Trade Secrets and the Right to Information: A Comparative Analysis of E.U. and U.S. Approaches to Freedom of Expression and Whistleblowing

Authors

Sharon Sandeen, Mitchell Hamline School of LawFollow
Ulla-Maija Mylly

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2020

Publication Information

21 North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology, issue 3, 1 (2020)

Abstract

Both the EU Trade Secrets Directive and US trade secret law seek to balance the protection of trade secrets against other values, including freedom of expression, but the EU Trade Secret Directive is more explicit about the need to do so. This article examines EU and US trade secret law through the right to information, a recognized human right under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and implementing laws and conventions. In particular, it discusses how principles of freedom of expression and whistleblowing should apply in the trade secret context in the EU and U.S.

Repository Citation

Sandeen, Sharon and Mylly, Ulla-Maija, "Trade Secrets and the Right to Information: A Comparative Analysis of E.U. and U.S. Approaches to Freedom of Expression and Whistleblowing" (2020). Faculty Scholarship. 500.
https://open.mitchellhamline.edu/facsch/500