Charles Sampford
Biographic Data
| ID | 4127832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Sampford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Sampford |
| SIGNATURE | SAMPFORD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Benefits or bribes? Ethical concerns with the potential corruption of civic obligations through community benefits schemes for wind farms
Community benefit schemes have become a common feature of new energy industries, and are especially prevalent in renewable energy developments like wind farms. These schemes arise when businesses—either under their own discretion or in compliance with policy mechanisms—establish systems to deliver in-kind and monetary goods to local communities. The schemes may be morally justified on several grounds, including compensation and distributive fairn…
Migrant health professionals’ systemic human rights vulnerabilities
This article investigates whether the methods by which states implement citizens’ human rights possess serious weaknesses for ensuring migrant health professionals’ rights. Stemming from the discipline of normative philosophy, the moral approach to human rights sees rights as implemented through multiple waves of duties delivered by state‐managed integrity systems. We argue that this otherwise comparatively reliable method can fail to deliver ade…
Looking back (and forward) 25–30 years
It is with great pleasure that I write for this special edition almost exactly 25 years from the day the Griffith Law Review (GLR) was launched, in early December 1992 by Hon Leneen Forde, the firs
National Exams as a Tool for Improving Standards
Can a national exam contribute to raising service standards in a particular sector – one with quasi-professional elements and aspirations? We explore this question in the specific context of financial advisers and planners in contemporary Australia and the regulation efforts and professionalisation processes occurring therein. Notwithstanding this focus, we inform the discussion by considering wider uses of the exam in other jurisdictions, and al…
Employed Professionals’ Ethical Responsibilities in Public Service and Private Enterprise
Traditionally, most professionals operated as sole practitioners or in small partnerships. This work environment affected professions' images of themselves and the way their ethics was conceived and written. But the locus of practice has changed and is continuing to change. Though the common image of professionals remains of sole practitioners serving individual clients on a one-toone basis, many of the most senior professionals work within large…
Measuring Corruption
Conceptualizing Personal and Institutional Integrity
In this paper, we present a conceptual and terminological system – what we term the ‘Comprehensive Integrity Framework’ – capable of applying to both personal and institutional integrity, and to different levels of institutions (including sub-institutions and institutional complexes). We distinguish between three sorts of integrity: consistency-integrity (whether the agent’s acts accord with her claimed values); coherence-integrity (whether the a…
Shifting Global Powers and International Law
Integrity Reform in Developing Countries
National Integrity Systems have been developed to assist in governance reform. This article outlines the development of such an assessment, and describes a specific project—the National Integrity System of Georgia. Applying systems methodology and learning, especially within developing countries, may assist an integrity-driven approach toward improved public integrity and social responsibility
Fractured International Environmental Governance and the Potential Role of the Commonwealth in Biodiversity and Climate Change
This paper begins by examining the reasons behind most failures of governance, including fault lines in institutional and professional specialisation, and in ideology. These three, forever competing within and between themselves, frustrate attempts to find solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges. Not least among these are environmental challenges, where preferences and priorities that are geographically, professionally or ideolo…
Re‐Conceiving the Good Life – the Key to Sustainable Globalisation
Resource‐intensive, high‐carbon, Western lifestyles are frequently criticised as unsustainable and deeply unsatisfying. However, these lifestyles are still attractive to the majority of Westerners and to a high proportion of the developing world's middle classes. This paper argues that the imminent threat of catastrophic climate change constitutes an immediate political, economic and ethical challenge for citizens of the developed world that cann…
The Constitutional Power to Make War
The legal power to declare war has traditionally been a part of a
From Deep North to International Governance Exemplar
In pre-Fitzgerald Queensland, the existence of corruption was widely known but its extent and modes of operation were not fully evident. The Fitzgerald Report identified the need for reform of the structure, procedures and efficiency in public administration in Queensland. What was most striking in the Queensland reform process was that a new model for combatting corruption had been developed. Rather than rely upon a single law and a single insti…
From Greek Temple to Bird's Nest
Since the 1990s, recognition has grown that the answer to corruption–political, bureaucratic or corporate–does not lie in a single institution, let alone a single law. Rather the institutionalisation of integrity through a number of agencies, laws, practices and ethical codes is increasingly recognised as the best option for limiting corruption in many societies. This article addresses the key issue of coherence between these various institutions…
Shareholder Values , not Shareholder Value
This article rebuts the still-common assumption that managers of capitalist entities have a duty, principally or even exclusively, to maximise the monetary return to investors on their investments. It argues that this view is based on a misleadingly simplistic conception of human values and motivation. Not only is acting solely to maximise long-term shareholder value difficult, it displays, at best, banal single-mindedness and, at worst, sociopat…
Eulogy
Environmental governance for biodiversity
From Greek Temple to Bird's Nest
Since the 1990s, recognition has grown that the answer to corruption–political, bureaucratic or corporate–does not lie in a single institution, let alone a single law. Rather the institutionalisation of integrity through a number of agencies, laws, practices and ethical codes is increasingly recognised as the best option for limiting corruption in many societies. This article addresses the key issue of coherence between these various institutions…
Benefits or bribes? Ethical concerns with the potential corruption of civic obligations through community benefits schemes for wind farms
Community benefit schemes have become a common feature of new energy industries, and are especially prevalent in renewable energy developments like wind farms. These schemes arise when businesses—either under their own discretion or in compliance with policy mechanisms—establish systems to deliver in-kind and monetary goods to local communities. The schemes may be morally justified on several grounds, including compensation and distributive fairn…
Integrity Reform in Developing Countries
National Integrity Systems have been developed to assist in governance reform. This article outlines the development of such an assessment, and describes a specific project—the National Integrity System of Georgia. Applying systems methodology and learning, especially within developing countries, may assist an integrity-driven approach toward improved public integrity and social responsibility
Environmental governance for biodiversity
Migrant health professionals’ systemic human rights vulnerabilities
This article investigates whether the methods by which states implement citizens’ human rights possess serious weaknesses for ensuring migrant health professionals’ rights. Stemming from the discipline of normative philosophy, the moral approach to human rights sees rights as implemented through multiple waves of duties delivered by state‐managed integrity systems. We argue that this otherwise comparatively reliable method can fail to deliver ade…
Environmental governance for biodiversity
Shareholder Values , not Shareholder Value
This article rebuts the still-common assumption that managers of capitalist entities have a duty, principally or even exclusively, to maximise the monetary return to investors on their investments. It argues that this view is based on a misleadingly simplistic conception of human values and motivation. Not only is acting solely to maximise long-term shareholder value difficult, it displays, at best, banal single-mindedness and, at worst, sociopat…
Eulogy
From Greek Temple to Bird's Nest
Since the 1990s, recognition has grown that the answer to corruption–political, bureaucratic or corporate–does not lie in a single institution, let alone a single law. Rather the institutionalisation of integrity through a number of agencies, laws, practices and ethical codes is increasingly recognised as the best option for limiting corruption in many societies. This article addresses the key issue of coherence between these various institutions…
The Constitutional Power to Make War
The legal power to declare war has traditionally been a part of a
From Deep North to International Governance Exemplar
In pre-Fitzgerald Queensland, the existence of corruption was widely known but its extent and modes of operation were not fully evident. The Fitzgerald Report identified the need for reform of the structure, procedures and efficiency in public administration in Queensland. What was most striking in the Queensland reform process was that a new model for combatting corruption had been developed. Rather than rely upon a single law and a single insti…
Re‐Conceiving the Good Life – the Key to Sustainable Globalisation
Resource‐intensive, high‐carbon, Western lifestyles are frequently criticised as unsustainable and deeply unsatisfying. However, these lifestyles are still attractive to the majority of Westerners and to a high proportion of the developing world's middle classes. This paper argues that the imminent threat of catastrophic climate change constitutes an immediate political, economic and ethical challenge for citizens of the developed world that cann…
Fractured International Environmental Governance and the Potential Role of the Commonwealth in Biodiversity and Climate Change
This paper begins by examining the reasons behind most failures of governance, including fault lines in institutional and professional specialisation, and in ideology. These three, forever competing within and between themselves, frustrate attempts to find solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges. Not least among these are environmental challenges, where preferences and priorities that are geographically, professionally or ideolo…
Shifting Global Powers and International Law
Integrity Reform in Developing Countries
National Integrity Systems have been developed to assist in governance reform. This article outlines the development of such an assessment, and describes a specific project—the National Integrity System of Georgia. Applying systems methodology and learning, especially within developing countries, may assist an integrity-driven approach toward improved public integrity and social responsibility
Conceptualizing Personal and Institutional Integrity
In this paper, we present a conceptual and terminological system – what we term the ‘Comprehensive Integrity Framework’ – capable of applying to both personal and institutional integrity, and to different levels of institutions (including sub-institutions and institutional complexes). We distinguish between three sorts of integrity: consistency-integrity (whether the agent’s acts accord with her claimed values); coherence-integrity (whether the a…
Measuring Corruption
Looking back (and forward) 25–30 years
It is with great pleasure that I write for this special edition almost exactly 25 years from the day the Griffith Law Review (GLR) was launched, in early December 1992 by Hon Leneen Forde, the firs
National Exams as a Tool for Improving Standards
Can a national exam contribute to raising service standards in a particular sector – one with quasi-professional elements and aspirations? We explore this question in the specific context of financial advisers and planners in contemporary Australia and the regulation efforts and professionalisation processes occurring therein. Notwithstanding this focus, we inform the discussion by considering wider uses of the exam in other jurisdictions, and al…
Employed Professionals’ Ethical Responsibilities in Public Service and Private Enterprise
Traditionally, most professionals operated as sole practitioners or in small partnerships. This work environment affected professions' images of themselves and the way their ethics was conceived and written. But the locus of practice has changed and is continuing to change. Though the common image of professionals remains of sole practitioners serving individual clients on a one-toone basis, many of the most senior professionals work within large…
Migrant health professionals’ systemic human rights vulnerabilities
This article investigates whether the methods by which states implement citizens’ human rights possess serious weaknesses for ensuring migrant health professionals’ rights. Stemming from the discipline of normative philosophy, the moral approach to human rights sees rights as implemented through multiple waves of duties delivered by state‐managed integrity systems. We argue that this otherwise comparatively reliable method can fail to deliver ade…
Benefits or bribes? Ethical concerns with the potential corruption of civic obligations through community benefits schemes for wind farms
Community benefit schemes have become a common feature of new energy industries, and are especially prevalent in renewable energy developments like wind farms. These schemes arise when businesses—either under their own discretion or in compliance with policy mechanisms—establish systems to deliver in-kind and monetary goods to local communities. The schemes may be morally justified on several grounds, including compensation and distributive fairn…
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