In response to the corporate scandals of the 1990s, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 began requiring public companies to disclose whether they have adopted a code of ethics. While compliance is ...

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday announced the schedule for Assembly elections in four states – West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Assam--along with the Union Territory of Puducherry ...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to adopt a written code of ethics is a 50-year-old story that has recently gotten lots of fresh attention — for good reasons attributable to the justices’ own poor ...

Independent Sector, a coalition of charities and foundations, has issued its first official model code of ethics for nonprofit groups to follow, the initial step in what the organization’s president ...

Finally, somebody has taken a try at writing a Supreme Court ethics code, though not the court itself. The justices reportedly have discussed the subject but apparently have not reached any agreement ...

How does a country conduct free and fair elections in a multi-party system where one party controls the government and, hence, the levers of power? And how does it ensure that bitter electioneering ...

The Supreme Court is on fire. Public support for the court is at an all-time low. Public suspicion that the high court is governed less by law than by ideological impulse is at an all-time high. This ...

Although it is welcome and overdue that the Supreme Court finally adopted an ethics code for its justices on Monday, the approach is seriously flawed in that it includes no enforcement mechanism.

Opposition parties, academics and activists have urged the Election Commission of India to act on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s April 18 address, alleging a violation of the Model Code of Conduct.