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Transparency
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Media Law Prof Blog
Wikileaks Good? Wikileaks Bad? Maybe Not So Clear
Daniel Drezner on Why Wikileaks is Bad for Scholars (via the Chronicle of Higher Education). But Timothy Garton-Ash likes the access to history.
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
FTC Enforces Against Obscure Privacy Disclosures in New Consent Decree
The FTC has entered into another consent decree arising out of privacy disclosures buried in a privacy policy, building on last year's enforcement in the Sears case. The requirement of…
Legal Profession Blog
Let The Sunshine In
From the web page of the Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board:Over the last decade there has been a steady progression toward greater public access to information in the disciplinary system. The Disciplinary…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Donnelly Publishes Critique of IRS Governance Oversight through Form 990
Karen Donnelly (UMKC, J.D. 2010) has published Comment, Good Governance: Has the IRS Usurped the Business Judgment of Tax-Exempt Organizations in the Name of Transparency and Accountability?, 79 UMKC L.…
Legal Skills Prof Blog
The sh#t (maybe) gets real: ABA considers mandatory law grad salary transparency from schools
If a person dies from smoking in 2010, he won't get my sympathy. That person took the risk despite (more than) adequate warnings. Likewise, if a prospective law student knows…
Global Regulatory Enforcement Law Blog
Got Grants? Got Subgrantees? Soon You May Have to Report Them.
This post was also written by Joelle E.K. Laszlo. Federal grant awardees are about to join contractors in the transparent government revolution. Beginning in November, awardees of prime grants valued…
Health Industry Washington Watch
New HHS Web Site Seeks to Boost Insurance Market Transparency
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has added price estimates for private health insurance policies on its consumer website in an effort to make health insurance market data more…
The Faculty Lounge
More on the FISA Rules of Procedure (Part 3)
Ellen Nakashima and Spencer S. Hsu have an article in The Washington Post on the new FISA rules of procedure which I wrote about here and here. Their take: ...the…
The Faculty Lounge
More on the FISC Rules of Procedure
In a prior post I discussed a change to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's Rules of Procedure. Marc Ambinder, writing at The Atlantic and Steven Aftergood at Secrecy News both…
Corporate and Securities Law
CFTC to Publish All Outside Meetings Regarding Implementation of Dodd-Frank