international-law-and-human-rights

(Wired) – The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates. A local court in Germany has issued a ruling that … Read More

Four states file alongside FTC, claiming WPath made deceptive claims about gender-affirming care for minors The Federal Trade Commission and four states sued the World Professional Association for Transgender Health on Wednesday, in the latest push by Donald Trump’s administration and others to limit gender-affirming care for transgender minors. The suit alleges the group, known widely as WPath, …

Epstein associate’s lawyer rejected preferential treatment claims in January, saying ‘humane treatment isn’t special’ Staff from the House oversight and judiciary committees visited the Texas prison where Ghislaine Maxwell , the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein , is serving her sentence, according to Democratic lawmakers. In a statement , the Democratic representatives Robert Garcia and Jami…

Partner Jaysen Chung is quoted in Law360’s “Fed. Circ. Won't Trade Detailed Verdicts for Efficiency,” which reports on the Federal Circuit faulting U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap's use of jury verdict forms that collapse all infringement allegations down to checking simply "yes" or "no.” The post Jaysen Chung Quoted in Law360’s “Fed. Circ. Won’t Trade Detailed Verdicts for Efficiency” appear…

Multinationals should start preparing now ahead of the 2028 deadline as the European Union recalibrates the anti-corruption landscape, write partner Katharina Humphrey, associate Karla Böltz, and legal trainee Maximilian Schach in their in-depth article for Law360 on a new directive aimed at combating corruption. The post Gibson Dunn Lawyers Write About EU’s New Directive on Combating Corruption …

The Chula LLBel Program at the Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University, is inviting external applicants to enroll in the "AI and the Law" program, a course designed to broaden perspectives and deepen understanding of the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the legal world from multiple dimensions.

Ahead of an upcoming hearing on 19 June during which the Tunis appeals court will re-examine the conviction of Saadia Mosbah, a prominent Tunisian Black human rights defender, and five of her colleagues from the anti-racist organization Mnemty, based on unfounded financial criminal charges stemming from their human rights work, Amnesty International’s North Africa researcher Safia Rayan said: “Th…

Images show Israeli military using six companies’ bulldozers and excavators to demolish south Lebanon villages Human rights experts have alleged that six multinational construction equipment conglomerates may be aiding and abetting war crimes by supplying excavators and bulldozers to Israel, after photos and videos showed the Israeli military using their equipment to demolish villages in south Le…

Jimmy Chilimigras graduated high school at 12 and is now pursuing a master of laws degree – and he wants to find ‘an area to do some good’ A Mississippi teenager who in May became one of the youngest ever law school graduates says he wants to help reform US tax law as well as litigate against social media companies over claims that they design their products to be addictive – and therefore harmfu…

Wilber Urbina Garcia was at a routine ICE check-in when he was taken away. He and his family had applied for asylum after leaving Nicaragua in 2022.

The Civilian Oversight Commission filed a lawsuit seeking access to confidential files from the L.A. Sheriff's Department, including use-of-force reports for three incidents involving deputies.

People who go to prison keep one important right — to file a grievance over their treatment: from abuse to denied medical care. But in the vast majority of cases, those efforts go nowhere, according to an analysis of federal data by The Marshall Project and NPR.

Harsh Chauhan, LL.B., University of London ABSTRACT The introduction of the Deal Value Threshold (DVT) under the Competition (Amendment) Act, 2023 and the CCI (Combinations) Regulations, 2024 marks a paradigm shift in India’s merger control regime. Designed primarily to address “killer acquisitions” in digital and technology markets, the DVT requires notification of transactions exceeding INR 2,0…

Harshitha. R & Dr. Jyotirmoy Banerjee ABSTRACT The increasing integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and algorithmic decision-making systems into India’s healthcare sector has significantly transformed diagnostic accuracy, treatment planning, disease prediction, patient monitoring, and healthcare administration. The launch of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) in 2021 accelerated…

Sesha Dhriti Badiga, Woxsen University ABSTRACT Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Eastern Book Company & Ors. v. D.B. Modak & Anr. (2008) marked a fundamental change in Indian copyright laws, moving away from the classical “sweat of the brow” doctrine towards a slightly higher threshold for originality that takes into account the skill, judgment, and a very small amount of creativity inv…

Srishti Pandey, B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), National Law University, Jodhpur Vedika Diwan, B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), National Law University, Jodhpur ABSTRACT The proliferation of state fragmentation, through secession, dissolution and separation, has generated a persistently unresolved question in public international law. What happens to bilateral investment treaties [“BITs”] when the state that concluded th…

Hemanya Pratap Singh & Tathagat Singh, LL.B. (Hons.), Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat ABSTRACT The Principal Purpose Test, incorporated in India’s Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements by virtue of the Multilateral Instrument (‘MLI’) since October 2019, has spawned a doctrinal development that legal literature is yet to acknowledge: far from a simple restructuring of India’s treaty anti-avoi…

Dr. V. Rekha, Assistant Professor of Law, Chennai Dr. Ambedkar Govt. Law College, Pudupakkam G. Ponmani, Assistant Professor of Law, Saraswathy Law College, Tamil Nadu ABSTRACT The rental housing sector plays a crucial role in addressing the increasing demand for urban housing in India. Rapid urbanisation, migration, and changing socio-economic conditions have highlighted the need for an effectiv…

John J Numpeli, Sree Narayana Law College, Poothotta, Affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam. ABSTRACT This article explores the role of law as a vital mechanism for "social engineering" in the ongoing transformation of women’s social and economic status. By tracing the historical trajectory of women’s rights from the intellectual equality of the early Vedic period to the significant d…

Aashish Barman, Jindal Global Law School, O.P Jindal University. ABSTRACT ESOPs have thus been described as “one of the strongest means to realign employee-shareholder interests to produce further innovation and startup- ism”. The paper critically compares the diverse regulatory approaches to ESOP structures in the two growing financial centres, India and Singapore, with regard to the contours wi…