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After Privacy: The Rise Of Facebook, The Fall Of Wikileaks, And Singapore’S Personal Data Protection Act 2012, Simon Chesterman

Simon Chesterman

This article discusses the changing ways in which information is produced, stored, and shared — exemplified by the rise of social-networking sites like Facebook and controversies over the activities of WikiLeaks — and the implications for privacy and data protection. Legal protections of privacy have always been reactive, but the coherence of any legal regime has also been undermined by the lack of a strong theory of what privacy is. There is more promise in the narrower field of data protection. Singapore, which does not recognise a right to privacy, has positioned itself as an e-commerce hub but had no …

The Law Of Indicators On Women’S Human Rights: Unmet Promises And Global Challenges, Marta Infantino

Marta Infantino

Global indicators on human rights (HRs) aim to measure HRs scores against HRs standards. In other words, they aim to measure legal phenomena against legal benchmarks.

Despite HRs indicators’ reliance on legal knowledge, lawyers have so far neither made substantial contributions to their production, nor studied in depth the legal implications of their uses. The current state-of-the-art in the world of HRs indicators is the result of an ongoing process led by bureaucrats, economists, statisticians, and activists with limited legal training. It is these actors who are developing a new body of professional knowledge, and a new technology of governance …

Государственная Власть И Местное Самоуправление В Израиле, Leonid G. Berlyavskiy

Leonid G. Berlyavskiy

In the article features of the government and local self-government in Israel are considered. The urgency of their studying is caused by that in this country there is no Constitution in the form of the consolidated act that pulls together it with English State-legal tradition. The democratic political mode has affirmed as Israel, elections in authorities were never cancelled. The parliamentary form of government has predetermined legal status and the competence of the President of the State, the Knesset and the Government. The local self-government system promotes the statement of democratic principles of the Israeli society

Политические Процессы В Регионе Ближнего И Среднего Востока, Leonid G. Berlyavskiy

Leonid G. Berlyavskiy

Studying of political processes in the countries of the Middle East represents considerable interest because the given region is near to southern borders of Russia, other Post-Soviet countries and should mention their political, economic and humanitarian interests. In a number of the region countries there are astable political modes (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.), their constitutional development is braked and is affected by system of the international sanctions (the United Nations, the European Union) or State Law of the leading states of the West. On political development of some the countries (Islamic Republic Iran, the Lebanese Republic, Algeria, etc.) essential if not …

Diapositives Versus Movies – The Inner Dynamics Of The Law And Its Comparative Account, Mauro Bussani, Ugo Mattei

Mauro Bussani

The paper is the introduction to the Cambridge Companion to Comparative Law. The book (as well as its introduction) goes through the variety of possible nuances of comparative law. Acknowledging that diverse working comparative methods can all be useful tools to the understanding of the legal phenomena, this preface sets up two provisos. One is that any method one relies on should enable the researcher to stay close to what the law is, to how the law lives in the different settings – regardless of what one would like (i.e. regardless of what any kind of personal and cultural bias …

The Education Of Special Needs Children In Uganda: Lessons From The American Legal Environment, David Brian Dennison

David Brian Dennison

This article is a comparative treatment of special education law and policy in Uganda and the United States. The purpose of the article provide additional perspective for those seeking to promote and champion the rights of special needs students in Uganda.

A Call For Stricter Appellate Review Of Decisions On Forum Non Conveniens, Nicholas A. Fromherz

Nicholas A Fromherz

Forum non conveniens has been criticized as anachronistic and unfair. Critics say that it amounts to little more than economic protectionism, serving as a pretext for the dismissal of suits brought against domestic corporate defendants. Even if one does not view the doctrine as inherently flawed, it is undeniable that its application has been extremely uneven owing to the broad discretion exercised by district courts ruling on the issue. Troubling in any circumstances, the misapplication of forum non conveniens is all the more so because of the high stakes pertaining to the matter. When a case is dismissed on forum …