THE GLOBAL EXPLOSION OF FREEDOM OF INFORMATION LAWS

* John M. Ackerman is Professor and Coordinator of the Research Program on Accountability, Legality, and the Rule of Law at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Mexico City (FLACSO-Mexico). Irma E. Sandoval-Ballesteros is Professor and Director of the Laboratory for the Documentation and Analysis of Corruption & Transparency at the Institute for Social Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (IIS-UNAM). The authors would like to thank Bruce Ackerman, Susan RoseAckerman, David Banisar, Pedro Salazar, Mauricio Merino, Ricardo Becerra, and Netzai Sandoval for their helpful comments on previous versions of this Article as well as Mexico's Federal Institute for Access to Public Information for funding support.