Latest blog articles
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Seventy years to the day have passed since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted. International human rights have since gained ground in theory, discourse, and practice.
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What does sovereignty mean in today’s world, given trends of globalisation, Europeanisation and also polarisation?
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Over the years, I have heard various colleagues say they thought empirical legal research (ELR) has been on the rise. Some see this as a positive development, making law and legal research more evidence-based and diverse.
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2018 is the first year in history when more than half of the world’s population is online. Since its dawn, the Internet has changed many aspects of daily life.
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Geographical Indications (also known as GIs) are signs used to safeguard the link between a product and its place of origin. In order for a product to be protected as a GI, the exact production methods and environmental factors need to be documented.
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This post will focus on the Article 34(1) ICJ Statute requirement that ‘[o]nly states may be parties in cases before the Court’.
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Protected geographical indications (PGI) cannot be granted for names deemed generic in the language of a territory.
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The World Report on Disability estimates that approximately one in five people in the world have some form of ‘disability’ – a characteristic which is strongly associated with socio-economic disadvantage.
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Technological innovation and law have always made a good pair - as society evolves, so do (some of) our legal needs.
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Dowsing is the ability to detect the source of things. Dowsing for a source of legal ideas must start at an early stage in academic life, when students write their first legal papers.