Law
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China Should Not Over-Rely On Its Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law
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The AFSL is unlikely to be an effective tool as its enforcement would discourage Western companies from continually operating their businesses in China.
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Equality and Efficiency in the Economics of Insurance
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Can sex be used as a risk classifier to set insurance premium rates if there is an indisputable statistical correlation?
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Denmark’s Zero Asylum Policy and the Plight of Syrian Women Refugees
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Denmark, which is considered as the frontrunner in gender equality, has thus paradoxically created a harsh and inhospitable environment for Syrian refugees, and especially women refugees.
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Debating Privacy in Public in the Age of Surveillance
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Renewed attention to the meaning of privacy in the context of widespread surveillance suggests that conventional understandings of privacy are decidedly insufficient. Yet, is it even possible for us to recognize something occurring in public as private?
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The Civil Serpent: On Meta’s Regulation of Free Speech
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How should governments respond to the regulatory challenges presented by private companies that increasingly perform state-like functions?
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Mental Autonomy and the Internet: A Reflection on Digital Propaganda in India
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In light of Indian political parties utilizing their online presence as a tool to polarize communities, radicalize internet users and canvass votes, it has become especially pertinent to explore the right of mental autonomy in India.
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The UK’s Pension Bill Amendment is an Attack on Democratic Dialogue
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The UK government’s amendment to the Pensions Bill empowers the Secretary of State to issue guidance to administrators of public sector pension schemes to ensure that their investment decisions will not conflict with the government’s foreign and defence policy. None of the government’s justifications are convincing.
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Hyperlegality And Criminal Justice: How India Strips its Dissenters of their Human Rights and Constitutional Protections
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The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1937 (UAPA) is India’s primary anti-terrorism legislation that is widely used by the government as a political tool to authorise rampant arbitrary arrests of any dissenter, protestor or social activist whose opinion is not in congruence with the ideological aspirations of the government. The illegality of such arbitrary arrests is…
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Returning to the State of Nature: The Hidden Deviousness within the Texas Abortion Law
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Since the Supreme Court ordered to uphold the New Texas Abortion Law last week – making abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy practically illegal – opponents have been concerned not only with the law’s unconstitutional content and its implications for women’s rights all over the country, but also with how the law successfully bypassed…
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Artificial Intelligence: Implications for human dignity and governance
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Nayef Al-Rodhan Recent years have seen a surge in discussions about the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI). These debates have predominantly featured issues related to autonomy in driverless cars, or the moral dilemmas of deploying ‘killer robots’, though the reach and impact of AI-based technologies is, of course, far more widespread. AI is a widely…