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  • 1 Mar 2023
    Graeme Laurie

    What Obligations Do We Owe Our Future Selves in Biomedical Research?

    The inspiration for this blog, the fourth in a series drawing on contributions to the festschrift Law and Legacy in Medical Jurisprudence: Essays in Honour of Graeme Laurie published by Cambridge University Press (CUP), is the chapter therein by Bartha Maria Knoppers, Ruth Chadwick, and Michael J. S. Beauvais entitled: ‘Biomedical Research Policy: Back to […]

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  • 23 Feb 2023
    Graeme Laurie

    “More easily recognised than described…”
    Struggles with the meanings and value of privacy in a moral community

    This blog is the third in a series of five posts that reflect on contributions made to the festschrift Law and Legacy in Medical Jurisprudence: Essays in Honour of Graeme Laurie, published by Cambridge University Press. In the previous blogs, I have looked back on the crucially important role of teaching in our field, and […]

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  • 21 Feb 2023
    Graeme Laurie

    The act of becoming – Law, liminality and legacy in an academic career

    What do we hope to become in a career or over multiple careers in a lifetime? What do we want to be known for? What mark do we aspire to make, however large or small? Who, if anyone, do we seek to inspire? In this blog, the second in a series of five posts responding […]

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  • 16 Feb 2023
    Paul B. Stephan

    The World Crisis and International Law – The Knowledge Economy and the Battle for the Future

          Russia’s invasion of Ukraine captivates our attention, while we fear that worse is coming. China threatens Taiwan, Iran almost certainly will become a nuclear power before long. The last omnibus funding bill passed by the U.S. Congress – maybe the last for some time, as the House since has flipped against the Biden Administration – left […]

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  • 9 Feb 2023
    Graeme Laurie

    The debate is endless, but it is far from pointless – Lessons in legacy from teaching medical jurisprudence

    This blog is the first in a series of five posts responding to the festschrift published in 2021 by my dear colleagues and friends Edward Dove and Niamh Nic Shuibhne and entitled Law and Legacy in Medical Jurisprudence: Essays in Honour of Graeme Laurie (CUP, 2021). I am incredibly humbled by this act of scholarly […]

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  • 8 Feb 2023
    Lisa Dellmuth, Jonas Tallberg

    Legitimacy Politics. Elite Communication and Public Opinion in Global Governance

    Once staunch advocates of international cooperation, political elites are increasingly divided over the merits of global governance. Populist leaders attack international organizations for undermining national democracy, while mainstream politicians defend their importance for solving transboundary problems. In our recent book, we have explored whether, when, and why elite communication shapes the popular legitimacy of international […]

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  • 8 Feb 2023
    Sungjoon Cho, Jürgen Kurtz

    The Economic Tao of ASEAN

    ASEAN in the Limelight The contemporary global vortex of geopolitics and geoeconomy throws one region into sharp relief: ASEAN.  Despite a double tribulation of the United States – China trade war and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economies of the ASEAN member states have demonstrated remarkable levels of resiliency. While Asia’s trade volume […]

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  • 7 Feb 2023
    Colin H. Williams

    The New Speaker Phenomenon

    Today many European minority language communities are undergoing profound changes, in part as a result of globalisation, increased mobility and accelerating socio-economic fragmentation within heartland areas. Whereas in the past the family and community network ensured inter-generational language transmission, now it is mainly the statutory education system which provides the skills necessary to communicate effectively […]

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