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Laws, Volume 9, Issue 1

2020 March - 9 articles

Cover Story: The United Kingdom’s Data Protection Act 2018 introduces a public interest test applicable to the research processing of personal health data. The new test must distinguish between instances of health research that are in the public interest and those that are not, in a meaningful, predictable and reproducible manner. We derive from public interest theories, a concept of public interest capable of doing this. It defends there being a legal route through to processing personal health data for research purposes without individual consent but simultaneously requires all practicable steps to maximise individual control. The test we propose may work to promote the social legitimacy of data protection legislation and the research processing that it authorises without individual consent (and occasionally despite explicit objection). View this paper.
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Articles (9)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
17,791 Views
26 Pages

11 March 2020

Today’s increasingly widespread recognition of fashion’s artistic value has revamped the debate on the appropriateness of rights and remedies provided by IP law to fashion designs. From an Italian–US comparative perspective, this ar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The New Frontiers of Fashion Law)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
19,598 Views
14 Pages

20 February 2020

This article examines legal challenges to women’s reproductive rights in Ireland and the United States, arguing that backlash against reproductive rights is a consequence of the long unsettled position of women’s reproductive freedom in l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feminist Legal Theory in the 21st Century)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
8,435 Views
11 Pages

17 February 2020

The unresolved issues between the Fourth Amendment and the third-party doctrine provide first responders with challenges in their approach to meet the needs of any emergency they may be called for. A first responder needs to provide help quickly, and...

(This article belongs to the Section Criminal Justice Issues)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
14,571 Views
23 Pages

14 February 2020

The United Kingdom’s Data Protection Act 2018 introduces a new public interest test applicable to the research processing of personal health data. The need for interpretation and application of this new safeguard creates a further opportunity to craf...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Law Issues)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
40,043 Views
26 Pages

12 February 2020

Fashion is considered an element of “cultural identity”. At the same time, it has always been a dynamic phenomenon in which different styles, designs and models converged, acting both as a source of attraction for designers as well as a s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The New Frontiers of Fashion Law)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,002 Views
14 Pages

19 January 2020

In this paper, Photoshop is analyzed with a special focus on the bodies of models and a detailed analysis on the legal issues posed by this specific area. For the sake of a thorough development of the topic of this paper, it is necessary to define re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The New Frontiers of Fashion Law)
  • Reply
  • Open Access
4,117 Views
9 Pages

15 January 2020

Ford’s ‘Comments (Laws 2018, 7(4), 34; https://doi.org/10.3390/laws7040034, https://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/7/4/34)’ are biased by a partisan approach to the issues at stake and cannot be based on scientific evidence. The article &ld...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
63,816 Views
20 Pages

11 January 2020

Raphael Lemkin, the man who founded the term ‘genocide,’ did so with a view to protecting not only physical beings from systematically imposed extinction, but also protecting their cultures from the same fate. However, in the wake of the atrocities a...

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