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25 Feb 2019, 12:42 pm by Rebecca Tushnet
  ICANN has staff but can be described as a world wide community, always talking about participants—gov’ts, businesses, lawyers, civil society participants, academics, other individuals. [read post]
13 Apr 2018, 6:03 am
Court of Appeals, Third Circuit), on Saturday, April 7, 2018 Tags: Boards of Directors, Capital structure, Controlling shareholders, Dual-class stock, Securities regulation, Shareholder voting Agency Conflicts Around the World Posted by Erwan Morellec (EPFL and Swiss Finance Institute), Boris Nikolov (University of Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute), and Norman Schürhoff (University of Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute),… [read post]
30 Mar 2018, 11:46 am by Marta Requejo
Independently on whether one agrees or not  with the final outcome, for PIL lawyers and amateurs the judgment (for very busy people at least the press release) is certainly worth reading. [read post]
26 Jan 2018, 7:28 am
This is really interesting: More than 500 Swiss firms in United States and more than 3,500 business locations with a (inaudible) — creation of a half a million jobs. [read post]
21 Dec 2017, 7:09 am
Too busy playing in the snow to want to keep up with the latest IP news? [read post]
10 Aug 2017, 3:41 pm
Gemma Barrett (Bristows) explains what this means.More on broccoli, tomatoes, and the patentability of a plant or animal obtained by means of an essentially biological processFurther to the blog post above, Kat friend Florica Rus considers issues raised as a result of these amendments.Copyright protection of minimalist furniture designMark Schweizer reports on the recent decision made by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court clarifying the requirements for the "individual character" of… [read post]
21 Mar 2017, 4:56 am by Matthias Weller
Gallen, described the Swiss legal system as a rather isolationist “island” in cross-border insolvency matters, yet an island “in motion” since certain steps for reform of Chapter 11 on cross-border insolvency within the Federal Law on Private International Law of 1987 (Bundesgesetz über das Internationale Privatrecht, IPRG) are being currently undertaken (see the Federal Governments Proposal; see the Explanatory Report). [read post]
16 Mar 2017, 7:08 pm
Illustrating this exceptionality, consider the fact that hundreds of years of Swiss banking secrecy (see HERE) was eviscerated only by the United States as the Swiss were justifiably concerned that failure to comply with the American directive would imperil the Swiss economy (see HERE) The global taxation regime of the IRS through FATCA forces foreign banks to comply with U.S. directive or face economic sanctions. [read post]
6 Feb 2017, 11:20 am by Ron Coleman
Jeanne Fromer asks, in the Stanford Law Review: What do a trendy kosher restaurant in SoHo, an independent movie about a serial killer, and a Swiss watchmaker have in common? [read post]
14 Jan 2017, 8:00 am by Melinda L. McLellan and Emily Fedeles
Department of Commerce, the Swiss Federal Council and the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) issued press releases announcing that an agreement has been reached on a new cross-border data transfer mechanism, the Swiss-U.S. [read post]
13 Dec 2016, 3:30 am by Eric B. Meyer
City Council believes that it will help to close the wage gaps based on gender, national origin, and race. [read post]
22 Nov 2016, 2:04 pm
The Forum retained a string fidelity to its objectives and scope of organization:The UN Human Rights Council, under paragraph 12 of its resolution 17/4, established the Forum to serve as a key global platform for stakeholders to ”discuss trends and challenges in the implementation of the Guiding Principles and promote dialogue and cooperation on issues linked to business and human rights. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 1:25 pm
Forum on Business and Human Rights.The great highlight of that session was the moving and quite powerful presentation of Laura Zúniga Cáceres, the daughter of Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores, a Honduran human rights defender and co-founder of the Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras (Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH)) (COPINH blog here), who was recently murdered. [read post]
9 Nov 2016, 9:37 am
| Book review: Computer Crimes and Digital Investigations | European business urge continued UK involvement in UPC on eve of Competitiveness Council meeting | Wednesday Whimsies | Book review: Global Governance of Intellectual Property in the 21st Century [read post]
2 Nov 2016, 3:44 pm
| Book review: Computer Crimes and Digital Investigations | European business urge continued UK involvement in UPC on eve of Competitiveness Council meeting | Wednesday Whimsies | Book review: Global Governance of Intellectual Property in the 21st Century [read post]
24 Oct 2016, 11:58 pm by Ben Reeve-Lewis
Business considerations aside can you just step back for a second and see how mad this is? [read post]