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17 Dec 2010, 9:21 am
Omega, a Swiss company that manufactures watches in Switzerland, did not authorize the importation of the watches by Costco, despite the fact that Costco legally purchased the watches abroad. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 9:02 am
Late last year, Nebraska prison officials said they bought sodium thiopental made by Naari, a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Switzerland. [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 6:51 am
Figure two plots the same set of countries, excluding Switzerland for which data was not available, along two variables: the increase in debt between 2000 and 2008 and the change in GDP between 2008 and 2011. [read post]
30 Nov 2011, 12:36 pm
Very few states have actually invoked universal jurisdiction since WWII (the study lists: Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Senegal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, the US). 7. [read post]
12 Jul 2024, 10:52 am
[1] If anyone in Europe understands the difficulties of a federal regime of recordkeeping, it’s Switzerland. [read post]
17 Sep 2024, 9:03 pm
In October 2023, Switzerland issued a RASFF notification triggered by high levels of capsaicinoids in hot chip tortillas manufactured by a Czech company. [read post]
6 Sep 2022, 7:29 am
Industrial capacity is not synonymous with technological prowess. [read post]
3 Mar 2021, 6:16 pm
The full report of the Swiss NCP (Initial Assessment: Specific Instance regarding UBS Group AG submitted by the Society for Threatened Peoples Switzerland) follows along with the OECD Watch analysis and my own brief observations. [read post]
29 Aug 2023, 8:10 am
Pix Credit © LC Backer August 2'23This from Robert McCorquodale of the UN Working Group for Business and Human Rights:The Working Group on Business and Human Rights is beginning to draft a report on Investors, ESG and Human Rights. [read post]
9 May 2013, 9:22 am
One of the central policy issues injected into the current case of AMP v. [read post]
6 Dec 2018, 6:43 am
This Convention shall cover all international human rights and those rights recognized under domestic law.Article 3 of the Legally Binding Instrument on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises was scheduled for discussion on 17 October 2018, from 15 to 18 PM, together with article 4 (Definitions).Written comments specific to Article 3 were submitted by:2 experts1 group of five states (Brazil, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Chile)7 states (Chile, China, India, Mexico, Peru, South… [read post]
18 Sep 2017, 1:36 am
The type of ex post information matters – almanac questions exhibit greater hindsight bias than real world events or case scenarios.Mark Schweizer (President elect, Federal Patent Court, Switzerland) added that people tend to incorrectly believe that others are more susceptible to cognitive biases than they are themselves (“bias blind spot”). [read post]
18 Nov 2015, 1:00 pm
Egon Schiele's Dead City III - Stolen from Fritz GrunbaumIn 1998, District Attorney Robert Morgenthau seized Egon Schiele's Dead City III from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. [read post]
18 Jul 2023, 7:12 pm
Broekman, Knowledge in Change: The Semiotics of Cognition and Conversation (Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2023). [read post]
2 Nov 2021, 6:59 pm
A business and human rights framework treaty: Contours and challengesPanellists include Prof Peter Muchlinski (SOAS, University of London), Dr Eva Jueptner (University of Dundee), Dr Alex Ansong (Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration), Prof Dr Markus Krajewski (FAU, Germany), Dr Nicholas Bueno (UniDistance Suisse, Switzerland), Prof. [read post]
24 Jun 2022, 6:54 am
Switzerland’s new statute likewise ping-ponged between Parliament and a popular mandate, while the design of the EU’s proposed due diligence directive was rejected repeatedly by its Regulatory Scrutiny Board. [read post]
27 Nov 2018, 6:32 am
One year ago, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize for its advocacy that contributed to the first legally binding treaty ban of nuclear weapons: the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, also known as the nuclear ban treaty. [read post]
19 Jun 2024, 5:37 am
He completed his doctoral studies at University of Lausanne (Switzerland) for which he was awarded the 2020 Prix de Faculté of the University of Lausanne. [read post]
23 Apr 2015, 7:08 am
It’s nearly 10:00 a.m. one Friday in late February, and I’m getting antsy. [read post]
17 Oct 2022, 12:28 am
Just over 2 years after the SPC waiver Regulation (EU) 2019/933 (amending the Regulation (EC) No 469/2009) entered into force (1 July 2019), and only a few months after the end of the transitional provisions for application of the SPC waiver under Art. 5(10) of the Regulation (2 July 2022), I have decided to follow up on my previous post on the SPC manufacturing and stockpiling waiver provisions. [read post]
