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2025
April
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Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law
-Chloë Kennedy's talk will focus on her new book - Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law - published with Cambridge University Press. Chloë will present some of the main findings and core arguments of her book.
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The Right of Publicity in Japan
-The recent rapid development of AI technology has led to problems of unauthorized use of human voice and portrait, such as AI cover and deepfakes. The legal mechanism for the protection of human voice and portrait varies widely among jurisdictions, such as the state right of publicity in the US,...
March
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Responsibility and Accountability for Conducts in Cyberspace
-The applicability of international law to cyber operations is nowadays consensual. States, scholars and other actors are now discussing questions pertaining to the interpretation of the rules and principles of international law in this specific context. While some States have developed, together with an increasing number of non-state actors such...
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Trade Usages in the Context of and Beyond the CISG (Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods)
-This seminar was cancelled
The presentation explores the concept of trade usages, the attitude of developing states during the drafting process of the CISG to trade usages, and the extent to which the concerns of developing states in relation to trade usages have materialised. Namely, the delegates from the developed states were mostly in...
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Power Contestations in the Use of Agri-food Data: Towards a Sustainability Governance Approach
-Law is intrinsically embedded in politics. Prevailing dynamics and norms can significantly impact new legal rules; hence, there is a need to interrogate the spectrum of engagements of any given subject or phenomenon with the law. In the context of global governance of food and agricultural data, this paper examines...
February
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The Cross-Border Recognition of Changes in the Legal Sex of Transgender Persons: The Landmark ECJ ruling in the Mirin case by Professor Alina Tryfonidou
-Transgender persons are among the most vulnerable and marginalised groups in the EU, yet they remain notably absent from EU primary and secondary legislation. The ECJ’s recent ruling in Mirin constitutes a significant milestone in advancing transgender rights under EU law. The main question in this case was whether EU Member States...
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The Ownership of Carbon by Professor Jill Robbie
-Tree-planting and peatland restoration are nature-based solutions to climate change because trees sequester CO2 emissions from the atmosphere and peatland restoration prevents further emissions taking place. One way to encourage landowners to undertake these activities is carbon trading, whereby landowners and developers receive credits for planting or restoration, and the...
January
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Canada's Journey with Online Harms Legislation
-Canada has never passed comprehensive intermediary liability laws, relying instead on piecemeal laws, primarily in defamation, and indirectly in privacy and competition law. Meanwhile, the UK and EU are onto their second-generation laws to address online harms. The Government of Canada undertook a multi-year consultation to develop legislation and introduced...
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Regime Creation, Raw Data and Intellectual Property: Holding Power and Opening Doors
-Intellectual property (IP) and information can have a significant impact on responses to societal challenges; yet regimes created to address challenges (such as health, biodiversity and energy security) engage with legal regimes relating to IP and information in a variety of ways – from undue deference to overly proactive intervention....
