110 Pages
by
Routledge
110 Pages
by
Routledge
110 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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Acknowledgments
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
Biography
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).
