The Oxford Project: A Regulator Responds II
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
An "ethical infrastructure" is an essential precondition for building trust and integrity.
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The Oxford Project: A Regulator Responds I
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Operationalising professional integrity necessitates a careful contextualised analysis and for the legal community this necessitates exploring the implications of commercialisation.
The Oxford Project: Arresting the Downward Spiral by Harnessing the Restraining Power of Whistle-Blowing I
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Contemporary financial markets are based on sociologies of trust, understanding how they operate necessitates gaining the intelligence provided by those insiders that can blow the whistle.
The Oxford Project: A View From the Trenches
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Saturday, May 19, 2012
In my experience most directors and executives expect their lawyers to act independently, ethically and with integrity but not as a gatekeeper.
The Oxford Project: A Political Scientist Responds
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Saturday, May 19, 2012
In lieu of designing and imposing integrity systems, we should dig deeper into understanding of the nature and dynamics of the "micro-foundations" of financial markets.
The Oxford Project: A Management Theorist Responds
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Friday, May 18, 2012
Effective measurement of regulatory performance is a science as well as an art form that forces the regulator to look for and fill in gaps in knowledge rather than facilitate groupthink.
The Oxford Project: A Corporate Law Ethicist Responds
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
For all the talk about professional values the buck has to stop somewhere and it is with an external regulator.
The Oxford Project: A Financial Planning Practitioner Responds
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Whilst ever the intent is wholesale industry change and whilst ever the goal is to change the behaviour of everyone then we cannot continue to pretend that this is professionalisation.
The Oxford Project: The Exclusivity and Exclusionary Power of Reputation
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Codes of conduct only work if the need to preserve reputation is accompanied by a genuine fear of exclusion if stated beliefs are not warranted in practice.
US Attitudes to White Collar Crime
Professor Stuart Green, of Rutgers Law School discusses a recent empirical survey he has undertaken of US moral attitudes to white collar crime and insider trading and appropriate ways to frame regulation in this light of these attitudes.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012