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Exposure to the current media culture in almost any sphere – news, entertainment, business, politics, or technology – involves near constant contact with reporting on, and often barely concealed promotion of, artificial intelligence (AI) as a new and rapidly emerging area of computer engineering. One facet of this coverage is the characterisation of modern AI […]
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The international economic order is in a state of flux. Major political and economic developments are reconfiguring globalization as we know it: The World Trade Organization (WTO) is on life-support, a new era of economic statecraft has sparked confrontations between major trading countries, and domestic backlash has led to the emergence of globalization-skeptical parties and […]
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Rural areas are struggling. Rural poverty is increasing as jobs in agriculture, manufacturing, and resource extraction dry up. Small communities are shrinking: losing churches, schools, dentists, doctors, and—the subject of this book—lawyers. The worsening rural lawyer shortage is not new. What is new is the idea that we should do something to solve the crisis. […]
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning have enabled widespread automation of government decision-making in Western liberal democracies. Yet vulnerable populations have been seriously harmed because of the difficulties they face in challenging automated decisions. In Australia, the social security automated system pejoratively dubbed as “Robodebt” erroneously identified overpayments deemed to be owed by social security beneficiaries. […]
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The right to freedom of thought was a neglected right until recently. It was so overlooked that although article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights both state that everyone has the ‘right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion’, even legal […]
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The prohibition of torture is a peremptory norm of international law, while the prohibition of other ill-treatment is at least of a customary law nature. However, although this is clear, the precise parameters of these prohibitions continue to be the subject of some disagreement. The patchy definition of torture in domestic legislation—in fewer than eighty […]
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In recent years, sustainability and sustainable finance have become central public and academic debates. A growing number of laws, policies, and regulations have been introduced to steer private finance towards environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives. Investors are increasingly moving towards ESG-compliant assets, and financial products labelled as sustainable are being included in consumer portfolios. […]
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When I sat down to write Fighting Grand Corruption, I didn’t think I’d be writing it not just about Latin America (with a smattering of other countries) but also about my own country, the United States. But these days, the news comes fast and furious: self-dealing, cronyism, channelling of economic benefits to a select few, […]
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