Institutional Corruption

Former Fellow, Richard W. Painter, with Laurence H. Tribe, Norman L. Eisen & Joshua Matz in The Atlantic on "Trump's Ethics Train Wreck"

January 18, 2017

Former Fellow, Richard W. Painter, Laurence H. Tribe, Norman L. Eisen, and Joshua Matz in The Atlantic today give a point-by-point rebuttal of Trump's lawyers' plans to address conflicts of interest: "The president-elect’s lawyers have explained why they don’t think he’ll violate the Constitution’s foreign emoluments clause—but their arguments fall apart under closer scrutiny."... Read more about Former Fellow, Richard W. Painter, with Laurence H. Tribe, Norman L. Eisen & Joshua Matz in The Atlantic on "Trump's Ethics Train Wreck"

Former Fellow, Susannah Rose, in JAMA Internal Medicine on Advocacy Organizations, Industry Funding, and Conflicts of Interest

January 17, 2017

In research just published in the January 17 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine, a team of researchers led by Cleveland Clinic Bioethicist Susannah Rose, Ph.D., found that 67 percent receive funding from for-profit companies, with 12 percent receiving over half of their funding from industry. Read full article...

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Former Fellow, Richard Painter, and Norman Eisen in NYT OpEd "The White House Rule: No Tax Returns, No Job"

October 6, 2016

Former Center Lab Fellow and professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, Richard W. Painter, and Norman Eisen, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, examine the ethical issues surrounding a presidential nominee's taxes and conclude: "No presidential nominee with Mr. Trump’s tax situation, his years of undisclosed tax returns, and his attitude toward paying taxes could have been approved by the Senate. Indeed, no president would have dared...

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Former Fellow Brooke Williams and Eric Lipton in NYT on the Role of Think Tanks in Government

August 8, 2016

In a report first published online in the NYT on Sunday, August 7, reporters Brooke Williams and Eric Lipton examine the unique status and influence that think tanks have in government policy debates. A version of this article appears in print on August 8, 2016, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: "Scholarship or Business? Think Tanks Blur the Line." Read the full story...

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Former Lab Fellow Richard Painter publishes book on campaign finance reform

January 26, 2016

“Taxation Only with Representation: The Conservative Conscience and Campaign Finance Reform” by Richard W. Painter

Author Richard Painter was President George W. Bush’s chief White House ethics lawyer, and he is now a law professor at the University of Minnesota. He wrote the book throughout 2014 and 2015 with the financial support of a full year residential fellowship from Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. 

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Former Lab Fellow Jennifer Miller's Good Pharma Scorecard

November 12, 2015

In a research article published today in BMJ Open, former Lab Fellow Jennifer E. Miller, Faculty Associate David Korn, and Joseph S. Ross examine clinical trial results disclosure by large pharmaceutical companies and conclude that it falls below legal and ethical standards. The article also introduces an annual transparency scorecard which audits...

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2015 Nov 23

Zittrain interviews Lessig: "What I Learned Running for President: The Ethics of Citizenship"

5:00pm to 6:00pm

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Harvard Law School Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall

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The Harvard Law School Library invites you to attend an interview of Professor Lawrence Lessig by Professor Jonathan Zittrain entitled, What I Learned Running for President: The Ethics of Citizenship. Professor Lessig...

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Norm Alster

Norm Alster

Alster is a graduate of Columbia College and the Columbia School of Journalism. During his fellowship year, he examined how the inordinate influence of...

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Eugen Dimant

Eugen Dimant

Postdoctoral Fellow with the Behavioral Ethics Lab and Philosophy, Politics, and Economics group at the University of Pennsylvania
Research Fellow at the Center and Laboratory for Behavioral Operations and Economics (LBOE) at the University of Texas at Dallas

Eugen's research interests center on experimental and behavioral economics with a particular focus on crime and corruption.... Read more about Eugen Dimant

Katherine Anderson

Dance Artist and Choreographer, In Noon Dance

Project: The Ethical Spectacle: Applications of Creative Grassroots Activism to the Anti-Corruption Movement

Anderson will generate and curate creative content--dance, video, site-specific installation and visual design--that responds to institutional corruption, specifically within the context of the U.S. Congress. Her project’s ultimate goal is to test new kinds of creative outreach tools as prototypes for other anti-corruption organizers.... Read more about Katherine Anderson

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