Freedom of Information: Local Government and Accountability

by Vaughn,Robert G.

• ISBN13: 9780754620815
• ISBN10: 0754620816
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume examines the practical and theoretical justification for freedom laws, particularly the United States Federal Freedom of Information Act which gives any person access to documents and records of federal agencies. In this regard, the volume will consider as well objections to these laws. The volume will explore topics raised by adoption of freedom of information principles outside the United States.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Series Preface	ix
Introduction	xi
`The Reform of the American Administrative Process: The Contemporary Debate', Wisconsin Law Review, pp. 385--442	1	(58)
Thomas O. Sargentich
`How the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 1996 Update Public Access for the Information Age', Administrative Law Review, 50, pp. 421--58	59	(38)
Michael E. Tankersley
`Expanding the Purpose of Federal Records Access: New Private Entitlement or New Threat to Privacy?', Administrative Law Review, 50, pp. 371--89	97	(20)
James T. O'Reilly
`The Freedom of Information Act Has No Clothes', Regulation: AEI Journal on Government and Society, 14, pp. 15--19	117	(6)
Antonin Scalia
`A Theory of Law and Information: Copyright, Spleens, Blackmail, and Insider Trading', California Law Review, 80, pp. 1413--540	123	(128)
James Boyle
`The Trade Secret Status of Health and Safety Testing Information: Reforming Agency Disclosure Policies', Harvard Law Review, 93, pp. 837--88	251	(52)
Thomas O. McGarity
Sidney A. Shapiro
`The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989: Foundation for the Modern Law of Employment Dissent', Administrative Law Review, 51, pp. 531--79	303	(50)
Thomas M. Devine
`Freedom of Information: Will Blair be Able to Break the Walls of Secrecy in Britain?', American University International Law Review, 13, pp. 471--551	353	(82)
Debra L. Silverman
Name Index	435