The UNCITRAL National Coordination Committee for Australia (UNCCA) invites you to attend its Seventh Annual May Seminar, to be held online as a webinar. This year we celebrate
the 25th anniversary of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce 1996, and the 20th Anniversary of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Signatures 2001. [...]
Wednesday, 12 May 2021 | 09:00 – 10.30 BST / 10.00 – 11.30 CEST COVID-19 – and state responses to it – present a threat to human rights unparalleled in the contemporary
era. At the same time, human rights offer a universal framework which guides decision-makers, ensures accountability for their actions and omissions, and renders [...]
Oren Perez (Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law) & Yotam Kaplan (Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law) have posted Tort as Meta-Regulation: The Liability of Private Transnational
Regulators (University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Vol. 43, No. [...]
Seth J. Entin (Holland & Knight, Miami), The Foreign Reverse Hybrid and the Estate Tax, 101 Tax Notes Int'l 1255 (Mar. 8, 2021): In this article, the author demonstrates that
the estate of a foreign individual who dies owning an interest in a foreign reverse hybrid entity is not subject... [...]
Dwight Golann just wrote a nice article about mediators’ experiences mediating on Zoom: “I Sometimes Catch Myself Looking Angry or Tired …” The Impact of Mediating
by Zoom, published in CPR’s Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation. Dwight solicited mediators’ reactions on the International Academy of Mediators listserv [...]
Kevin Xu of the fantastic Interconnected newsletter, and formerly of Commerce and the Obama White House, ran through a grab bag of some of the hottest topics in U.S.-China
tech. [...]
Bruce Schneier joins us to talk about artificial intelligence (AI) hacking in all its forms. He’s particularly interested in ways AI will hack humans, essentially preying
on the rough rules of thumb programmed into our wetware—that big-eyed, big-headed little beings are cute and need to have their demands met or that intimate confidences [...]
After weeks of tense confrontation between Arab protesters and Israeli police in Jerusalem—including violent clashes in recent days—cross-border conflict between Israel
and militant groups in Gaza escalated on Monday evening, reports the New York Times. [...]
The UCLA Law Review recently published a full issue on Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire. All of the articles in that issue resulted from its January 2020 law
review symposium featuring Third World Approaches to International Law scholars... [...]
Kit Barker (University of Queensland - TC Beirne School of Law) has posted Punishment in Private Law: No Such Thing (Any More) (Ch 2 in ' Elise Bant, Wayne Courtney, James
Goudkamp and Jeannie Marie Paterson (eds) Punishment and Private Law. (Oxford, Hart Publishing )(2021) pp 35-62.) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This chapter asks [...]
