By casting teachers as informants, British counter-extremism policy is promoting violence
Dec 20, 2017 17:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The Muslim children in my classroom withdrew from political debate when the Prevent counter-terrorism strategy cast me as an informant. Prevent infers a duty on all teachers and doctors in England, Scotland and Wales to...
How the law itself can be a corrupting, criminal force – and what can be done about it
Dec 20, 2017 17:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
There are two sorts of corruptions one when the people do not observe the laws; the other when they are corrupted by the laws: an incurable evil, because it is in the very remedy itself. With these words more than...
U.S. Attorneys General To Sue FCC Over Net Neutrality Vote
Dec 15, 2017 07:49 am UTC| Technology Law
It didnt take long after the Federal Communications Commission to cast its vote to repeal Net Neutrality for the lawsuits to come flying in. Attorneys General of New York Eric Schneiderman and of Washington Bob Ferguson...
DNA has gone digital – what could possibly go wrong?
Dec 08, 2017 02:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Health Law Technology
Biology is becoming increasingly digitized. Researchers like us use computers to analyze DNA, operate lab equipment and store genetic information. But new capabilities also mean new risks and biologists remain largely...
EconoTimes and TokenPost to host Global Cryptocurrencies Legal Conference in Korea on December 15
Dec 01, 2017 08:08 am UTC| Digital Currency Law
EconoTimes, publisher of TokenPost, is going to host a conference to analyse the existing regulatory framework on cryptocurrencies in different countries on December 15, 2017 in Seoul. The conference, with the theme...
Politics won out over international law in recent UN elections
Nov 22, 2017 05:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law
For the first time in the courts history, the UK will not have a judge sitting at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Christopher Greenwood, who was seeking a second nine-year term, pulled out of the race on November...
Companies need confidentiality clauses – but not to muzzle sexual abuse victims
Nov 22, 2017 02:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Harassment and abuse accusations against Harvey Weinstein and other prominent men, like Bill OReilly, have revealed a trail of settlement agreements in their wake, many of which contained language that prevented victims...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight