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An alternative perspective for acquisitions of amber from Myanmar including recommendations of the United Nations Human Rights Council
Recent publications have been actively recommending strong embargos on Burmese amber trade and research. Although the motivation of these actions...
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The Contemporary Hybrid Model and Organized Crime Clusters
Based on the findings of previous chapters concerning a cluster modelling approach to organized crime and its evolution in the Ukrainian context, the...
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Overview of United Kingdom Trade Mark, Design and Copyright Cases 2022
A number of interesting cases involving wide-ranging issues in the intellectual property areas were decided in the UK in 2022. The latest in the saga...
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Fossil Trafficking, Fraud, and Fakery
The fascination with ancient flora and fauna is a centuries-old phenomenon and is one of the main drivers of fossil crimes. Fossils have been sought...
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China’s National Policy and Practices in Combating Child Trafficking: Good Practices
Child trafficking has long been regarded as a malignancy afflicting society, undermining its stability. Consequently, China has a long history of...
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UK Immigration and Asylum Administration—A Public Administration Failure?
Chapters 2 and 3 demonstrated how successive governments’ choices of...
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Restricting Biofuel Imports in the Name of the Environment: How Does the Application of WTO Rules Affect Developing Countries?
There are calls for biofuel imports from developing countries to be restricted. The imports which are either in the form of end-product (bioethanol...
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Between Injustice and Legal Change: The Situation of LGBTQ+ People in Latvia and Lithuania
The chapter focuses on the legal and social situation of LGBTQ+ in Latvia and Lithuania. It analyses the legal regulation of same-sex couples,...
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Light Pollution as a Risk for Astronomical Research and How to Manage It
Astronomers undertake research by observing the universe to collect relevant data, which they analyse to deduce a model for the physical state of the...
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Students Making Meaning: Teaching Legal Semiotics in the Context of International Law
This chapter considers the challenge of teaching legal semiotics to students from distinct legal traditions, civil law, Common Law, as well as hybrid...
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Global Justice and International Economic Law
As defined by Salomon in the quote above, legal obligations could be considered just if they are fair to impoverished States and peoples. However...
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Law in Books and Law in Action: The Readability of Privacy Policies and the GDPR
The most systematic legislative attempt to make more order in the chaotic world of privacy is the EU General Data Protection RegulationGeneral Data...
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Environmental Injury and Trade Remedy Rules
Environmental injury is in principle not considered under the trade remedy rules unless it coincides with or causes economic harm to the domestic...
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Biased Algorithms and the Discrimination upon Immigration Policy
Artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence has been used in decisions concerning the admissibility, reception, and even deportationDeportation of...
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Legitimate Power without Authority: The Transmission Model
Some authors have argued that legitimacy without authority is possible, though their work has not found much uptake in mainstream political...
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Ghosts and Punks: The Aesthetics of Copyright Law in Graphic Novels and Comics
Graphic justice and the law of aesthetics have in very recent years successfully brought law, aesthetics and comics scholarship into the same space....
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Geolocation in Crime Detection and Prevention
The present chapter aims at depicting the role of geolocation techniques in the criminal justice system. Geolocation is intended as the process of...
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Espionage, Ethics, and Law: From Philosophy to Practice
In this paper, I respond to Lars Christie, David Omand and Stephen Ratner for their thoughtful comments on my book Spying through a Glass Darkly . In...
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Rajasthan
Even though water-scarce and mostly a desert, the State of Rajasthan is rich in traditional water wisdom that seeks to save every drop of water from...
