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‘Deepfakes: Can you “copyright” a person?’
A bill to amend the Danish Copyright Act is currently under consultation. If adopted, it would introduce a self-standing and expanded protection for individuals whose likeness is reproduced in deepfakes. Until now, global protection against deepfakes has followed a general and fragmented pattern. Serious abuses – especially pornographic deepfakes – have typically been pursued under […]
Underwood and Buckley, ‘Duty Calls: Good Faith and Best Interests in Company Law: New Zealand and The United Kingdom Considered’
ABSTRACT A central issue of corporate governance is in whose interests the corporation must be run. This article explores how this tension is played out by considering directors’ good faith duty in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. The Companies Act 2006 (UK) introduced the Enlightened Shareholder Value approach to address the perennial issue of […]
Verma, Dal Pont and Nielsen, ‘Personal Information Collection Via Video Games: Australian Privacy Law Implications’
ABSTRACT Video game companies collect vast amounts of personal information about gamers, including — but not limited to — age, gender, facial scans, credit card details, licence numbers and location data. There is a significant gap in research regarding the true scope of this information collection and associated privacy law Implications. This is particularly evident […]
Dietz and Warburton, ‘Prescribing wearable tech: Quantification, data protection, and the problem of consent’
ABSTRACT Wearable devices such as smartwatches and fitness bands are increasingly being touted for use in healthcare. The suggestion that they could enhance treatment while reducing costs has resonated with governments in the USA, the UK, and beyond. This exploratory article examines the regulatory challenges that arise as wearables transition from consumer to health contexts. […]
Annual Conference on European Tort Law: Vienna, 8-10 April 2026
The Conference will commence on the evening of Wednesday, April 8, with an opening lecture by Helmut Koziol on ‘Rethinking the Law of Loss Allocation’. The programme will continue on Thursday, April 9, with a series of sessions highlighting the most significant recent developments in tort law from across a wide range of European jurisdictions. […]
‘Planning for Bargaining Power’
Albert H Choi and George G Triantis, ‘Designing Contract Modification’, University of Chicago Law Review (forthcoming), available at SSRN (2 February 2025). This article by Professors Choi and Triantis hits close to home with how closely it models my personal experiences with oil and gas leases on my family’s farm during the leasing boom of […]
Ghada Zakout, ‘Public Versus Private Interests in Intellectual Property Rights Law: Where does the Right to Science Stand in Cancer Research?’
ABSTRACT Although intellectual property laws are deemed an effective tool in promoting innovation in healthcare, their impact on the societal right to cancer research is uncertain. Emerging normative literature demonstrates why the effects of intellectual property rights laws may not be as intended. However, with protection against the entrenchment of intellectual property laws through harnessing […]
Deniz Canruh, ‘Rationalising the proprietary nature of shareholders’ voting rights’
ABSTRACT This article examines a long-standing principle of United Kingdom (UK) company law: shareholders’ voting rights are property rights. It challenges the existing justifications for this principle, but then it re-rationalises it through the prism of property law. This article also defends the principle from the criticisms in the literature. € (Westlaw) Deniz Canruh, ‘Rationalising […]
Kwan Ho Lau, ‘Terms implied by law: to exclude or not to exclude?’
ABSTRACT In 2001, Elisabeth Peden concluded after some study that the process of implication of terms in law was ‘correspondingly vague and lacking in definite principles’. Over two decades later, that characterisation remains accurate. The varied terminology in judicial use reflects an ambiguity over the normative position occupied by terms implied by law. That, in […]
Matthew Baker, ‘Medieval Roots, Modern Insights: The Origins of Common Law Contract’
ABSTRACT Common law contract is described as the body of law dealing with legally enforceable promises, with its basic principles originating from judicial decisions. What underpins this method of lawmaking is an understanding of the past, such that prior judicial decisions guide the resolution of present legal disputes. Yet despite this ostensibly historical process serving […]