Month: August 2020

Should we question the public health benefits of abortion? Read more… Article source: https://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/african-american-women-fare-worse-with-abortion-study/13524

Transgender surgery in the United States is a kind of Wild Wild West of medicine Read more… Article source: https://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/fancy-a-vaginoplasty-think-again/13523

Why should we mourn the dead? Read more… Article source: https://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/its-about-more-than-pushing-up-daisies/13522

The gimmick provoked some controversy: “Imagine telling a child that they came from an Instagram giveaway.” Read more… Article source: https://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/free-vial-of-sperm-in-instagram-giveaway/13521

Wall Street Journal – Online Edition; 08/22/2020(AN 145265240); ISSN: 25749579Academic Search Complete

The Basel Committee has published, for consultation, an updated edition of its Principles for the Sound Management of Operational Risk: see here. In the press release accompanying the consultation, the Committee states: “…the growth of technology-related threats has increased the importance of banks’ operational resilience. The Covid-19 pandemic has made the need to address these threats…

The European Commission has published a study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance: see here. The study found that, to “some extent”, regulatory frameworks and market practices, contribute to corporate short-termism; and various options for reform our outlined.  Article source: http://corporatelawandgovernance.blogspot.com/2020/08/eu-commission-report-directors-duties.html

A copy of the Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (COVID-19) Act 2020 is now available on the electronic Irish Statute Book website: see here or here (pdf). A summary of the Act’s provisions, which include permitting the postponement of annual general meetings and the holding of certain meetings electronically, is available here. Article source: http://corporatelawandgovernance.blogspot.com/2020/08/ireland-companies-miscellaneous_21.html

Chronicle of Higher Education; 08/21/2020(AN 146016359); ISSN: 00095982Academic Search Complete

Chronicle of Higher Education; 08/21/2020(AN 146016356); ISSN: 00095982Academic Search Complete