This book draws upon legal expertise to critically analyse issues of regulation, conduct and ethics at the important interface between scientific research, regulatory and legal environments. In so doing it aims to contribute important additional perspectives to the existing literature.

Mark Davies is a reader in law at the University of Sussex, UK. He has written widely in the fields of professional negligence, regulation and liability.

1. Introduction and definitions 2. The centrality of trust 3. Categories of scientific misconduct 4. Research conduct and professional regulation 5. Educating for ethical behaviour 6. Institutional regulation 7. Regulation and the judicial process 8. New approaches to matters of research integrity and regulation 9. Conclusions