Not exact matches
But the negative side appears especially when we are working in cutting - edge topics of research in the absence of well - established
ethical rules that
prevent conflict of interest.
This strong
ethical and moral responsibility is derivable both from the universally accepted moral principles including the widely accepted golden
rule which requires people to treat others as they wish to be treated, and international law including, but not limited to the «no harm»
rule which is a widely recognized principle of customary international law whereby a State is duty - bound to
prevent, reduce and control the risk of environmental harm to other states and a
rule agreed to by all nations in the preamble to the UNFCCC, the «polluter - pays principle» agreed to by almost all nations in the 1992 Rio Declaration, human rights law which requires nations to assure that their citizens enjoy human rights, and many other legal theories including tort law.
This strong
ethical and moral responsibility is derivable both from the universally accepted moral principles including the widely accepted golden
rule which requires people to treat others as they wish to be treated, and international law including, but not limited to: (a) the «no harm»
rule which is a widely recognized principle of customary international law whereby a State is duty - bound to
prevent, reduce and control the risk of environmental harm to other states, and a
rule agreed to by all nations in the preamble to the UNFCCC, (b) the «polluter - pays principle» agreed to by almost all nations in the 1992 Rio Declaration, (c) human rights law which requires nations to assure that their citizens enjoy human rights, and (d) many other legal theories including tort law.
There are reasons that people hire lawyers to write these sorts of ethics
rules into company codes of conduct: (1) companies realized placing the entire onus on the person who has suffered discrimination or harassment to personally prosecute their claims is absurd and good employees would seek out corporations that don't sanction such conduct; and (2) businesses understood that providing
ethical and social norms of behavior could go some distance to
preventing bad behavior.
But if what I say doesn't scare you, consider the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which has again amended the Pennsylvania
Rules of Professional Conduct, to highlight that lawyers have an
ethical duty to preserve confidentiality, which includes (obviously)
preventing cyberattacks.
In Florida, judges and candidates who want to be judges are bound by an ethics provision
preventing this situation from ever arising in the first place (eight other states with elected judges have a similar law or
ethical rule).
Recognizing the need to
prevent harm to the public from the unethical practice of law and recognizing the need to provide a clear and timely understanding of the ethics of practicing law; and further acting under its inherent power to regulate the practice of law, this court promulgates the following
rules for the purpose of making available advisory opinions on the
ethical considerations of the practice of law.