2026 August - 43 articles
Much of the discourse around FinTech regulation focuses on whether legal frameworks adequately facilitate private-sector innovation. This article argues that the more consequential and underexamined question is whether enacted frameworks are operatio...
The adoption of the Ecological and Environmental Code of the People’s Republic of China (March 2026) marks the arrival of the codification era. Building upon existing provisions in the Civil Procedure Law, the Code empowers procuratorial organs...
American universities have always reached beyond knowledge development. They are constituted through and often defenders of rights central to free and fair democracy. This article makes a novel case for reinvigorated commitments to democratic civic e...
This study examines how migration influences key issues in the economy and the labour market, and whether the latest EU-level policy initiatives—including the EU Talent Pool initiative—may affect the balance between labour supply and dema...
The growing inability of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to conclude new multilateral agreements has prompted groups of like-minded Members to experiment with alternative forms of trade cooperation. The Agreement on Electronic Commerce (ECA), conc...
This article examines the European Union’s response to the United States’ challenge to two pillars of the multilateral trading system: the Most Favoured Nation principle and compulsory third-party adjudication. Drawing on Hirschman’...
The civic thought movement has produced many fine proposals for facilitating a more robust citizen education in multiple legal contexts, but these proposals have mostly taken for granted what it means to be a citizen of the United States in our time....
As U.S. immigration policy changes across presidential administrations, it is critical to examine how these changes shape immigrants’ interactions with the legal system. While immigrants are provided basic rights, many lack access to critical p...
The use of artificial intelligence chatbots that mirror human interaction and emotional closeness has given rise to new forms of crime. Traditional online grooming is generally conceptualized as an offence in which a human perpetrator plans, initiate...
In the modern understanding of public administration, public authorities establish companies governed by private law to ensure flexibility and efficiency in service delivery. However, the fact that these companies utilize public funds necessitates ef...
As part of their broad commentary on U.S. trade policy and the world trading system, the U.S. Trade Representatives during each of Donald Trump’s terms in office have offered a public critique of specific aspects of the WTO as a “contract...
In May 2025, a new and welcome Pandemic Treaty was signed. The success of this treaty for the management of future pandemics depends on a re-evaluation of the importance of previous well-established treaty-based international human rights norms in co...
This article examines the legal implications of civilian intelligence applications used during armed conflict, focusing on smartphone-based reporting systems deployed in the Russian–Ukrainian war. Applications such as Ukraine’s e-Enemy fe...
Children are a particularly vulnerable group in the global flow of human trafficking and face persistent barriers in accessing justice. This article examines how the United Kingdom (UK) ensures justice for Vietnamese child victims of human traffickin...
This article examines the legal inadequacy of traditional piracy frameworks in responding to contemporary maritime threats. The legal definition of piracy, rooted in Articles 101 and 105 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)...
Swiss inheritance law is increasingly confronted with profound social and legal transformations that challenge its traditional foundations. This article analyzes how Swiss inheritance law is striving to adapt to these contemporary developments, parti...
Spitting is commonly treated in legal contexts as a minor physical or public health offence; however, this classification reflects a broader doctrinal tendency to prioritise contact-based and biohazard models of harm. This paper argues that contempor...
This article examines how the right to mental health has been constitutionalized in Peru through the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court. Using doctrinal constitutional analysis, the article combines the interpretation of international human ri...
The development of large artificial intelligence models relies on the integrity and accuracy of training data. Malicious contamination of training data introduces false information. This information becomes fixed as parameter bias during model traini...
This article examines how sexual violence against Indigenous women and girls is compounded by intersectional discrimination and secondary victimisation within state institutions. It conducts a structured, focused cross-regime comparative jurisprudent...
Background: The rapid digitalisation of healthcare, the expanding use of artificial intelligence, and the development of cross-border medical services have significantly transformed medical practice. These developments have also intensified medico-le...
This article considers the exclusion of parents to inherit under section 1(1)(d) of the South African Intestate Succession Act 81 of 1987 (ISA) in cases of complete abandonment. It is based on a desktop study of the ISA, relevant case law (primarily...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a transformative phenomenon for global economies. Corporate insolvency regimes, equally, are economically significant as they promote preventive measures, company rescue/restructuring, liquidation of inefficient enterp...
The judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Case C-713/23, Wojewoda Mazowiecki, constitutes a significant development in the Court’s case law concerning the recognition of personal status acquired in another Member State. Whil...
As an inherent part of Chinese indigenous legal tradition, dian originated from customary practices and was gradually incorporated into the national legal framework, reflecting a distinctive historical evolution, structural composition, and value ori...
The digitalisation of healthcare is transforming not only clinical practice but also the legal architecture through which health rights are protected, coordinated, and operationalised. Using Italy as a doctrinal case study within the European Union (...
Scholarship on civic engagement and democratic culture has long emphasized dialogue, inclusion, and the recognition of marginalized voices, yet the legal and civic status of individuals with disabilities—particularly those with Down syndrome&md...
Given the current global trend of actively exploring the integration of AI into dispute resolution, we contend that, under existing theoretical and normative frameworks, there is as yet no sound basis for incorporating AI—least of all for repla...
The article critically examines the emergence of technofeudalism within the European Union’s legal framework, drawing on the theoretical contributions of Yanis Varoufakis, Alfred C. Yen, and Katrina Geddes. We argue that the EU’s historic...
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the case law of the European Court of Justice related to the rebuttal of the principle of mutual trust in the process of judicial cooperation in criminal matters. It analyses ten judgements of the Cou...
Sea-level rise has its gravest effects in low-lying States and coastal communities. Yet the legal obligations engaged by those effects remain dispersed across the law of the sea, climate treaty law, international human rights law, and the general law...
The Advance Ohio Higher Education Act of 2025 legally requires public universities in Ohio to teach students specific economics content but bans instructors from addressing controversial topics in a biased manner. Rather than avoid controversial issu...
This article examines the comparative method in environmental law through a systematic bilateral analysis of the foundational environmental protection laws adopted in Ukraine in 1991 and in Lithuania in 1992. The overarching aim is to contribute to t...
This article charts the legal and technological developments that have enabled nonhuman systems, such as artificially intelligent software, to take actions that have significant consequences under private law, such as the making of contracts, the man...
Legal transplants have consolidated as a core issue of contemporary comparative law, although their study remains marked by significant theoretical and methodological tensions. This article presents a PRISMA-informed structured systematic review of 2...
This article studies the question of copyright ownership for works produced by artificial intelligence. Taking China, the United States, and the European Union as the research subjects, a systematic analysis of the legislative provisions, administrat...
Media representations play a key role in shaping how cyberbullying is understood, problematized, and regulated, particularly in relation to children and young people in the digital environment. While legal scholarship has extensively examined the cri...
This article examines the impact of the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on stolen or illegally exported cultural objects thirty years after its adoption, placing the emphasis on the legitimacy of acquiring cultural goods. The Convention has reshaped the all...
Canada played a pivotal role in the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and it was the first country in the world to incorporate the Rome Statute in its domestic law when it passed the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act (C...
This article critically examines Türkiye’s ongoing peace process with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Initiated by the ruling bloc in October 2024, the process has been conducted through an illiberal approach primarily aimed at a...
Digital activities of statutory bodies are an emerging area in environmental governance and green information systems (Green IS) research. Copyright societies in India, under Section 33 of the Copyright Act, 1957, are crucial gatekeepers of the cultu...
Peru’s tax dispute system—administrative claim, Tax Court appeal, and contentious-administrative review—has increasingly migrated toward electronic files, e-invoicing, interoperable databases, and data-driven oversight. This article...
Since 2018, the Belgian legislator has created several substantial exceptions to the traditional prohibition on agreements concerning future estates. Succession agreements make it possible to create, modify or terminate rights to a person’s fut...
