Monthly Archives: December, 2024
Krebs and Bennett Moses, ‘Data Sharing Agreements: Contracting Personal Information In The Digital Age’
ABSTRACT Voluminous information about individuals is being shared every day and everywhere. Streamlining data sharing activities effectively allows public and private entities to use information for policy advancement, knowledge creation and business growth. At the same time, such sharing of personal information also risks harming individuals’ privacy and autonomy. How are data sharing activities governed […]
Abraham Cable, ‘Stock Options of Adhesion’
ABSTRACT Many startup employees do not negotiate or seriously investigate their stock option agreements. On its face, this is concerning because stock options and other forms of equity compensation are considered a key part of the Silicon Valley system. Accordingly, scholars and regulators have called for fundamental reform of securities laws in the name of […]
Markus Puder, ‘The Global South as a Player in the Climate Space: Private Litigants in European Courts Are Stepping Unto the Breach’
ABSTRACT International climate diplomacy is replete with assurances to envelop the countries and peoples of the Global South in the making of law and policy through intergovernmental channels. Over the decades following the birth of international environmental law with the first Earth Summit at Stockholm, many words of solace were spoken and nifty terms were […]
Call for Papers: Trends in Intellectual Property Research
Journal Overview: Trends in Intellectual Property Research (DOI: Prefix: 10.69971; ISSN: 3007-8539 [Online], 3007-8520 [Print]) invites research papers, review papers and case comments in all domains of intellectual property (IP) law. This includes, but is not limited to, topics related to patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, industrial design, internet law, privacy, unfair competition, antitrust and […]
Call for Papers: Legal Research & Analysis
Journal Overview: Legal Research & Analysis (DOI Prefix: 10.69971; ISSN: 3007-6455 [Online], 3007-6447 [Print]) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to multidimensional legal research. The journal provides a platform for cross-country comparative legal research, interdisciplinary approaches, and connections between various legal fields, including the integration of philosophy, economics, political science, and technology studies. Theme: Any […]
‘Charities as Heirs’
Adam J Hirsch, ‘Beyond Privity of Blood: Intestacy and Charity’, 76 UC Law Journal (forthcoming, 2025), available at SSRN (March 16, 2024). Adam Hirsch’s new article, ‘Beyond Privity of Blood: Intestacy and Clarity’, argues that intestacy statutes should sometimes give a share of the decedent’s property to charity. To be honest, when I read his […]
Mark Johnson, ‘Modernisation of will-making formalities requires a fulsome embrace of technology’
ABSTRACT Reform to enable electronic wills in England and Wales is on the horizon as the Law Commission reviews responses to its supplementary consultation with a view to reporting in early 2025. This article considers will-making in England and Wales and the potential impact of Wills Act 1837 formalities as a drag on the propensity […]
Ana Kvantaliani, ‘Transactions Concluded Under Duress and Immoral Transactions: Comparative Analysis’
ABSTRACT The following article examines legal transactions concluded under the defect of declaration of intent, more precisely, the interrelation of transactions concluded under duress (Article 85 of the Civil Code) and immoral transactions (Article 85 of the Civil Code). Confusion between immoral agreements and duress in Georgian judicial practice is commonplace. Duress, as a socially […]
‘Private International Law and Sustainability Development in Asia at Wuhan University – Report’
The Conference on Private International Law and Sustainability Development in Asia was successfully held at Wuhan University School of Law on 23rd November 2024. This international symposium was organized by Wuhan University Academy of International Law and Global Governance, Wuhan University School of Law and China Society of Private International Law … (more) [Zixuan Yang, […]
Alexander Georgiou, ‘Making contract-breakers pay’
INTRODUCTION This paper explores a deceptively simple question: if one person contracts to pay another a sum of money upon the happening of a particular event, and the event occurs, under what circumstances will a court order the promisor to pay? The English lawyer’s traditional answer is: ‘It depends’. Specifically, the rules which determine whether […]