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Yes, There Is Such A Thing As Too Much Transparency, Sam F. Halabi
Yes, There Is Such A Thing As Too Much Transparency, Sam F. Halabi
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In a world where secret meetings and resulting agreements seem particularly suspect, it might be tempting to think that the growing norm of transparency might keep the world a more harmonious place. Woodrow Wilson famously extolled the virtues of "open covenants of peace, openly arrived at...." Ashley Deeks, in her recent article, A (Qualified) Defense of Secret Agreements, asks us to think again of this norm and dictum. Her article is one I like a lot, and I hope others active in the study and shaping of international law and international relations do as well.
U.S. Business: Tort Liability For The Transnational Republisher Of Leaked Corporate Secrets, Richard J. Peltz-Steele
U.S. Business: Tort Liability For The Transnational Republisher Of Leaked Corporate Secrets, Richard J. Peltz-Steele
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Wikileaks, the web enterprise responsible for the unprecedented publication of hundreds of thousands of classified government records, is reshaping fundamental notions of the freedom of information. Meanwhile more than half of records held by Wikileaks are from the private sector, and the organization has promised blockbuster revelations about major commercial players such as big banks and oil companies. This paper examines the potential liability under U.S. business-tort law for Wikileaks as a transnational republisher of leaked corporate secrets. The paper examines the paradigm for criminal liability under the Espionage Act to imagine a construct of civil liability for tortious interference …