Right to Know and Information Disclosure Law

Author: Liu Jie
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: This series aims to connect legal professionals, focusing on the interaction between law and society, to exchange legal information, communicate legal wisdom; explore legal principles, question legal values; uphold social conscience, promote the development of the rule of law. This book is a specialized study on the right to know and the law of information disclosure. The author primarily employs normative research, comparative research, and empirical research methods to define relevant basic concepts of the law of information disclosure; explores three different levels of rights—natural rights, moral rights, and legal rights—and thereby defines the concept of the right to know; classifies the right to know into broad and narrow definitions, as well as the right to know and the right to know freedom; empirically analyzes the relationship between the right to know and other rights; reveals the constitutional status of the right to know in the United States, Japan, and China; examines the legislative background, legislative process, and main systems of the right to know in the United States and Japan; investigates the legislative environment of China's law of information disclosure; and finally discusses the main systems of China's law of information disclosure. This book is suitable for students and faculty of law universities and research institutions, as well as legal practitioners, and is also suitable for other readers interested in law.