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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

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Le secret ministériel réfère à l’ensemble des règles de nature politique et juridique qui protègent la confidentialité du processus décisionnel collectif au plus haut niveau du pouvoir exécutif de l’État, c’est-à-dire le Conseil des ministres ou le Cabinet. Dans le contexte contemporain où la transparence et la responsabilité gouvernementales sont des valeurs fondamentales, la légitimité du secret ministériel est de plus en plus controversée. Ce premier ouvrage compréhensif sur la question vise à défendre le secret ministériel en démontrant qu’il s’agit d’une doctrine essentielle au bon fonctionnement du système de gouvernement responsable. Néanmoins, il critique le caractère excessif des dispositions législatives qui protègent le secret ministériel à l’ordre fédéral au Canada au motif qu’elles violent le principe de la primauté du droit. Sur la base d’une analyse comparée des règles applicables à l’ordre provincial au Canada ainsi qu’au Royaume-Uni, en Australie et en Nouvelle-Zélande, il propose des réformes qui permettraient d’atteindre un meilleur équilibre entre la confidentialité et la transparence gouvernementales. Récipiendaire du second prix du Prix Walter Owen 2020 Mention honorable du Concours juridique 2021 de la Fondation du Barreau du Québec

Law and secrecy. --- Secrecy and law --- Secrecy --- Confidentialité du processus décisionnel, Conseil des ministres, État, Imputabilité, Secret ministériel, Transparence gouvernementale.

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Humanity is struggling with ever larger amounts of data, which is not only annoying but also an existential problem in the information society. Remarkably, the law has so far hardly addressed this problem of excessive information. This essay compiles the legal regulations that exist at certain points. Legal approaches to solving the abundance of information are formulated, but warned of the associated restriction of freedom.

Privacy. --- Right to information. --- Social psychology --- Secrecy --- Solitude

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Human beings have believed in conspiracies presumably as long as there have been groups of at least three people in which one was convinced that the other two were plotting against him or her. In that sense one might look back as far as Eve and the serpent to find the world's first conspiracy. Whereas recent generations have tended to find their conspiracies in politics and government, the past often sought its mysteries in religious cults or associations. In ancient Rome, for example, the senate tried to prohibit the cult of Isis lest its euphoric excesses undermine public morality and political stability. And during the Middle Ages, many rulers feared such powerful and mysterious religious orders as the Knights Templar.Fascination with the arcane is a driving force in this comprehensive survey of conspiracy fiction. Theodore Ziolkowski traces the evolution of cults, orders, lodges, secret societies, and conspiracies through various literary manifestations-drama, romance, epic, novel, opera-down to the thrillers of the twenty-first century. Arguing that the lure of the arcane throughout the ages has remained a constant factor of human fascination, Ziolkowski demonstrates that the content of conspiracy has shifted from religion by way of philosophy and social theory to politics. In the process, he reveals, the underlying mythic pattern was gradually co-opted for the subversive ends of conspiracy. Cults and Conspiracies considers Euripides's Bacchae, Andreae's Chymical Wedding, Mozart's The Magic Flute, and Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, among other seminal works. Mimicking the genre's quest-driven narrative arc, the reader searches for the significance of conspiracy fiction and is rewarded with the author's cogent reflections in the final chapter. After much investigation, Ziolkowski reinforces Umberto Eco's notion that the most powerful secret, the magnetic center of conspiracy fiction, is in fact "a secret without content."

Secrecy in literature. --- Secret societies in literature. --- Conspiracy in literature.