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4 Dec 0001, 4:00 pm
R (Edwards & Pallikaropoulos) v. Environment Agency et al, 11 April 2013, read CJEU judgment, and read Opinion of A-G Kokott,
and the Civil Procedure Rules 45.41 to 45.44, in force from 1 April 2013, with Practice Direction 45
Twin developments, both of which are important for those involved in environmental cases. They emerge from the UK’s treaty obligations flowing from the Aarhus Convention under which it is obliged to ensure that environmental cases are not… [read post]
24 May 2013, 8:09 am
On May 23, 2013, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“OPC”) issued a position paper (the “Paper”) proposing revisions to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”) to better align PIPEDA with the risks facing a modern information economy. Privacy Commissioner of Canada Jennifer Stoddart addressed the release of the Paper in her remarks at the IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium, stating that “[i]t is increasingly… [read post]
24 May 2013, 8:00 am
by Michael W. Lewis
[Michael W. Lewis is a Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University where he teaches International Law and the Law of War.]
On drones there was not that much new from President Obama yesterday, but what he emphasized tells us something about where the debate on drones remains. Echoing statements that have been previously made by a number of his advisers he challenged the continuing claims that drones are inaccurate, counterproductive and continue to cause… [read post]
24 May 2013, 6:21 am
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Robert Buckholz, partner and co-coordinator of the Corporate and Finance Group at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and is based on a Sullivan & Cromwell publication.
Yesterday the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) proposed rules and interpretive guidance regarding the application of the U.S. regulatory regime to cross-border security-based swap (“SBS”) transactions. The proposals also address the impact of… [read post]
24 May 2013, 6:19 am
by Kevin Jon Heller
A couple of people have suggested to me that I should be celebrating Obama’s adoption of the “near certainty” standard, because it is more protective of civilians than the principle of proportionality. I will not celebrate the standard, for two very simple reasons. First, I don’t believe for a moment that Obama will actually enforce it, no matter how pure his intentions. If you disagree, consider the following hypothetical (and obviously counterfactual)… [read post]
24 May 2013, 6:16 am
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Mathias Siems of Durham University and David Cabrelli of Edinburgh University, UK.
There has been an exponential growth in interest in comparative company law in recent years. For example, in the period from 2002 to 2011, no fewer than ten monographs or edited collections were published exploring this new field of enquiry. The burgeoning literature was mirrored by an increase in University Postgraduate courses or programs in comparative company… [read post]
24 May 2013, 4:40 am
Google's WebM/VP8 video codec faces three kinds of patent issues that make it unlikely to be adopted as an Internet standard anytime soon:While Google reached a license agreement with 11 companies that identified to MPEG LA patents they believe read on VP8, an open source community leader believes the license terms for implementers of the standard are irreconcilable with key aspects of software freedom and unworkable for open source. It's a FRAND-zero license: zero license fees, but other terms… [read post]
24 May 2013, 4:20 am
Mousa & Ors, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Defence [2013] EWHC 1412 (Admin) (24 May 2013) – Read judgment
Remember the Iraq War? Following the 2003 invasion Britain remained in control of Basra, a city in South Eastern Iraq, until withdrawal over six years later on 30 April 2009. 179 British troops died during that period. But despite there over four years having passed since withdrawal, the fallout from the war and occupation is still being resolved by the UK… [read post]
23 May 2013, 9:49 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller
There is a classic jury instruction that reads, “[a] witness who is willfully false in one material part of his or her testimony is to be distrusted in others. You may reject the whole testimony of a witness who willfully has testified falsely as to a material point, unless, from all the evidence, you believe the probability of truth favors his or her testimony in other particulars.” I immediately thought of that instruction when I read Obama’s… [read post]
23 May 2013, 9:48 pm
I just reported on Nokia's new RFID-related U.S. patent infringement lawsuit against HTC in the Southern District of California, which others also discovered (Bloomberg, Priorsmart). What others haven't noticed yet -- but will presumably notice later today -- is that Nokia has also filed a second ITC complaint against HTC. Unlike the San Diego complaint, the ITC complaint hasn't become publicly available yet, but on the ITC's electronic document system I found this list of confidential exhibits… [read post]
23 May 2013, 9:31 pm
William A. Schabas (Middlesex Univ.), Yvonne McDermott (Bangor Univ.), & Niamh Hayes (Institute for International Criminal Investigations) have published The Ashgate Research Companion to International Criminal Law: Critical Perspectives (Ashgate 2013). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:International criminal law is at a crucial point in its history and development, and the time is right for practitioners, academics and students to take stock of the lessons learnt from the past… [read post]
23 May 2013, 8:16 pm
On April 3 I explained that Google faced (at least) a double hurdle in its quest for a U.S. import ban against Microsoft's Xbox gaming console after a March 22 preliminary ruling on remand by an Administrative Law Judge. The remand initial determination found that Google had waived its indirect infringement arguments, but even if it had not, the outcome would have been the same: a dismissal due to a finding of no violation whatsoever.The Commission, the six-member decision making body at… [read post]
23 May 2013, 5:22 pm
Depuis le 30 avril 2013, l’Aéroport International d’Orlando permettra de rationalisera le processus des arrivées internationales de façon électronique, ce qui rend le processus sans plus de papier et remplacé par le formulaire I-94. Douane et Protection des Frontières Américaines (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) qui fait de l’aéroport le premier de la nation à aller vers le nouveau processus.
Alors que… [read post]
23 May 2013, 5:13 pm
Reed Smith’s Global Regulatory Enforcement Law blog features a post on the recent publication of the application decree to the “French Sunshine Act” by the French Ministry of Health. “A Brave New World? The ‘French Sunshine Act’ imposes online disclosure of contracts with HCPs, as well as of payments of ‘advantages’ to HCPs, dating back to 01 January 2012,” written by Daniel Kadar, discusses the specific ways and means that health care… [read post]
23 May 2013, 4:48 pm
Rebecca J. Cook (University of Toronto Faculty of Law) has published Human Rights and Maternal Health: Exploring the Effectiveness of the Alyne Decision. The article is available on readcube. Here is the abstract: This article explores the effectiveness of the... [read post]
23 May 2013, 2:01 pm
Our friends at Bereskin & Parr LLP recently announced the publication of a unique resource written to assist trademark attorneys and scholars better understand the intricacies of dilution law. Below is an excerpt from their Spring 2013 newsletter: We are … Continue reading → [read post]
23 May 2013, 12:43 pm
I posted a short piece at Chinafile.org last week on China’s food safety challenges. The occasion for the post was the arrest of 63 people in China for selling fake lamb meat made of rat, fox, and other meats. The “conversation” includes comments/responses from Isabel Hilton (ChinaDialogue.net), John Balzano (BU Law), Alexa Oleson (formerly of AP), and Jeremy Goldkorn (Danwei.org).
I’ve included my post in full below, but take a look at the Chinafile page for the… [read post]
23 May 2013, 12:30 pm
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
May 23, 2013
Fact Sheet: U.S. Policy Standards and Procedures for the Use of Force in Counterterrorism Operations Outside the United States and Areas of Active Hostilities
Since his first day in office, President Obama has been clear that the United States will use all available tools of national power to protect the American people from the terrorist threat posed by al-Qa’ida and its associated forces. The President has also made clear… [read post]
23 May 2013, 11:15 am
In the ongoing saga of governmental antitrust investigations of Google, recent weeks have witnessed a new level of rhetoric and disingenuous use of the regulatory process to handicap, rather than promote, competition and innovation. The current case in point relates once again to search neutrality, but this time complaining rivals remarkably object to getting exactly what they’ve asked for over many years.
Just a little less than four months after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) closed… [read post]
23 May 2013, 10:49 am
From friend of the blog, Dara Chernyeva, please consider the following international conference which touches on labor and employment law topics: I'm writing to you to share the call for papers for a International Comparative Sciences Symposium in Sofia which... [read post]