JURIST
JANUARY 24, 2024
Human Rights Watch (HRW) raised concerns Tuesday about the draft Cybercrime Treaty of the United Nations over possible human rights violations. A UN Committee released the latest draft of the Treaty on September 1, 2023. The draft convention preamble acknowledges concerns about information technologies fostering criminal activities.
JURIST
AUGUST 17, 2023
The German cabinet approved a draft bill Wednesday named “Act on the Controlled Use of Cannabis and Amending Other Regulations” that would legalize the controlled use of recreational cannabis. The plan, first introduced in 2022, has two pillars.
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Conflict of Laws
MARCH 23, 2023
The Chinese lawmakers published the draft Foreign Relations Law and the draft Foreign States Immunities Law in December 2022. The English version of the two drafts published in this post is translated by Jingru Wang at the Wuhan Unviersity Institute of International Law.
JURIST
APRIL 8, 2024
US Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and US Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) announced on Sunday draft legislation to “establish a national data privacy and security standard.” Currently, there is no federal data privacy law protecting consumers or a law that outlines an enforcement mechanism for data breaches.
JURIST
MARCH 9, 2023
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T ü rk Wednesday criticised a British draft law that would require the deportation of anyone arriving in the UK by small boats. T ü rk said he was “deeply concerned” at the legislation and argued that it would violate international law.
Mondaq
SEPTEMBER 4, 2022
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology ("MeitY") released the draft National Data Governance Framework Policy (the "Policy") on 26th May 2022, inviting the public to provide feedback and comments on the same.
Conflict of Laws
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Gustavo Cerqueira and Hugues Fulchiron have recently edited a new volume (in French) on the appliation of foreign law in the draft code of French private international law (Le droit étranger dans le projet de code de droit international privé – Connaissance et applicationdroit).
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