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Will the ECJ mandate protectionism in procurement — comments on AG Collins’ Kolin Opinion (C-652/22) — How to Crack a Nut – Go Health Pro

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Will the ECJ mandate protectionism in procurement — comments on AG Collins’ Kolin Opinion (C-652/22) — How to Crack a Nut – Go Health Pro

In the Opinion in Kolin Inşaat Turizm Sanayi ve Ticaret (C-652/22, EU:C:2024:212, hereafter ‘Kolin’), Advocate General Collins has argued that only economic operators established in countries party to international agreements on public contracts that bind the EU may rely on the provisions of Directive 2014/25/EU. This would imply that economic operators established in other countries … Read more

Machine readable or not? – notes on the hearing in LAION e.v. vs Kneschke – Go Health Pro

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Machine readable or not? – notes on the hearing in LAION e.v. vs Kneschke – Go Health Pro

Landgericht Hamburg Criminal Justice Building by Andrew Milligan sumo from flickr CC BY 2.0 Last week, the District Court of Hamburg, Germany, held a hearing in the first European case to examine the legality of using copyrighted works for the purpose of training generative AI models. The case centers on LAION e.V.’s (a German non-profit … Read more

Different jurisdiction, same problems? – Verfassungsblog – Go Health Pro

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Different jurisdiction, same problems? – Verfassungsblog – Go Health Pro

Law and Political Economy in the European Context The relationship of Economics and Law is long, contested, and entangled. Law and Political Economy (hereinafter: LPE), a group of legal scholars that are mostly working at universities in the United States, offers yet another perspective on this relationship. In a nutshell LPE may be described as … Read more

Op-Ed: “‘Wrong‘ Questions, misguided Answers, regulatory Distortion?” – Go Health Pro

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Op-Ed: “‘Wrong‘ Questions, misguided Answers, regulatory Distortion?” – Go Health Pro

This is the second Op-Ed of a Symposium on the Apple State Aid case (C‑465/20 P). A previous Op-Ed has been authored by Romero J. S. Tavares. More Op-Eds will follow soon in EU Law Live. The Apple Decision Simpliciter – A Blinkered Approach? There is an adage:  ‘You get answers to the questions you ask’.  … Read more

The Court of Justice’s Landing Point – Go Health Pro

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The Court of Justice’s Landing Point – Go Health Pro

    Salvo Nicolosi and Türkan Ertuna Lagrand, University of Utrecht Photo credit: USAID, via Wikimedia Commons   Just a couple of weeks after the Taliban regime in Afghanistan announced a new decree prohibiting women from being heard when speaking outside their homes, on 4 October, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) … Read more