Description
The Ethics of Whistleblowing
Routledge Focus on Philosophy Series
Author: Boot Eric R.
Language: EnglishSubjects for The Ethics of Whistleblowing:
Keywords
USA Freedom Act; CIA’s Interrogation; CIA’s Action; Pro Tanto Wrongful; Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; Pro Tanto Obligation; Unauthorized Disclosures; Pro Tanto; Promissory Obligation; Ultimum Remedium; Whistleblower Protection Law; Public Interest Condition; Government Wrongdoing; Whistleblower Protection Legislation; Independent Oversight Body; Civic Account; Snowden’s Disclosures; OLC Lawyer; Collective Wrongdoing; Intentional Participation; ECtHR’s Case Law; Role Obligations; Potential Whistleblowers; Comprehensive Moral Theory; Civil Disobedience
Publication date: 05-2023
· 13.8x21.6 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 05-2019
· 13.8x21.6 cm · Hardback
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Following the enormous political, legal, and media interest that has surrounded high profile cases of whistleblowing, such as Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, the fundamental ethical questions surrounding whistleblowing have often been obscured. In this fascinating book Eric Boot examines the ethical issues at stake in whistleblowing.
Can the disclosure of classified government documents ever be justified? If so, how? Why does it require justification in the first place? Can there ever be a duty to blow the whistle? When is breaking the law justified?
On a more practical level, this book also considers the various whistleblower protection documents and finds them often lacking in consistency and clarity, before providing an argument for a plausible "public interest" defense for whistleblowers.
1. Introduction 2. A pro tanto wrong 3. The public interest and the justification of whistleblowing 4. Possible legal defenses for justified whistleblowing (1): A right to whistleblowing? 5. Possible legal defenses for justified whistleblowing (2): A public interest defense 6. Obligatory whistleblowing. Index
Eric R. Boot is a Lecturer at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He is also the author of Human Duties and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse (2017).
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