Public standards, ethics and entrapment

Invitation to the conference

Public standards, ethics and entrapment

Time: 09:00 - 16:30 / 19 May 2016  

Venue: University of Liverpool, Foresight Centre (Block J)

Organizer (contact for registration): Dr. Stephen McLeod ([email protected]), Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool

What ethically acceptable measures can be used to monitor, promote and enforce ethical standards in public life: in particular, does any kind of entrapment have an ethically permissible role to play? This is the focus of this interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited speakers from academia, law, and the media and University of Liverpool speakers from Communication and Media, Law, Philosophy, Politics, and Sociology and Social Policy.

Confirmed invited speakers:

Charlotte Harris (Partner, Kingsley Napley LLP).

Eamonn O'Neill (Lecturer in Journalism, University of Strathclyde).

Mark Philp (Professor of History, University of Warwick).

Tom Porter (Commissioning Editor, Channel 4)

Further information can be found at https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/events/event/?eventid=82238