How Research Ethics Committees Act as a “Witness” to Research

Rachel Douglas-Jones, Committee as Witness, 39 Cambridge J. of Anth. 55 (2021), available at Berghahn Journals.

Edward Dove

In her recently published article in the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, Dr. Rachel Douglas-Jones, an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, investigates how research ethics committees (RECs, or IRBs as they are known in the United States and some other countries) witness research that has yet to occur. For those of us in law, “to witness” holds particular meaning. According the […]