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… Charles de Gaulle vetoed the initiative. The UK again requested membership in 1967, and France again vetoed the request. These efforts took place only 50 years ago! The opportunity finally presented itself with Georges Pompidou. Thus, a third effort started, and finally in 1973 the first extension included the UK. The intention to be part of a union overshadowed the remaining feelings on the island. The UK knocked at the door of the EU on three occasions: there was an interest in defence along with … and that will shape the future; yet, it is, ultimately, just another step. Actors shape the life of the EU. These actors enter and leave the scene, some play leading roles while others play supporting roles, at alternate times. As in a novel, stars fight or love each other, while others die, and some even resurrect or lose (and recover) their memory. Time will provide! More blogs on Law Blogs Maastricht Labels: private law. MEPLI LBM A. Parise Agustín Parise (Buenos Aires, Argentina) is …
… may be faced with fracking in South Africa, with the exploitation of waterfalls in Scandinavia, with illegal mining sites in China, or with surface mining in the USA. The preservation role of owners should be paramount. The literature is currently starting to point to the emergence of an Ecological Function paradigm. The idea of a social function is currently being replaced in many jurisdictions by one that refers to ownership as fulfilling an ecological function, where there is a duty to …
… to user friends that Facebook allowed third parties to tap into is astonishing. The extended profile properties permission facilitated the extraction of information about: activities, birthdays, check-ins, education history, events, games activity, groups, interests, likes, location, notes, online presence, photo and video tags, photos, questions, relationships and relationships details, religion and politics, status, subscriptions, website and work history. Extended permissions changed in 2014, with the second version of the Graph API (v2.0), which suffered many other changes since (see Table 2) [7]. However, one interesting thing that stands out when comparing versions 1.0 and 2.0 is that less information is gathered from targeted users than from their friends, even if v2.0 withdrew the extended profile properties (but not the extended permissions relating to reading private messages). Open bijschrift Table 1 – Facebook application permissions and availability to API v1 …
Fairy tales, when understood as manuals of behaviour that are shared within the household, can serve as a means to study and understand the law at a specific time and space. This claim is not new. The Grimm Brothers, the renowned scholars Friedrich C. von Savigny (1779-1861) and John H.
… and areas of further research. Provenance. A source has a provenance, an origin that helps contextualize its content. Who is the author of the source? Is the author writing today, was she writing 300 years ago? Is he writing from within a totalitarian regime? Is she writing from prison, from exile, immediately after a seminal event, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall? Is the forum aiming to a local or global readership? Is the author a jurist? Is she an academic or a practitioner? Reflecting …
The 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 25th anniversary of the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights are a landmark in the development of human rights and a source of inspiration for academic research on new global human rights issues.
… merely editorial content and an advertisement is also not easy to make. Currently, German law does not assume such editorial intent if the relevant post includes unnecessary tap tags or does not provide any informative content. The second case group includes situations in which the good depicted in the online content are provided for free. If the company expects the influencer to make a positive reference in exchange for sending him/her a product, the post has a commercial character and must … requirements, the Committee can require the amendment or withdrawal of the content. If the influencer or brand do not comply or persistently violate the Code requirements, the ASA can take more serious sanctions, such as requiring that internet search websites remove a marketer's paid-for search advertisements when those advertisements link to a page that contains material that breaks the rules or has their name and details featured on a dedicated section of the ASA website to signal advertising violations . In case of violation of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations, the CMA will investigate then it will ask that the advertiser and influencer provide undertakings to ensure that such content is …
… and private actors (and their interests) are intermingling. Private and public law can no longer be considered water-tight compartments. The past century offered a context that welcomed a frequent interplay of private and public law. The divide started to get blurry with the emergence of two phenomena: the privatization of constitutional law and the constitutionalization of private law. The first is sensed within constitutions, while the second is sensed (in civil law jurisdictions) within …
Comparative legal historians do not undertake pure legal history or pure comparative law. The product of their research experience is more than the mere addition of the two building blocks.
… Announcing the Technolaweeks! Smart devices already communicate with each other, why shouldn’t we? When law meets technology: a creative workshop bringing together the fields of law and artificial intelligence through student engagement ( see event website here ). Announcing the Technolaweeks! After a successful launch in January, we’re bringing to you a series of very exciting events around the theme of law and technology! Exclusive programme to follow shortly. When law meets technology… …