Article 8(2)(a) of Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights must be interpreted

as meaning that the term ‘addresses’ contained in that provision does not cover, in respect of a user who has uploaded files which infringe an intellectual property [...]

The effect of the Cofemel case is to render incompatible with European Union (EU) law any laws of the Member States that impose additional or more onerous criteria in the process

of bestowing copyright protection on certain works, namely those of applied art and design. [...]

Article 2(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing

of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), must be interpreted as meaning that [...]

Non-binding, explanatory legal materials are not copyrightable when created by judges who possess the authority to make and interpret the law (Banks v. Manchester, 128 U.S.

244 (1888)). The same logic applies to non-binding, explanatory legal materials created by a legislative body vested with the authority to make law. [...]

Patent law protects the technical. It is seemingly objective in terminology and application. Yet studies show that males are significantly more likely than females to be the

inventors of patented inventions. Patenting is not objective, it is gendered. The reasons for this are multiple and include the fact that patent law itself, including [...]

This article points out that the UK Human Rights Act, 1998 does not have a clear provision guaranteeing a person’s right to a nationality. Instead, this right is buried in

the European Court of Human Rights decisions of Smirnova v Russia, 2003 and Alpeyeva and Dzhalagoniya v. [...]

As the international financial framework develops it has brought with it dynamic national legislative reforms. The article establishes how the domestication of the Financial

Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations directly affects national legislative processes as the FATF mandate does not have due regard to national legislative drafting [...]

The aim of this short essay is to highlight and concisely explore—but not address in depth—some cultural aspects related to legal languages, legal interpretation and legal

translation. We would like to consider briefly the following questions: How can elements of legal language, as exemplified by proper names and euphemisms, be connected [...]

Territorial exclusivity clauses are so ubiquitous and ingrained in the statutes and regulations of sports governing bodies (SGBs) that, until now, they seem to have gone largely

unnoticed by members of the sporting community. In recent years, however, they have been challenged by means of antitrust complaints and occasional litigation: a [...]