Tag archive: law

‘”The Big Bang”: Analysing the EU Enlargements’ Impact on National Labour Law’

Rebecca Zahn | 18 Jul 2017

In 2004, then President of the European Union’s European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, declared that “from fifteen – suddenly there were twenty-five, and finally, Europe had become ‘Europe’ again.” He was speaking, of course, about the European Union (EU) enlargement when, in May 2004 and fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, eight post-communist Central and Eastern European countries joined the European Union.…

Forgotten Lives and Universal Lessons

Assaf Likhovski | 3 Jul 2017

My book, Tax Law and Social Norms in Mandatory Palestine and Israel, emerged out of an interest I had, as a tax law teacher, in the history of tax avoidance doctrines.…

Antitrust, Intellectual Property and High Tech – your one-stop reference for the most important questions

Roger D. Blair and D. Daniel Sokol | 30 Jun 2017

Read headlines around the world and it seems as if most of the important high tech companies are actively engaged in antitrust investigations or litigation.  These cases are fundamental to the very business models across software, hardware and pharmaceutical industries.  Our edited book The Cambridge Handbook of Antitrust, Intellectual Property and High Tech brings together a group of international experts in law and economics to better understand some of the complexities in this interface.  We thought it was important to have diverse voices.  This means that we have significant treatment of antitrust issues (called competition law outside of the United States) across the globe.…

Filtering out people from public space

Daniel Moeckli | 20 Jun 2017

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.…

India and Pakistan: Beyond the Cricket Field

Surabhi Ranganathan | 8 Jun 2017

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.…

Can the Charity Commission remove the Charitable Status of Alternative Health Charities?

Robert Meakin | 23 May 2017

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 and Law?

Dermot Feenan | 15 May 2017

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?

Ilya Somin | 11 May 2017

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.…

The Use of Economics in International Trade and Investment Disputes

Marion Jansen, Joost Pauwelyn, & Theresa Carpenter | 27 Apr 2017

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.…

TEL Fifth Anniversary Lecture: A Celebration in REDD

Feja Lesniewska | 25 Apr 2017

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.…

Criminal Justice: The DNA Revolution and the Evolution of Innocence

Daniel Medwed |

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.…

The Italian Connection and the German Constitutional Court

Niels Petersen | 13 Apr 2017

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.…