Societies, Vol. 15, Pages 287: Descriptive Study on State and Trait Anxiety Levels in University Students and Their Potential Influencing Factors Societies doi: 10.3390/soc15100287
Authors: Itziar Quevedo-Bayona María-Camino Escolar-Llamazares María-Ángeles Martínez-Martín Francisco Luis Adell Carrasco [...]
Written by Gregor Erbach. The forthcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP30 – to be held in Belém, Brazil, in November 2025, is a decisive moment in international
climate action. By September 2025, countries have to submit the third round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC 3.0) that will determine whether the targets [...]
This article addresses the challenges faced by tax administrations, organizations, and policymakers arising from the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Several organizations
such as the OECD, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the European Union (EU) have defined AI, however, finding a single definition [...]
The right to an explanation remains one of the most contentiously discussed topics within the European Union (EU) data protection law. This article explores this emerging right
in the specific context of credit scoring, where multiple legal frameworks intersect and a holistic approach is therefore required. [...]
Le conseil de l'ordre du barreau de Paris veut rompre avec l'image d'un monde qui se protège, en renforçant la place du plaignant et la transparence au sein de sa justice
disciplinaire. Terminées, les accusations d'entre soi et d'inaction face aux dérives de la profession d'avocat. [...]
Worker cooperatives in the gig economy can involve large and heterogeneous memberships, which makes them vulnerable to member opportunism depleting collective resources. External
shocks may present another challenge for collective resource management. This raises the question of how heterogeneous cooperatives design rules to mitigate opportunistic [...]
This memoir describes the 40-year unfolding, project by project, of my sociolegal field research on legal and regulatory processes. It provides brief accounts of my interactions
and interviews with regulatory officials and with businesspeople responsible for regulatory compliance. [...]
Large, listed companies are under increasing pressure to respond to critical issues such as climate change, modern slavery, and the protection of First Nations' heritage. Much
of this pressure is exerted by civil society actors through corporate governance mechanisms, including leveraging shareholder rights to lobby firms. [...]
This article focuses on the roles of insiders or outsiders in order to theorize the role that human agents play in systems change. It asks: (1) what strengths and weaknesses
do insiders and outsiders have respectively as agents of change; and (2) what strategies are available to use these insights to increase, or to limit, the prospects [...]
