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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...

Stian Øby Johansen | 10 Sep 2020

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...

Martin Ebers and Susana Navas | 10 Sep 2020

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...

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

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...

Jennifer Trahan | 8 Sep 2020

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...

Charles Baukal, Jr. | 4 Sep 2020

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.

David Costantini | 4 Sep 2020

Stealing Poetry

“To steal a Hint was never known, But what he writ was all his own.” – Verses on the Death of Dr Swift, D.S.P.D. Part way through his most famous self-elegy,...

Daniel Cook | 3 Sep 2020

Constitutional Economics – A Primer

The economic analysis of constitutions – constitutional economics for short – has been growing fast over the last 20 years or so. Today, it has become an indispensable part of political economy, but...

Stefan Voigt | 3 Sep 2020

Labor, Poverty, and Power

Countries around the world are struggling with the economic repercussions of the pandemic, and the United States in particular has recorded levels of unemployment not seen since the Great Depression. While...

3 Sep 2020

Playing with science—studying Africa

I find the realm of science a captivating enterprise to engage in. Increasingly, the importance of science is being felt today in the ongoing Covid19 pandemic. My encounters with science started...

R. Sooryamoorthy | 2 Sep 2020

Why are there reeducation camps for Uighurs but not Tibetans in China?

Since mid-2017, reports of massive “re-education camps” in Xinjiang province have set off global outcries over the mistreatment of Muslim Uighurs in western China. Promoted as schools for deradicalization...

Yan Sun | 1 Sep 2020

Donald Trump and Joe Biden – Would You Believe Two Peas in a Pod?

The two men could hardly seem any more different. Yes, they are both male and white and Christian and heterosexual and American. They are even approximately the same age. But in that which matters most...

Todd L. Pittinsky, Barbara Kellerman | 1 Sep 2020