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  • 16 Sep 2020
    Marius R. Busemeyer, Julian L. Garritzmann, Erik Neimanns

    Education amidst Covid-19

    Covid-19 is challenging education provision around the globe. Here's how public opinion has affected the capacity of education systems to cope with the pandemic

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  • 14 Sep 2020
    Lea David

    The Past Can’t Heal Us. The Double Edge Sword of the Human Rights Memorialization Agenda

    The world is, and has always been, very short on justice. The recent Black Lives Matter movement is just another example in a long line of collective appeals to repair historical injustices. In my book “The Past Can’t Heal Us: The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights”, newly published with CUP, […]

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  • 10 Sep 2020
    Stian Øby Johansen

    Are international organizations accountable towards individuals when they violate human rights?

    International organizations are becoming increasingly powerful. In recent decades states have steadily been conferring powers upon international organizations in order to solve transnational problems and to provide global public goods. As a corollary of their increasing powers, international organizations affect the lives of individuals across the globe – directly and indirectly – through their decisions […]

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  • 10 Sep 2020
    Martin Ebers and Susana Navas

    Artificial Intelligence and Consumer Protection

    AI-based applications raise new, so far unresolved legal questions, and consumer law is no exception. The use of self-learning algorithms in Big Data analysis gives companies the opportunity to gain a detailed, individual insight into the customer’s personal circumstances, behavior patterns and personality. On this basis, companies can tailor their advertising, but also their prices […]

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  • 10 Sep 2020
    I. P. Haynes, L. Bosman, P. Liverani

    The Remarkable Basilica of Saint John Lateran

    By any standards, the Archbasilica of St John Lateran in Rome is a remarkable place. The world’s first cathedral, and the seat of the Pope; it is known as the mater et caput, the mother and head, of all churches in the Catholic World. This status comes as a surprise to the many who assume […]

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  • 8 Sep 2020
    Jennifer Trahan

    The Veto Power and Atrocity Crimes

    Some of the permanent members of the UN Security Council periodically use their veto (i.e., negative vote)—or threat of veto—to stop resolutions aimed at preventing or stopping the commission of core international crimes like genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. One sees this regarding Syria, for example, where chemical weapons inspections that would have […]

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  • 4 Sep 2020
    Charles Baukal, Jr.

    A Q&A with Charles Baukal, Jr.: A Gallery of Combustion and Fire

    What inspired this book? The Central States Section of the Combustion Institute (CSSCI) has been hosting a combustion art contest at its meetings for many years.  Someone at Cambridge University Press found out about that and asked if we would be interested in producing a book similar to Cambridge’s A Gallery of Fluid Motion but […]

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  • 4 Sep 2020
    David Costantini

    A Bird Stuck in the Sky

    Co-author of The Kestrel, David Costantini, discusses why the Kestrel is so important to him and his inspiration behind co-writing a book all about them.

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