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Ein horizontales Konzept der Öffentlichkeit – Facetten aus dem europäischen Urheberrecht (2018)
Journal Article
Jutte, B. (2018). Ein horizontales Konzept der Öffentlichkeit – Facetten aus dem europäischen Urheberrecht. UFITA, 82(2), 354-374

Das Konzept der Öffentlichkeit tritt im harmonisierten europäischen Urheberecht am prominentesten beim Recht der öffentlichen Wiedergabe auf. Jedoch nehmen auch andere Ausschließlichkeitsrechte und einige Schrankenbestimmungen Bezug auf einen Öffentl... Read More about Ein horizontales Konzept der Öffentlichkeit – Facetten aus dem europäischen Urheberrecht.

Overview: Human Rights (2018)
Book Chapter
Sargeant, C. (2018). Overview: Human Rights. In The UK Supreme Court Yearbook, Volume 6 - Legal Year 2014-2015Appellate Press

Advocate General suggests that Germany cannot rely on copyright to protect confidential information (2018)
Journal Article
Jütte, B. J. (2019). Advocate General suggests that Germany cannot rely on copyright to protect confidential information. Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 14(2), 83-85. https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpy171

Opinion of Advocate General Szpunar in Funke Medien NRW GmbH v Federal Republic of Germany, C-469/17, EU: C: 2018: 870, 25 October 2018 A Member State is not a beneficiary of fundamental rights protection and cannot invoke copyright to keep inform... Read More about Advocate General suggests that Germany cannot rely on copyright to protect confidential information.

Biopolitical Borders and the State of Exception in the European Migration 'Crisis' (2018)
Journal Article
Davitti, D. (2018). Biopolitical Borders and the State of Exception in the European Migration 'Crisis'. European Journal of International Law, 29(4), 1173-1196. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chy065

© 2018 The Author(s). This article examines the current European refugee 'crisis' by challenging, from a theoretical perspective, the way in which the European Union (EU) has used the increased number of deaths in the Mediterranean as an opportunity... Read More about Biopolitical Borders and the State of Exception in the European Migration 'Crisis'.

Fast-track fisticuffs? An ethnographic exploration of time and white-collar boxing (2018)
Journal Article
Wright, E. J. (2018). Fast-track fisticuffs? An ethnographic exploration of time and white-collar boxing. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 101269021881513. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690218815139

Whilst white-collar boxing at first appears to be named according to the social class of its practitioners, this paper will argue that this initial appearance is misleading. Based on the analysis of 32 interviews and six months of ethnographic data c... Read More about Fast-track fisticuffs? An ethnographic exploration of time and white-collar boxing.

Forensic Science Evidence and Expert Witness Testimony: Reliability through Reform? (2018)
Book
M. Stockdale, & P. Roberts (Eds.), (2018). Forensic Science Evidence and Expert Witness Testimony: Reliability through Reform?

Forensic science evidence plays a pivotal role in modern criminal proceedings. Yet such evidence poses intense practical and theoretical challenges. It can be unreliable or misleading and has been associated with miscarriages of justice. In this orig... Read More about Forensic Science Evidence and Expert Witness Testimony: Reliability through Reform?.

Children's economic and social rights (2018)
Book Chapter
Nolan, A. (2019). Children's economic and social rights. In U. Kilkelly, & T. Liefaard (Eds.), International Human Rights of Children (239-258). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4184-6_10

Recent years have seen a growing understanding of the relationship between poverty and human rights, an explosion in awareness of the status of children as right-holders, and increasing linkages being made between human rights and child poverty in th... Read More about Children's economic and social rights.

Autonomous and collective sanctions in the international legal order (2018)
Book Chapter
White, N. D. (2018). Autonomous and collective sanctions in the international legal order. In Italian yearbook of international law 27 (2017). Brill

The UK government is currently proposing the enactment of a “Sanctions Act” upon the UK’s withdrawal from the EU in 2019, embodying a right to impose “autonomous sanctions” against other states and non-state actors, on the basis that the UK will no l... Read More about Autonomous and collective sanctions in the international legal order.

Global non-profit chains and the challenges of development aid contracting (2018)
Journal Article
Burger, R., Owens, T., & Prakash, A. (2019). Global non-profit chains and the challenges of development aid contracting. Nonprofit Policy Forum, 9(4), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1515/npf-2018-0026

This paper employs Oliver Williamson’s transaction cost approach to assess contracting. We find that donor contracting with global non-profit chains is conducive to NPO opportunism due to the asset specificity of the contracts, infrequent contracting... Read More about Global non-profit chains and the challenges of development aid contracting.

The Rise of Private Military and Security Companies in European Union Migration Policies: Implications under the UNGPs (2018)
Journal Article
Davitti, D. (2019). The Rise of Private Military and Security Companies in European Union Migration Policies: Implications under the UNGPs. Business and Human Rights Journal, 4(1), 33-53. https://doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2018.21

This article examines the involvement of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) in both shaping and implementing the European Agenda on Migration (European Agenda), launched by the European Union in May 2015. The migration policies which hav... Read More about The Rise of Private Military and Security Companies in European Union Migration Policies: Implications under the UNGPs.

An inspection of rail franchise procurement: first-class regulation for privatised passenger rail? (2018)
Journal Article
Butler, L. (2018). An inspection of rail franchise procurement: first-class regulation for privatised passenger rail?. Public Procurement Law Review, 6, 251-278

Examines the operation of rail franchise procurement in the UK. Reviews key aspects of such franchising, its legal framework, whether the process is open to competitive tendering or direct awards, and the rules on publication of opportunities, consul... Read More about An inspection of rail franchise procurement: first-class regulation for privatised passenger rail?.

Development Aid Procurement & the UNGPs on Business & Human Rights: challenges and opportunities to move towards ‘the new frontier of Buying Justice’ (2018)
Book Chapter
LA CHIMIA, A. (2018). Development Aid Procurement & the UNGPs on Business & Human Rights: challenges and opportunities to move towards ‘the new frontier of Buying Justice’. In G. Quinot, & S. Williams-Elegbe (Eds.), Procurement Regulation for 21st century Africa (31-78). Cape Town: Juta Law

This chapter engages with the Procurement and Business and Human Rights debate focusing on one specific sector of procurement that has been, thus far, neglected by both human rights and procurement experts, namely development aid procurement, i.e. th... Read More about Development Aid Procurement & the UNGPs on Business & Human Rights: challenges and opportunities to move towards ‘the new frontier of Buying Justice’.

Art.21 Freedom of Expression and Opinion, and Access to Information (2018)
Book Chapter
Varney, E. (2018). Art.21 Freedom of Expression and Opinion, and Access to Information. In I. Bantekas, M. Ashley Stein, & D. Anastasiou (Eds.), The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Commentary, Ilias Bantekas, Michael Ashley Stein, and Dimitris Anastasiou (eds.). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198810667.003.0022

This chapter examines the effectiveness of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in promoting and protecting the equal right of persons with disabilities to freedom of expression and opinion and access to inf... Read More about Art.21 Freedom of Expression and Opinion, and Access to Information.

Art.49 Accessible Format (2018)
Book Chapter
Varney, E. (2018). Art.49 Accessible Format. In I. Bantekas, M. Ashley Stein, & D. Anastasiou (Eds.), The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Commentary. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198810667.003.0050

This chapter examines Article 49 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The importance of Article 49 CRPD is threefold. Firstly, it facilitates the dissemination of the CRPD by requiring that the Conventio... Read More about Art.49 Accessible Format.

Privatization and economic and social rights (2018)
Journal Article
Nolan, A. (2018). Privatization and economic and social rights. Human Rights Quarterly, 40(4), 815-858. https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2018.0047

Privatization is an ever more dominant model of economic and social rights (ESR) realization. Contracting out, public-private partnerships, and other approaches by which the private sector takes responsibility for, or supports the state in, deliverin... Read More about Privatization and economic and social rights.

Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Insolvency: A Modular Approach (2018)
Book
Mokal, R., Davis, R., Mazzoni, A., Mevorach, I., Romaine, B., Sarra, J., …Madaus, S. (2018). Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Insolvency: A Modular Approach. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press (OUP)

This volume examines the current resolution process for distressed micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), and proposes a different, more appropriate, ‘modular’ approach to the treatment of such entities when faced with insolvency proceedings.... Read More about Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Insolvency: A Modular Approach.