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… sentiments or concepts”, Prof. Scholtes explains. Magic Moritz and Markus were inspired by some earlier projects on very popular fantasy literature that were carried out. Moritz: “Students in previous years looked at for example Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Game of Thrones. However, to our surprise, Harry Potter was missing. Since the books are about magic, we decided it would be interesting to identify all of the spells and the wizards that cast the most spells." Expelliarmus: ‘Release your …
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… 1816 Treaty of Aachen reads “Since both commissions [of delimitation] have been unable to agree upon the way in which [the area would be separated] [...] the above-mentioned town [...] will be subject to a joint administration, and shall not be militarily occupied by any of the two powers.” Neutral Moresnet was born. The situation that lasted for the next 104 years is best described as bizarre. In the initial years, it was unclear what the nationality of the citizens would be, where and if they … side of the law, the substantive side had major issues as well. The Code did not mention compulsory education, which meant that most children worked in the zinc mine. The Code did not mention suffrage, which made Moresnet into a de jure authoritarian condominium. The Code did not mention gambling, which meant that even though gambling was prohibited in large parts of Europe, Neutral Moresnet turned into a would-be Monaco. Some provisions in the Code Napoléon gave explicit competences to the … hour. Formally, Belgian agreement was needed to end the special status of the condominium, so for some time, Neutral Moresnet existed under German rule. However, in 1915 Germany annexed Neutral Moresnet anyway. Where the history of Neutral Moresnet started with a conference and a treaty that had a lasting influence on European history, the history also ends at one. After the war, the Paris Peace Conference led to the Treaty of Versailles. Article 32 of the treaty holds that “Germany recognises the …
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… as services, for example under Class 42 NCL. Class 42 NCL includes the service of designing virtual goods, in particular the design with an aesthetic or artistic nature and the development of computer software. For example, the virtual brand Aimee Weber , the avatar of Alyssa LaRoche in Second Life and owner of a virtual shop that sells virtual clothing for avatars, was registered as a trade mark with the US Patent and Trademark Office for services under Class 42 NCL. However, it does not cover the virtual good per se. Given the hybrid nature of virtual goods, trade mark owners have sought protection for …
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Over the last 20 years, access to cheap computational capacity has increasingly led to the harvesting of more and more personal data, without having to worry too much about costs related to data storage and processing activities.
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… stage, the clauses gathered as well as clauses extracted from other sources will be content coded using the software NVivo in order to determine which obligations tend to be reoccurring in the majority of the clauses under analysis. The questionnaire targets individuals who have experience with commercial dispute resolution. The participation in the short questionnaire will require minimum effort, as most questions only require a simple mouse-click. Please note that the information entered in the …
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MEPLI’s one-day roundtable conference on choice in International Sale Law
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… first impression we make when colleagues or outside experts look for information about you and the things that we do. For academics the PP’s are also linked to PURE. If someone looking for information about us finds an empty or outdated page on the UM website, the first impression is not a very good one. And you know: you never get a second chance to make a first impression! I know that this type of thing never has priority in our busy lives. This is why this spring we organise the ‘PPP festival …
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… just a number. We try to create an environment for students where you feel heard, where you feel safe and where you can work on becoming the best version of yourself—whatever you want to do in the future. I’ve been with the MSP since before it even started in 2011, when it just existed on paper. From our original batch of 49 students, we have grown to more than 400 students today. Even though there are a lot more students now, I think it still has the small-scale feeling where you have a strong …
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“The oil of the 21st century”, “the fuel of the digital economy”, the “data gold rush”. There’s no doubt that data is playing an ever-more important role in both the global society and the economy.