Word: moral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some even more intensive concerns, both moral and academic, have invaded Harvard's graduate schools and advanced-study centers. Last year a mini scandal at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies raised new questions about whether Government funding of university research might encroach on academic freedom. The center's director, Professor Nadav Safran, broke university policy by planning a conference on Islamic Fundamentalism without first notifying Harvard or participants that it had CIA underwriting, and further offended colleagues by publishing a book on Saudi Arabia that contained no acknowledgement of similar financing. Safran has since resigned as director. "These...
...find in my work with Afro-American women the resources that bring moral wisdom and strength that we all need," said Welch, who is noted for her study of Black American women...
...proposals include a greater emphasis on teaching the art of negotioation. She also advocated fostering moral debate, in response to the increased role of economics in the law, which seeks to look dispassionately at the effects of the law. Her final proposal was that there should be more study of comparitive law to "show that there are other models for legal systems, other than...
Heymann defined the ideal of "professionalism" for lawyers as an obligation to maintain scrupulous moral standards for themselves and their colleagues. He called on lawyers to use their profession's unusual freedom and power to apply ethical considerations to practical issues...
Jamie S. Gorelick '72, a member of the small firm of Miller, Cassidy, Larroca and Lewin, said the sheer size of the nation's most venerated firms prevented their members from sharing political and moral goals and discouraged cooperation. She said this characteristic undermined the principle that bans law firms from representing two clients with conflicting interests, and discouraged unpaid public-interest work...