By Professor Nancy Rapoport

Dear Readers:

In addition to wishing all of you a healthy and happy New Year, this season is also one in which we can show our gratitude for our many blessings. I’m grateful, of course, for family and friends, for a job that I love, and for the opportunity to be able to chat with all of you from afar about ethics issues.

And this month, I’m grateful for the fact that I have a question (well, a series of questions) to answer:

To what extent must . . .

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