Citizens\u27 Grievances Against Administrative Agencies--The Yugoslav Approach

Yugoslavia, with a population of nearly twenty million, occupies a territory slightly larger than the United Kingdom. Professedly communist in philosophy, increasingly democratic in practice, it recognizes that the supposed interests of the State do not preclude attention to individual rights as well. In recent years Yugoslavia, like the United States, has earnestly sought efficient means of examining complaints about public administration. The present article sketches some of the measures that protect citizens against official abuse or mistake

The Right to Know: First Amendment Overbreadth

Professor Emerson’s lecture on “Legal Foundations of the Right to Know” keynoted a daylong symposium on the First Amendment held March 3, 1976, at Washington University. At a subsequent panel discussion several distinguished lawyers and members of the press responded to Professor Emerson\u27s address. The remarks of two panel members, Professor Walter Gellhorn and Mr. James C. Goodale, are reprinted below. Transcripts of their responses have been edited slightly for publication