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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…

Dan Bodansky

Daniel M. Bodansky is a preeminent authority on global climate change whose teaching and research focus on international environmental law and public international law.

Margherita Paola Poto

Margherita Paola Poto is a Research Professor at the Faculty of Law, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway and has taught Administrative Law for more than 20 years at the University of Turin, Italy.

Dr. Eun Hye Kim awarded Proxime Accessit in the 2022 ELFA Award

Dr. Eun Hye Kim was awarded Proxime Accessit in the ELFA Award 2022 for her thesis entitled “The Advocate General as an Actor of Change – or Consolidation – in EU Competition Law.”

New legal package on crypto assets could set the democratization of crypto at risk

New podcast with Associate Professor, Dr. Alexandra Andhov .

Can workers enforce corporate reports in tort actions?

An empirical study of compliance with the UK Modern Slavery Act in the shipping industry

New visitor at iCourts - Marthe Engedahl

1 May - 16 July 2023

What does “integration” mean?

Integration is one of the major challenges posed to the European Union by the immigration of third-country nationals. However, the concept of integration is still lacking a proper legal definition.

CEPRI/CirCus is hiring!

Two post-doc positions are now available in CEPRI on the CirCus project.

David Sausdal Publishes Monograph on Globalized Local Policing

CGC researcher, David Sausdal, publishes monograph on the effects of globalization upon local policing.

We are hiring!

Two post-doc positions are now available in CEPRI on the CirCus project.

Jens Schovsbo co-edited the book ‘Improving Intellectual Property: A Global Project

Professor Jens Schovsbo has co-edited the book ‘Improving Intellectual Property: A Global Project‘. The book has just been published with Edward Elgar and it is a Festschrift for Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss.

New visitor at iCourts - Katarzyna Krzyżanowska

17 April - 31 May 2023

Using topic modelling to explore case summaries

In this blog post, I use a Hierarchical Stochastic Block Model to explore latent topics in summaries of cases that have been before the Refugee Appeals Board in 2018-2020.

New visitor at CeBIL - Barbora Havlíková

1 February - 30 June 2023

New Publication on the Circular Economy and the Law

Publication on the Circular Economy and the Law

New Publication on the Circular Economy and the Law

Publication on the Circular Economy and the Law

Andrew Keane Woods joins CIIR as Fulbright guest researcher

Andrew Keane Woods joins CIIR as a guest researcher. He is the Milton O. Riepe Professor of Law at the University of Arizona, where he also co-directs the TechLaw program. He is visiting as a Fulbright Scholar, on a…

CeBIL Visitor Jorge L Contreras talks at CIPA Podcast

In his book The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA (Hachette/Algonquin, 2021), CeBIL visitor Professor Jorge Contreras brings this important and unique case to life. Through…