The European Central Bank (ECB) has recently launched the Call for Papers for the ECB Legal Research Programme (LRP) scholarship 2024, which can be found on the ECB website via this link. The LRP is an interesting opportunity for researchers as it fosters analysis of areas of law relevant to the ECB’s statutory tasks and ..read more

Article 47 of the EU Charter and Effective Judicial Protection, Volume 2 The National Courts’ Perspectives Edited by Matteo Bonelli, Mariolina Eliantonio and Giulia Gentile This ambitious, innovative project examines the principle of effective judicial protection in EU law over two volumes. In the second volume an expert team explores how the national courts have ..read more

Not What The Bus Promised Health Governance after Brexit Tamara K Hervey, Ivanka Antova, Mark L Flear and Matthew Wood This book explains the impacts of Brexit on the NHS. From staffing to biomedical research, the UK’s post-Brexit agreements have serious implications for health law. Drawing conversations and interviews with over 40 health policy stakeholders ..read more

Data Protection and Digital Sovereignty Post-Brexit Edited by Edoardo Celeste, Róisín Á Costello, Edina Harbinja and Napoleon Xanthoulis This book examines the evolution of UK data protection law post-Brexit and its implications from a digital sovereignty perspective. It analyses the latest legal and policy developments in this context, focusing on data protection but also exploring ..read more

The Changing European Union: A Critical View on the Role of Law and the Courts Edited by Tamara Ćapeta, Iris Goldner Lang and Tamara Perišin This collection explores how the EU judicial wing is responding to new challenges currently being faced by the block. It looks at globally shared problems such as unequal societies, the ..read more

The INSOL Europe Academic Forum (IEAF) is inviting submissions for its 18th annual conference, taking place from 5-6 October 2022 in Dubrovnik (Croatia). Expressions of interest are invited for the delivery of research papers within the overall theme of the academic conference: “Insolvency Law in Times of Crisis” The conference is intended to focus on ..read more

*Daria Onitiu The EU Commission’s proposal for the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence (the ‘AI Act’) will bring significant changes to standard-setting for high-risk systems, including medical AI. The proposal’s risk-based approach intends to balance the socio-economic benefits of medical AI and the need for harmonised standards for safety-critical applications in healthcare. From medical diagnostic systems ..read more

*Mili Gupta Introduction  The European Court of Justice [ECJ] concluded in its long-awaited decision in Case V.M.A. Vs Stolichna Obshtina, Rayon ‘Pancharevo’ [the “VMA” case] that EU Member States must acknowledge, for the purpose of EU free movement law, family bonds developed in another EU Member State between a child and their same-sex parents. The ..read more

Praneet Pandey & Kalhan Safaya* In March of 2021, the International Trademark Association (herein referred to as INTA) brought certain ‘amicus briefs’ before the Grand Board of Appeals (GBoA) of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) apropos of the three parallel appeals put forth by The Estate of The Late Sonia Brownell Orwell. These ..read more

*AVV. ANDREA PULIGHEDDU 1.Introduction In his most renowned novel Neuromancer, the writer William F. Gibson has introduced the key concept of cyber space. The main character, Henry Dorsett Case, is a low-level hustler that aims to reconnect himself to the Matrix, a virtual reality computing platform sited, precisely in cyberspace. Moving from this fictionalized idea ..read more