title: Research, ethics committees and legal issues.
abstract: Who should be publicly authorised to consider legal issues in research? This paper argues that public policy should authorise ethics committees to consider legal issues about their own actions regarding particular research proposals; and that it should not authorise them to consider legal issues regarding the actions of their applicants, or the actions of third parties.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Otago, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moore
mesh_terms: D026724:Ethical Review / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D028744:Ethics Committees, Research / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D015337:Multicenter Studies as Topic; D009520:New Zealand; D011640:Public Policy