Notes (for Bribery, Extortion, and Conflict of Interest)

1 See Richard Wasserstrom, "Lawyers as Professionals."

2 Following John Danley, "Toward a Theory of Bribery," Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 2, no. 3 (spring 1983).

3 See Danley (op. cit.): "To bribe someone is to offer something of value to another with the intent of inducing an action that is contrary to the positional duties of the office or role of that other person."

4 Reference forthcoming.

5 See Donagan on moral dilemmas.


Richard Lee, rlee@comp.uark.edu, last modified: 15 July 1998