Companies should take charge of the potential toxins in common products
May 31, 2017 07:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Every year thousands of new contaminants enter the market in common consumer products and are washed down our drains without treatment. They end up in the water we drink, the fish we eat, and other marine life. These...
Why Italian courts are struggling to protect people's freedom in public spaces
May 24, 2017 15:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Public spaces are by definition open to everyone, regardless of age, gender and social status. But in Italy, national security measures are placing ever-tighter restrictions on what people can and cant do in public. All of...
How Big Tobacco is losing the fight to stop plain packaging of cigarettes
May 22, 2017 12:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
You may already have seen the tobacco packs currently sold in the UK: a dark, murky green colour with large graphic health-warning images and scary messages aimed at informing current and potential smokers about the...
Legal Landmines Preventing Global Adoption Of Blockchain
May 22, 2017 08:44 am UTC| Technology Law
While Blockchain is getting widespread interest and use in various industries now, there are quite a few legal hurdles that are preventing global acceptance of the revolutionary concept. A lot of this has to do with the...
Shinzo Abe pushes ahead on Constitutional reform amid heated debate within Japan
May 21, 2017 13:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
On May 1, the largest vessel in the Japanese Maritime Self Defence fleet, the vast helicopter carrier Izumo sailed out of Yokosuka. Its mission was to escort the US naval contingent that was deployed off the Korean...
FCC Just Voted To Kill Net Neutrality, Americans Have Until Aug. 16 To Fight For Free Internet
May 19, 2017 07:06 am UTC| Technology Law
Net Neutrality has been a hot button issue since 2014 and on Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal the regulations implemented in 2015. For those who might have given up hope, the fight isnt over...
Why banning laptops from airplane cabins doesn't make sense
May 17, 2017 02:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Recent reports suggest that terrorists can now create bombs so thin that they cannot be detected by the current X-ray screening that our carry-on bags undergo. In an effort to protect against such threats, the U.S is...
The Alberta government is interfering in public sector bargaining on an unprecedented scale
Putin’s Russia: first arrests under new anti-LGBT laws mark new era of repression
Canada needs a national strategy for homeless refugee claimants