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1st Global Conference on Transprency Research

Rutgers University-Newark

May 19-20, 2011

 

The purpose of the conference to bring together scholars from a wide range of fields including sociology, anthropology, political science, public administration, economics, political economy, journalism, business, and law who study issues of governmental transparency. This is the first large meeting of its kind to bring together leading scholars from throughout the world to collectively advance our understanding of the impact andimplications of transparency policies that involve governments, either directly or indirectly. This includes policies on access to information held by and about governments, transparency relationships between government entities, transparency relationships between governments and private and nonprofit entities, and access to information heldby government about individuals. We are interested in learning about the effects of these policies and the processes around which they are developed and implemented. Papers and pre-formed panels are invited on any of the above issues.

Possible proposal topics include: governmental transparency at the subnational level, the ways in which governments regulate private entities, the ways in which private entities use government data, open public meetings, whistle blowing and leaks, informal document release processes, citizen demand driven transparency, the relationship between trust and transparency, the relationship between corruption and transparency, the intersection of privacy and transparency, surveillance studies, and the legal analysis of relevant laws. This list is meant to be illustrative and we look forward to receiving other relevant paper proposals.

 

Suzanne J. Piotrowski
Associate Professor
School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University-Newark

Advisory Committee

Yamini Aiyar
Senior Research Fellow and Director
Accountability Initiative Center for Policy Research, New Delhi

Bernard W. Bell
Professor of Law and Herbert Hannoch Scholar,
School of Law-Newark, Rutgers University

Eduardo Bertoni
Director
Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information -CELE-
School of Law, Palermo University, Argentina

Richard Calland
Associate Professor
Public Law Department, University of Cape Town

David Cuillier
Assistant Professor
School of Journalism, University of Arizona

Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UC Berkeley School of Information /
Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy

Jamie Horsley
Senior Research Scholar in Law; Deputy Director, The China Law Center;
and Lecturer in Law Yale Law School

Seok-Hwan Lee
Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration,
Kookmin University, Seoul

Alasdair Roberts
Co-editor, Governance; Jerome L. Rappaport Professor of Law and Public Policy
at Suffolk University Law School

Rick Snell
Senior Lecturer in Law
University of Tasmania

Jean-Patrick Villeneuve
Assistant Professor
Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration

Ben Worthy
Research Associate
University College London, The Constitution Unit