Product Description: ''Transparency' has multiple, contested meanings. This broad-ranging volume accepts that complexity and thoughtfully contrasts alternative views through conceptual pieces, country cases, and assessments of policies--such as freedom of information laws, whistleblower protections, financial disclosure, and participatory policymaking procedures...read more

Product Description: This authoritative volume guides you in practicing before the Merit Systems Protection Board and helps you understand the intricacies of the Civil Service Reform Act. It describes the organization and structure of the Board and sets out the rules of practice before it, including the recovery of attorney's fees and the enforcement of Board decisions...read more

Product Description: This documentary supplement contains official documents from Anderson v. Cryovac, the toxic tort case portrayed in Jonathan Harr's bestseller, A Civil Action. Use the supplement in conjunction with Harr's book and any first-year civil procedure casebook or as the text for an advanced litigation class...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume contains articles examining freedom of information statutes, including those protecting government employees who expose official misconduct. Using United States laws as examples, the articles explore the relationship of these laws to administrative and constitutional theory in the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This documentary supplement contains official documents from Anderson v. Cryovac, the toxic tort case portrayed in Jonathan Harr's bestseller, A Civil Action. Use the supplement in conjunction with Harr's book and any first-year civil procedure casebook or as the text for an advanced litigation class...read more