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Donald Trump’s election has brought the ‘filter bubble’ to the attention of a wider public: As a result of personalised search results and news-streams, Internet users get less and less exposed to conflicting viewpoints and are isolated intellectually in their own informational bubble.…
The Jadhav case The Jadhav case between India and Pakistan, recently-entered on the docket of the International Court of Justice following India’s application, raises an interesting treaty conflict issue.…
You might have read in the press recently that the Charity Commission has commenced a consultation about the continued registration as charities of complementary and alternative health charities.…
Compassion might seem an unusual topic to consider alongside law. Compassion is sometimes seen as a subjective, emotional, and capricious reaction to suffering that is incompatible with law’s objectivity, impartiality, reason, and public-oriented balancing of interests. Can compassion have any place in legislation, judging, and legal practice?…
For what purposes should the government be able to take private property? When I first started writing about that question, I thought there was little chance anyone outside the United States would ever be interested in my work.…
We started to work on this book when the world still seemed to be okay for those looking at it through the lens of international economics or international economic law.…
Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) was launched in 2012. Its emphasis on the contribution of non-state actors and recognition of the multilevel governance context in which law and regulatory developments now occur was path breaking.…
For centuries, scholars, judges and lawyers speculated about the error rate in the criminal justice system, many of them searching for absolute proof of the innocent person wrongfully convicted and imprisoned. These efforts often proved futile, absent irrefutable evidence like in a nineteenth century case from Vermont in the United States. In that case, two brothers were convicted of killing their brother-in-law after he went missing in 1812. They spent seven years awaiting execution before their brother-in-law walked back into town very much alive.…
On April 3, 2014, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the leading German daily newspapers, published a small note. The journalist reported from a meeting of the German Federal Minister of the Interior with a few selected public law professors at an Italian restaurant in Berlin.…
Last Friday, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) published its annual National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers.…
There has been increased controversy in recent years surrounding the use of armed drones and their implication on the right to life.…
Updating the commentaries on the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols is a task that resembles more a marathon than a sprint. This is hardly a surprise, as it is now more than 60 years since the first set of Pictet Commentaries appeared, giving practical guidance on how the conventions should be implemented.