The Singapore Mediation Convention: a promising start, an uncertain future On 7 August, 46 countries signed the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation. These states have to ensure that international commercial settlement agreements are enforced. After a promising start, there are doubts as to its future implementation. Hassan Faraj Mehrabi and Hosna Sheikhattar • September 05, 2019
Do trade agreements work in an unpredictable world? Quite quickly national considerations are taking priority over collective agreements. Who would have thought the European Union would be challenged by Brexit? And who would have thought trade wars, such as the one between China and the US would re-emerge? Laura Lancée • August 30, 2019
How does cyber warfare fit in the framework of International Humanitarian Law? Gone are the days when the worst thing on the Internet to be afraid of was a pesky virus. The current highly sophisticated malware looks for software vulnerabilities which can result in fatal damage to the opponent’s entire computer network. Laura Krawczyk • August 09, 2019 • 2 comments
News from “cookie land” The use of web cookies has become increasingly diverse, enabling tracking beyond traditional cookie techniques. Social networks and website owners both get a piece of the pie, but how should legal responsibilities be split? Helena U. Vrabec • August 08, 2019 • 2 comments
‘The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started…’ 50 years after landing on the moon the media and scientists still dream about further exploring space. Yet the images of planet earth have shifted our focus: we return to where we started, with a renewed awareness of the place we have always lived in. Wim Bonis • August 07, 2019
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on state responsibility and climate change In November 2017, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued Advisory Opinion OC-23, which highlighted the relationship of interdependence and indivisibility that exists between human rights, the environment and sustainable development. Paola Tiffer • August 06, 2019
Policing prison In an attempt to reduce crime and disorder, prisons are being taken away from the Ministry of Justice. Could such a policy ever prove effective, and what does it mean for inmates, their rights and freedoms, and the criminal justice landscape as a whole? Christos Papachristopoulos • August 01, 2019
The Mediator in Insolvency Law: Exploring New Terrain On 11 September 2018, the Court of Appeal of 's-Hertogenbosch handed down a remarkable interlocutory judgment in a case involving the bankruptcy of a tiling company. Gert-Jan Boon, Maciek Bednarski, Carlotte Dessauvagie and Milan Pastoors • July 30, 2019
The new kid on the block: the HCCH Judgments Convention of 2 July 2019 The HCCH has adopted a new convention that offers a facilitated regime of global circulation of court decisions in civil and commercial matters aiming to foster international trade. Care is needed to coherently shape the treaty’s place in existing regimes. Ekaterina Pannebakker and Jeroen van der Weide • July 29, 2019
