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  • 14 Apr 2023
    James Gallen

    Transitional Justice and the Historical Abuses of Church and State

    Why does it seem like there is persistent disclosure but also dissatisfaction regarding non-recent violence and how it is addressed? In countries from Australia, to Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, victim-survivors have been advocating for States and Christian churches to address allegations of non-recent violence, including child sexual abuse, forced transfer, […]

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  • 5 Apr 2023
    Wendy E. Parmet

    How Courts Make Us Sick

    More than three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States is an unhealthy country. During the pandemic, the United States lost more people per capita to COVID-19 than any other high-income country and life expectancy, which was lower in the United States before the pandemic than in any other wealth country, […]

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  • 31 Mar 2023
    David Orden, Lars Brink

    Farm Subsidies and International Trade Rules

    Farm subsidies and international trade rules are the subjects of a new 2023 book Agricultural Domestic Support under the WTO: Experience and Prospects. Why now? ‘It could not be more topical’ said a high-level trade official when the book appeared. The European Union, the United States, Japan, and many other countries supported and protected farm production massively […]

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  • 30 Mar 2023
    Mónica García-Salmones Rovira

    Back to the Basics: The Necessity of Nature

    The main reason for writing the book The Necessity of Nature was a discovery I made in an out-of-this-world research sojourn in Australia. I had applied somehow carelessly for a Laureate Fellowship with Professor Anne Orford’s Laureate Program at the University of Melbourne. However, the whole thing turned out to be one of the most […]

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  • 15 Mar 2023
    Olia Kanevskaia

    The Law and Practice of Global ICT Standardization

    “Home is where the Wi-Fi connects automatically.” There is some truth in this slightly stereotyped statement: our daily life can no longer be imagined without digital connectivity, and no economic activity would take place without devices and networks that connect to the global web. All these connections are enabled through standards – technical agreements written […]

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  • 9 Mar 2023
    Graeme Laurie

    Leaving a legacy: what kind of scholar do you want to be?

    What kind of scholar do you want to be? Nobody ever asked me this question in the formative years of my academic career. Yet, I believe that it is one of the most important questions an academic should ask themselves; and there are so many ways to answer the question. In this blog I offer […]

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  • 1 Mar 2023
    Tu Phuong Nguyen,

    Coping with Precarity: The Role of Law in Vietnam

    Tu Phuong Nguyen This book investigates the paradoxical effects of law on the survival strategies of Vietnamese workers and residents who are caught to live and work in uncertain and sometimes desperate condition. It builds upon the longstanding queries of law in everyday life: Is law able to offer a feasible solution to people’s everyday […]

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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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