Monthly Archives: October, 2024
Przemysław Pałka, ‘Consumers, online environments, and privacy’
ABSTRACT Consumer privacy law is grounded in the paradigm of individuals’ control over their personal data. Controllers are expected to publish privacy policies, and individuals are expected to ‘self-manage’ their privacy. However, empirical studies demonstrate that consumers do not read privacy policies and that these documents often do not contain the information necessary to engage […]
Jia Wang, ‘Reconstructing the copyright idea/expression dichotomy for video games’
ABSTRACT Video game players do not just engage in ready-made gameplay but also actively take part in the construction of these experiences: they bring their desires, anticipations and previous experiences with them, and interpret and reflect their experience of gameplay in that light. Video games pose two challenges for a copyright assessment. First, should a […]
Chua and Ang, ‘Punitive Damages: Intradisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives’
Abstract This article aims to elucidate the reasons for an award for punitive damages in private law. In particular, two research methods are employed simultaneously. First, employing a comparative approach between Singapore and the United States, various nuances in judicial attitudes emerge and give rise to a trove of data for interpretation. Second, an intra-disciplinary […]
Tun-Jen Chiang, ‘The Economic Structure of Trade Secret Law’
ABSTRACT The standard economic account of trade secret law focuses on providing incentives for creating new inventions. The incentive-to-invent theory, however, provides little explanation for why the key doctrinal features of trade secret law are structured the way that they are. For example, providing ex ante incentives to invent does not easily explain the requirement […]
Alexandra Braun, ‘Testamentary Responsibility’
ABSTRACT Testamentary freedom – the freedom to determine the distribution of our assets after we die – is often described as the bedrock or organising principle of succession law. In fact, for many people testamentary freedom is something we have always had, should continue to have, and is therefore both self-evident and untouchable. This emphasis on testamentary freedom and, […]
‘Northern Ireland: “An Interim Law of Defamation?” The Statutory Review of the Defamation Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 in Context’
Midway through the Long Vacation, the Northern Ireland Department of Finance quietly published its statutorily mandated Report on the Review of the Defamation Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (the Report). The appearance of the Report fulfils the requirement, in Section 11 of the Act, that the Department should ‘keep under review all relevant developments pertaining to […]
‘EU copyright law roundup – third trimester of 2024’
Now that the summer is formally over it is time for the third trimester of the 2024 roundup of EU copyright law. In this edition, we update you on what has happened between July and September 2024 in EU copyright law – all the way from the CJEU, through Advocate General (AG) Opinions, to important […]
The Intersections of Tort and Compensation Law: University of Auckland Law School and Online, 13-14 February 2025
We invite Tort and Compensation system researchers and teachers in Australia and New Zealand to join us in Auckland or online on 13-14 February 2025 to share research and teaching approaches about tort law, and compensation systems. We are delighted to be joined by The Honourable Sir Stephen Kós KNZM and The Honourable Justice Peter […]
지영천 and Youngdoc Seo, ‘Who Benefits from Droit De Suite?’
ABSTRACT Droit de Suite has emerged as a topic of consideration in several countries. This study defines artworks as alternative investments to analyze the flow of transactions in art market over n periods. Under certainty, where the seller has price-setting power, the Droit de Suite does not affect the artist’s profit or social welfare. However, […]
JS Liptrap, ‘The Dearth of Comparative Law Courses in the Curriculum: Implications for Practice and What Law Librarians Can Do About It’
ABSTRACT Commentators often lament that the American legal curriculum does not adequately focus on comparative law teaching, and that this reality has important adverse consequences for legal practice. Put simply, American lawyers are not prepared for the transnational challenges that go hand-in-hand with globalization. The natural solution for the law school would be to inject […]