The Nature and Value of Access to Information Laws in Canada and the EU: Ideals, Practices and Perspectives

This research aims to address the rhetorical claims about transparency and access to information (ATI) by asking questions like: Why they are important, and if they are, are they worth of constitutional protection? The study engages in a doctrinal research with two dimensions, a conceptual and a nor...

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