A Note on Civil Disobedience and Professional Ethics Codes

W. Bede Mitchell

doi:10.3172/JIE.22.2.61

A Note on Civil Disobedience and Professional Ethics Codes

W. Bede Mitchell

Emeriti, Retired & In Memoriam (Libraries)

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Abstract

In her exemplary book The Ethical Archivist , Elena S. Danielson devotes a chapter to professional ethics codes and points out that “[m]any informed observers do not feel that complying with the law has any place in a statement on ethics since laws enforce existing power relationships, which may be unfair.” (p.45) I will argue that including civil disobedience principles in ethics codes may be preferable to rejecting legal compliance as a consideration.

Original language	American English
Journal	Journal of Information Ethics
Volume	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3172/JIE.22.2.61
State	Published - Jan 1 2013

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Higher Education
Library and Information Science

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Civil disobedience
Ethics

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