Financial services need to wake up to fact that treating customers well is good business
Nov 19, 2019 03:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Economy
South Africas regulatory regime for the financial services sector is going through major changes. The question is whether companies can adapt to a principles-based approach. Or will they default back to rules-based...
Indonesia's first scientific data bank is a step toward strengthening 'open data' practices
Nov 11, 2019 09:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Law
A large number of researchers among Indonesias scientific community have been known to perform unethical data tampering. Many manipulate statistical data to gain a reputation as a researcher who publishes the most under...
Homicide is declining around the world – but why?
Nov 05, 2019 02:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Americans are currently living in one of the lowest crime periods ever and so are many people in the rest of the world. Following decades of increasing crime during the 1960s, 70s and 80s, U.S. homicide rates declined...
How Creative Commons works, and why it enables access to knowledge
Oct 31, 2019 06:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Law
A big barrier to lifelong learning can be the cost of resources. There are worldwide initiatives to change this, though, and its helpful to know how to use these resources legally. One such arrangement is Creative...
Could Congress reverse Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria?
Oct 31, 2019 06:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The political and humanitarian outcry condemning President Donald Trumps decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria came soon after he made the announcement. Trumps actions paved the way for Turkish troops to attack...
The impeachment resolution: Politics, the Constitution and everything in between
Oct 31, 2019 06:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
For something with such important consequences, the Constitution is surprisingly vague when it comes to impeachment. Most of the language in the Constitution lays out what happens once Congress decides to impeach. But...
A written constitution for the UK would not have resolved recent Brexit arguments – here's why
Oct 26, 2019 08:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Recent accusations that the government has been sidestepping parliamentary scrutiny have led to renewed calls for the UK to have a written consolidated constitution. It is said the UK has an unwritten constitution,...
‘We have thousands of Modis’: the secret behind the BJP’s enduring success in India