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The Secrets of Law explores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy. Taking a close look at the opacity built into legal and governance processes, it explores the ways law produces zones of secrecy, the relation between secrecy and justice, and how we understand the inscrutability of law's processes.The first half of the work examines the role of secrecy in contemporary political and legal practices-including the question of transparency in democratic processes during the Bush Administration, the principle of public justice in England's response to the war on te

Law and secrecy. --- Law in literature. --- Secrecy in literature. --- Secrecy and law --- Secrecy --- Law and secrecy --- Law in literature --- Secrecy in literature --- E-books

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This report provides an in-depth, evidence-based analysis of open government initiatives and the challenges countries face in implementing and co-ordinating them. It also explores new trends in OECD member countries as well as a selection of countries from Latin America, MENA and South East Asia regions. Based on the 2015 Survey on Open Government and Citizen Participation in the Policy Cycle, the report identifies future areas of work, including the effort to mobilise and engage all branches and all levels of government in order to move from open governments to open states; how open government principles and practices can help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals; the role of the Media to create an enabling environment for open government initiatives to thrive; and the growing importance of subnational institutions to implement successful open government reforms.

Government information. --- Official secrets. --- Freedom of information. --- Freedom of information --- Information, Freedom of --- Liberty of information --- Right to know --- Civil rights --- Freedom of speech --- Intellectual freedom --- Telecommunication --- Disclosing official secrets --- Government secrecy --- Secrecy in government --- Secrets, Official --- Secrets of state --- Confidential communications --- Criminal law --- Government and the press --- Government information --- Ministerial responsibility --- Secrecy --- Information, Government --- Public records --- Law and legislation

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Secrecy is endemic within organizations, woven into the fabric of our lives at work. Yet, until now, we've had an all-too-limited understanding of this powerful organizational force. Secrecy is a part of work, and keeping secrets is a form of work. But also, secrecy creates a social order—a hidden architecture within our organizations. Drawing on previously overlooked texts, as well as well-known classics, Jana Costas and Christopher Grey identify three forms of secrecy: formal secrecy, as we see in the case of trade and state secrets based on law and regulation; informal secrecy based on networks and trust; and public or open secrecy, where what is known goes undiscussed. Animated with evocative examples from scholarship, current events, and works of fiction, this framework presents a bold reimagining of organizational life.

Organizational behavior. --- Secrecy --- Concealment --- Privacy --- Hiding places --- Behavior in organizations --- Management --- Organization --- Psychology, Industrial --- Social psychology --- Social aspects. --- Organizational behavior --- Social aspects --- E-books

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This Report was prepared by the Committee on Fiscal Affairs to consider ways to improve international co-operation with respect to the exchange of information in the possession of banks and other financial institutions for tax purposes.

Confidential communications -- Banking. --- Tax administration and procedure. --- Taxation. --- Confidential communications --- Tax administration and procedure --- Law, Politics & Government --- Law, General & Comparative --- Banking --- Tax practice --- Tax procedure --- Bank secrecy --- Banks and banking --- Banking. --- Taxation --- Tax collection --- Financial disclosure --- Banques --- Impôt --- Divulgation financière --- International cooperation --- Secret professionnel --- Recouvrement --- Coopération internationale

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This paper reviews the literature that explores the drivers and effects of financial secrecy on emerging economies. It shows that most of the research on financial secrecy has been focused on issues of tax avoidance, neglecting the problems of institutional arbitrage that go beyond taxation issues. The paper discusses the limits of the institutionalist paradigm that treats businesses solely as rule-takers and calls for more attention to business agency and responsibility. Discussions about corporate social responsibility in emerging economies should incorporate thinking about the potential role that businesses, and especially big corporations, could play in promoting more effective institutions at home. Further research is needed to understand the political and institutional effects of global financial secrecy at the domestic level. The paper suggests some promising avenues for future research as well as new items to be included on the policy-making agenda in relation to financial secrecy.

Corporate Social Responsibility --- E-Finance and E-Security --- Emerging Market Economies --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Financial Flows --- Financial Regulation --- Financial Regulation and Supervision --- Financial Secrecy --- Financial Technology --- Information and Communication Technologies --- Information Security and Privacy --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Public Sector Economics --- Tax Evasion --- Taxation and Subsidies