Abstract: Based on the orientation of social justice, the relationship between social justice and archive professional ethics is discussed. Maintaining justice is only the embodiment of the emergency function of archives in the outbreak of social contradictions. From the three dimensions of archives work, archives personnel and archives itself, maintaining justice is only a supplement to archive professional ethics. Maintaining justice is a positive value pursuit of archives. Procedural justice and archive content are the two lines of defense for safeguarding justice.

Key words: Social justice, professional ethics, procedural justice, archives true