  
The University ◽  
Roman Syria

The paper is an off-shoot of the author's PhD project on lamps from Roman Syria (at the University of Geneva in Switzerland), centered mainly on the collection preserved at the Art Museum of Princeton University in the United States. One of the outcomes of the research is a review of parallels from archaeological sites and museum collections and despite the incomplete documentation i most cases, much new insight could be gleaned, for the author's doctoral research and for other issues related to lychnological studies. The present paper collects the data on oil lamps from byzantine layers excavated in 1932–1939 at Antioch-on-the-Orontes and at sites in its vicinity (published only in part so far) and considers the finds in their archaeological context.

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