Category: European Law

6 years ago I pledged to minimise conference travel and, basically, not to fly. This prompted a productive debate at the time but it quickly petered out. I tended to get the occasional raised eyebrow (or, less frequently, a thumbs up) when I declined invitations for in-person participation and asked to join online. Initially, not…

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Judgment in The Kingdom of Spain v The London Steam-Ship Owners’ Mutual Insurance Association Ltd (The M/T Prestige) [2024] EWCA Civ 1536 was issued in the run up to Christmas. That happened to be during the final weeks of my visiting fellowship at St Catherine’s Oxford, and a whole series of other distractions since (not…

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The 20th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, organized by DTU. It aims to create a platform for spreading awareness and facilitating interactions and knowledge exchanges around old and new issues by taking a holistic approach to society and technology. We support interdisciplinary research exchange and foster…

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The impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs on EU and UK exports is likely to be far less than is commonly thought, writes Tsjalle van der Burg. But the uncertainty caused by Trump’s policies could still cause severe economic damage. One of the apparent aims of Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs on 2 April was to…

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By Arailym, Patrick and Sondra The road to what might be called regulatory maturity is often a long one. In EU cybersecurity regulation, a culture of vertical and horizontal collaboration is optimistic but seemingly ineffective. It likely leaves the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) feeling somewhat envious of the centralised enforcement powers recently vested…

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  Steve Peers, Professor of Law, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: Andre Engels, via Wikimedia Commons The EU’s asylum pact was adopted less a year ago, and mostly won’t apply for over another year – and yet the EU Commission has already proposed to amend it, in order to bring forward some of…

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Introduction The topic of debate is whether corporate human rights pose an obstacle or precursor to their own accountability for human rights violations. Many might have an intuitive response: if corporations can be held responsible for human rights violations, they also should have protected rights and access to courts to enforce those rights. Or vice…

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US Antitrust Case Targets Meta’s Acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp At a time when Europeans are eagerly awaiting the European Commission’s rigorous enforcement of the new tech rules designed to tackle digital platform power, this week’s developments across the Atlantic reminded us that big tech scrutiny has not only been on the European agenda in…

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Bruno Saraiva [master’s student in European Union Law and Digital Citizenship & Technological Sustainability (CitDig) scholarship holder] I. Henrietta Lacks is a relatively obscure name, but one that is representative of the extraordinary impact an individual can have on human achievements, despite their recognition, in life and after death. Her legacy is one of immortality,…

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