Current quantum ambitions have become almost synonymous with the successful commercial exploitation of “previously untapped aspects of quantum theory.” However, major engineering
hurdles still stand in the way of creating scalable, fast and fault-tolerant (“error-free”) quantum devices, which are vital for successful commercial scale-up [...]
The leaders of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance, just finished their annual Summit in The Hague in The Netherlands, as Ukraine continues its existential fight against
Russia’s full-scale invasion that began more than three years ago. That invasion, preceded six years earlier by the capture of Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine, [...]
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The Department of International Law (Secretariat for Legal Affairs) of the Organization of American States (OAS) has just published in essay form the lectures delivered during
the 49th Course on International Law, which was held on 5 -16 August 2024. For more information, click here. [...]
[Serena Zanirato is Head of the Migrants’ Rights Team at StraLi and Programmes Officer at Lawyers for Justice in Libya Valerie Gabard is Co-Director at UpRights] On 4 March
2025, in an unprecedented decision, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee (or the Committee) requested Malta to urgently take all necessary measures to coordinate [...]
Joseph Kearney (Dean, Marquette), Overregulating Legal Education: [T]he Council’s proposal would mandate a startling redirection of resources. Given the integrated nature
of a program of legal education, the proposal would constitute an unprecedented invasion into the upper-level curricula of law schools, diminish substantially the [...]
Bloomberg, IRS to Lose 22% of Taxpayer Service Workers After Trump Purge: The IRS should quickly hire thousands of new taxpayer service employees so it’s prepared for next
year’s filing season, given the agency is losing more than one-fifth of those workers under Trump administration-directed cuts, the National Taxpayer Advocate... [...]
The long-awaited opinion of Advocate-General (AG) Emiliou in C-590/23 Pelham, the enduring dispute between the electronic music group Kraftwerk against hip-hop producers, and
their production company Pelham GmbH, has now been published. For those who had not been following the developments, the case has once again reached the Bundesgerichtshof [...]
