The Covid-19 pandemic has become a true stress test for the legal systems of the worst hit countries. Faced with a health crisis situation, many national governments have become
the protagonists in the adoption of difficult measures severely restricting their citizens fundamental rights to the detriment of the powers usually entrusted to [...]
Many countries are implementing emergency releases of people from prison to mitigate the spread of Covid-19. Such measures, while critical to public health, can enable the
unjust release from prison of politically connected and wealthy individuals convicted of corruption offences, thereby undermining the rule of law and democratic values [...]
Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, Ahead of Print. This paper discusses comparative law and literature as an approach to studying law culturally, addressing
how the study of literature from the standpoint of comparative law identifies one way of coding legal cultural knowledge in literature. [...]
Medical Law International, Ahead of Print. The unveiling of the world’s first gene-edited twins by biophysics researcher He Jiankui generated much discussion about Chinese
legal and ethical frameworks for biotechnology. In response, the highest Chinese legislative body, the National People’s Congress, and the two responsible departments [...]
Common Law World Review, Ahead of Print. This article discusses various aspects of the New Zealand legal system’s response to the 15 March Christchurch mosques attack. It
also considers New Zealand’s response to the attack from the perspective of the academic literature on the policymaking process and argues that the response to [...]
Common Law World Review, Ahead of Print. Fifty-six individuals were charged with terrorism between December 2001 when Canada first enacted its antiterrorism criminal offences
and December 2019. Not a single such individual was associated with a far-right group or espoused a far-right ideology. [...]
Crime, Media, Culture, Ahead of Print. Drawing on 147 news accounts and five policy documents on the heroin and opioid crisis in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania published between
2016 and 2018, our analysis highlights how media portrayals of opioid users as both tragic victims and public nuisance prompted a schizoid governmental response that [...]
The prime motive of the present article is to juxtapose the emerging and trending “Right to Repair” with Indian trade mark law to assess or find as to whether the exercise
of this “Right to Repair” can tantamount to infringement of a trade mark in accordance with Indian Trade Mark Law, or whether this right is implicitly recognized [...]
The agenda of Digital Sequence Information (DSI) on genetic resources was taken up for international debate at the 14th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological
Diversity (CBD hereinafter) in 2018. The issue is of great significance to governments of the member countries as the new use of sequence information is replacing [...]
Public funded research and inventions play a central role in stimulating innovation in any country. Last year, the Government of India stealthily notified the Draft Model Guidelines
on Implementation of IPR Policy for Academic Institutions. The draft guidelines aim to provide a structure embedded in intellectual property rights (IPR) for commercializing [...]
