Foreword: Symposium on censorship and institutional review boards

Northwestern University Law Review

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 399-403

  Lindgren, James ^a   Murashko, Dennis ^a   Ford, Matthew R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (11)

1. See Philip Hamburger & James Lindgren, Censorship and Institutional Review Boards, Conference Schedule, http://irbinfo.blogspot.com/ (last visited Mar. 7, 2007). Bernard A. Schwetz, Director of the Office for Human Research Protections, was invited but declined to participate.
2. See Stanley Milgram, Behavioral Study of Obedience, 67 J. ABNORMAL & Soc. PSYCHOL. 371 (1963).
3. Caroline Borge, Bask Instincts: The Science of Evil; 'Primetime ' Re-Creates a Famous Experiment to Understand How Ordinary People Can Perform Unthinkable Acts, ABC NEWS, Jan. 3, 2007, available at http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/print?id=2765416.
4. Adam Liptak & Janet Roberts, Tilting the Scales? Campaign Cash Mirrors a High Court's Rulings, N.Y. TIMES, Oct. 1, 2006, at Al.
5. Admittedly, American courts have not yet settled just how the First Amendment's original prohibition against governments requiring permission before speaking or publishing might affect the federal ethical regulation of research that is not itself federally funded. The exchange between James Weinstein and Philip Hamburger that follows offers doctrinal and normative analyses of this very issue. See James Weinstein, Institutional Review Boards and the Constitution, 101 Nw. U. L. REV. 493 (2007);
6. Philip Hamburger, Two-Dimensional Doctrine and Three-Dimensional Law: A Response to Professor Weinstein, 101 Nw. U. L. REV. 563 (2007);
7. James Weinstein, The Dimensions of Constitutional Analysis: A Reply to Professor Hamburger, 101 NW. U. L. REV. 569 (2007).
8. See THE BELMONT REPORT: ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS OF RESEARCH, REPORT OF THE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS OF BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH, 44 Fed. Reg. 23,192 (Apr. 18,1979).
9. KALVEN COMMITTEE: REPORT ON THE UNIVERSITY'S ROLE IN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ACTION (1967), available at http://www.uchicago.edu/docs/ policies/provostoffice/kalverpt.pdf.
10. JONATHAN RAUCH, KINDLY INQUISITORS: THE NEW ATTACKS ON FREE THOUGHT 150(1993).
11. Id. at 75. Not surprisingly, this sanguine view of how science progresses is not universally held. Sometimes social science diverges or gets more confused. See generally CHARLES E. LINDBLOM & DAVID K. COHEN, USABLE KNOWLEDGE: SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SOCIAL PROBLEM SOLVING (1979).