Ricardo Perlingeiro
Fluminense Federal University - Faculty of Law
Full Professor in Law
Rua Presidente Pedreira, 62
Niterói , 24210-470
Brazil
Estácio de Sá University - MA and PhD Programs in Law
Associate Professor in Law
Avenida Presidente Vargas, 642
Rio de Janeiro, 20071-001
Brazil
Birmingham City University - Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences
Visiting Professor in Comparative Judicial Studies
4 Cardigan Street
Birmingham, B4 7BD
United Kingdom
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Ideas:
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A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it,
is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy;
or, perhaps both.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance:
And a people who mean to be their own Governors
must arm themselves with the power
which knowledge gives.
J. Madison to W.T. Barry (1822),
Writings 9:103-109
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy
for social and industrial diseases.
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.. .”
L. D. Brandeis,
in: Harper’s Weekly (1913),
“What Publicity Can Do”
Sunlight may well be a great disinfectant.
But as anyone who has ever waded through a swamp knows,
it has other effects as well.
L. Lessig
in: New Republic (2009)
“Against Transparency”
”
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