Halfway to Freedom of Information

This book presents a comprehensive assessment of the law and enforcement relating to Chinese citizens' right of access to information (ATI). It reviews the labyrinth of Chinese laws that bear on government information disclosure, and examines the judicial treatment of the ATI right based on a survey of over 400 representative lawsuits.

Yongxi Chen is a Senior Research Assistant at the Faculty of Law of The University of Hong Kong. He has published on freedom of information, personal data protection and comparative administrative law. He has participated in preparing the drafts of China's first local regulation on freedom of information and other local legislation on informatization. Before receiving his PhD in Law at the University of Hong Kong in 2013, he obtained a postgraduate diploma in European law at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and his LLM and LLB at Sun Yat-sen University, China.