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On 6 June, IGIR fellow Dr. Iveta Alexovičová, Assistant Professor of International Economic Law, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, delivered a lecture entilted "Substance alongside procedure - a lesson learned?".
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Was the original revised ISDS System not enough? It seems that the traditional international investment agreements (IIA) concluded by States do no longer enjoy the legitimacy from civil society and academics. Critique has especially been directed at Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), which...
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Copyright law was designed to protect the original works of human authors. This is evident in the wording of legislations across continents, as copyright ownership is granted to natural or legal persons.
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The world of copyright is never at a standstill and the latest trend to create some buzz in the field is called: blockchain.
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On Saturday 16 of April an earthquake struck Ecuador. At 7.8 on the Richter scale, it levelled various towns of the province of Manabí, in particular Pedernales, Manta and Portoviejo. At current estimates, it has killed more than 500 persons. Many of them died a slow death, after days of being...
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Refugee crisis and migration may obviously have a lot of different sources. The current refugee crisis in Europe is obviously strongly related to the war in Syria. However, quite often migration and hence a stream of refugees, can also be caused by natural disasters, even by climate change. Some...