With the proliferation of information and communication technologies come needs for new or adjusted regulation in the various legal fields. The predominant area affected by new regulation has been the right to privacy and personal data protection. Recently, another area of law has gained increasing importance in light of new regulatory attempts: the freedom of...
Category: <span>Panel Paper</span>
TRANSPARENCY AND PARTICIPATION IN CHINA‘S LOCAL GOVERNANCE
Reinforcing local governance has been a new focus of Chinese political reform. While the intellectual and institutional legacies of administrative law reform proposed by the central government have set tones of the overall reforms, local experimentalism constituted the main practice in the past years and is also being transformed into a new order of China‘s...
PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL OF EXECUTIVE POWER: TRACING THE GAPS OF INFORMATION
This panel centres on the role of information in the parliamentary control of executive power. It maps and analyses the challenges of information asymmetries in security and finance as two fields where executive privileges predominate. Despite a vast literature on issues of parliamentary control, the specific features and consequences of gaps of information have been...