News about Law

Professor Helle Porsdam med i podcast fra Folkemødet 2023 (In Danish)

Professor Helle Porsdam med i podcast fra Folkemødet 2023.

Professor Helle Porsdam participates in New Books Network podcast

Professor Helle Porsdam is interviewed about Science as a Cultural Human Right for a New Books Network podcast.

Anja Møller Pedersen defended her Ph.D thesis

On 7 June 2023, Anja Møller Pedersen successfully defended her PhD Thesis on ‘The Fundamental Rights to Privacy and Data Protection in the EU Legal Order: Reconciling privacy rights and rationales’.

New visiting researcher at iCourts - Nurbanu Hayir

15 August 2023 - 30 June 2023

CEPRI researcher attends Annual Meeting of UN Special Procedures mandate holders in Geneva

Dr Sorcha MacLeod, CEPRI Associate Professor and a member of the UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries recently attended the 29th Annual Meeting of Special Rapporteurs, Independent Experts and Chairs of Working…

Double grant success for waste and circular economy law research

Dr Katrien Steenmans, postdoc on the Circular Supply Chains – identifying legal risks (CirCus) project, has been awarded two small grants.

New visitor at CeBIL - Chih-hsing Ho

7 August - 12 August

Salvatore Caserta appointed Associate Professor

From 1 July 2023

New Associate Professor at iCourts – Marc Schack

From 1 July 2023

Special PRIVACY issue, “Creation, Control, Communication: A Historical Appraisal of Privacy in Knowledge Production”

We proudly announce that our special PRIVACY issue, “Creation, Control, Communication: A Historical Appraisal of Privacy in Knowledge Production” has been published. The issue is edited by PRIVACY researchers Natália…

Professor Helle Porsdam at 'Right to science roundtable' in Beirut, Lebanon

On 27 May, 2023, Professor Helle Porsdam participated in a roundtable discussion on 'The right to science' in Beirut, organized by UNESCO

Immigrants' access to healthcare in Denmark

Around one fifth of newly arrived immigrants in Denmark experience difficulties when trying to access healthcare in Denmark, in spite of the stated goal of the Danish Health Act to ensure ‘easy and equal access’ to…

Immersive app brings the hidden histories of Copenhagen to life

Hidden Copenhagen, the seventh app in the Hidden Cities collection, is developed as a collaboration between the University of Exeter’s Hidden Cities team and historians and archaeologists from the Centre for Privacy…

New Research Assistant at iCourts - Joseph Bernasol

1 June 2023 - July 2024

International Humanitarian Law and Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems

The accelerated pace of artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, coupled with increasingly practical military applications, makes it likely that AI will play a prominent role in future warfare. The time is ripe for…

New CMS Report: International Humanitarian Law and Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems

How have the political discourses about climate change influenced security policies? The new CMS report “Climatising Security Policy: A Panorama and Implications for Denmark” investigates the emerging international…

New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Karen Lønne Ring

1 - 30 June 2023

CEPRI contribution to important new Commentary on Business and Human Rights

CEPRI Associate Professor Dr Sorcha MacLeod, has contributed chapters together with co-author Dr Daria Davitti (Lund) to an exciting new Commentary on business and human rights.

Is it fair? Algorithms and asylum seekers

Europe is experimenting with the application of automated decision-making to manage asylum and migration processes.

Call for Abstracts - Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Climate, Energy and Sustainability: Arctic Special Edition

The Climate Arctic Governance research network (CArGo) is organizing a special edition of the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Climate, Energy and Sustainability with focus on the Arctic. The event will take place in a…

New visitor at CECS - Axel Johannes Jonsson

1 May - 1 June 2023

Launch of CirCus Webinar Series

The CirCus Webinar Series on the Legal Landscape of Circular Supply Chains launched on Friday 21 April 2023 with a webinar by Professor Rosalind Malcolm of the University of Surrey

Limitations of the circular economy concept in law

The Circular Supply Chains – identifying and allocating legal risks (CirCus) project, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, has had two recent publication successes

Danish Beneficial Ownership - May we have this last dance?

A very long journey will come to an end when the Danish Supreme Court rules in the final Beneficial Ownership cases – the 𝐍𝐓𝐂 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 (C-115/16 -N Luxembourg) and the 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐝𝐚/𝐍𝐲𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 (C-118/16 X Denmark A/S) by…