Recently (25 November to 10 December), the world marked 16 days of activism against gender-based violence (GBV). The UN recognizes intimate partner violence and technology-facilitated violence against women as some of the most common forms of violence against women (VAWG) globally.
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Report on a roundtable on academic publishing and genAI deals – GenAI and copyright series at the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law – Go Health Pro
Being an academic is a vocation. We are not in it for the money (hopefully), but mostly (hopefully) for the impact that we can make on our students’ and colleagues’ lives, as well as to contribute to the process of healthy law and policy-making. It is a job with lots of responsibility, joys, surprises and … Read more
Advocate General Rantos proposes a retroactive interpretation of European type approval law which makes up to 200 Mio type approved motor vehicles in the EU illegal – Go Health Pro
Dr. Benedikt Wolfers, M.A. & Sebastian Lutz-Bachmann, LL.M.* * Partners of the Law Firm Posser Spieth Wolfers & Partners in Berlin. Photo credit: Reinhold Möller, via Wikimedia Commons In recent years, the Court of Justice decided a series of cases in relation to vehicle type approval law. On 21 November … Read more
Not Having Your International Law and Eating It. On the Nicaragua Moment of International Criminal Justice – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro
You probably assume that you know what the word “expat” means. The writer Lucy Mushita first heard that word from European and American professionals who had come to work in her home country (Zimbabwe); they used it to describe themselves. She looked it up in a dictionary and found out that “expat” designates someone who goes to live or work in a country that is not his or her own. Later, however, she discovered that the word had a more limited scope than what its dictionary meaning suggested. “When I arrived in France and introduced myself as an expat, people looked at me with wide eyes,” she describes in her latest book Expat Blues. “They asked me if I’d fled poverty, misery or war, and I replied that I hadn’t. I was an expat. I was an expat who had followed her husband to France. But I realized that the word didn’t work for black people in the Western world.”
forum shopping possibilities) for future reference. – gavc law – geert van calster – Go Health Pro
I reviewed and criticised the successful first instance forum non conveniens challenge by Dyson viz a claim allegations of forced labour at Dyson’s Malaysian Supplier, here. That finding was today resoundly overturned by the Court of Appeal in Dhan Kumar Limbu & others v Dyson Technology Limited and others [2024] EWCA Civ 1564. The issues at … Read more