From Canada, another FOI dispute on campus…

From our neighbors to the north comes a fresh academic freedom/FOI dispute: A prominent University of Ottawa law professor has launched a grievance against a school administrator after she agreed to release documents related to his research under the province’s freedom of information law. Professor Amir Attaran is outraged that the university would so readily [...]

Fabulous piece on global transparency, and US laggards…

Susan Crawford is a Bloomberg View columnist and a professor of law at Cardozo School of Law. She’s provided a nice look at global transparency movements here, as well as the lack of momentum in the United States: When Brazil’s government buys anything from fighter jets to a fancy villa, details are available online within 24 hours. Such [...]

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