Key PointsOver the past 10 years, China’s data law regime has gradually come into shape to fulfil the dual purposes of data protection and utilization. Chinese data law is
undergirded by three pillars, namely, ‘Cybersecurity Law’, ‘Data Security Law’, and ‘Personal Information Protection Law’.These laws employ a horizontal [...]
Key PointsThe European Data Protection Board's opinion on the interplay between the General Data Protection Regulation and the Clinical Trials Regulation (CTR) contains logical
fallacies.The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) argues that consent is generally not an appropriate legal basis for the processing of personal data for primary [...]
Key PointsCompliance with data protection legislation shall be subject to control by an independent authority, also for the judiciary. However, in order to safeguard the independence
of the judiciary, both the General Data Protection Regulation and the Law Enforcement Directive explicitly state that national Data Protection Authorities are not [...]
Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training at the University of Nottingham and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilEP/L015463/1Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council10.13039/501100000266EP/M02315X/1EP/T022493/1EP/R03351X/1 [...]
This article analyses how intellectual property rights (IPRs) affect access to non-personal data (NPD). In so doing, it homes in on a quasi-IPR, trade secrecy, and shows how
applying it to NPD can lead to the overexpansion of IP protection. The risks of overprotection relate to the perpetuity of trade secret protection and the predominant [...]
AbstractIf the Nuremberg Trials represent the birth of international criminal law (ICL), then the public relations efforts of their personnel represent the birth of ‘communication
in international criminal justice’. This aspect of the Allied post-World War II prosecutions of Nazi war criminals has been hitherto underexplored in the literature. [...]
AbstractThe impact of social media — in particular Twitter — on the field of international criminal justice cannot be overstated. Thanks to an active community of online
commentators made up primarily of academics, researchers, staff of non-governmental organizations and journalists, Twitter is a vibrant place to monitor the pulse [...]
AbstractUkraine exhibits two, seemingly contradictory, attitudes towards the International Criminal Court (ICC). On the one hand, it lodged two ad hoc declarations, accepting
the ICC’s jurisdiction over certain alleged crimes occurring on its territory since late 2013; on the other hand, the desirability of ratifying the Rome Statute [...]
