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INTRODUCTION
Many British Commonwealth countries have legislative provisions that address unjustified threats of intellectual property infringement. Such provisions reflect obligations under international law. The origin of these unjustified threats provisions, though, can be traced earlier to s 32 of the United Kingdom’s (UK) Patents, Designs, and Trade ...

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Machine learning (ML) systems, increasingly deployed in high-stakes decision-making, inherently produce uncertain outputs that can lead to unlawful discrimination. This article provides the first legal analysis of how predictive uncertainty in ML systems interacts with UK anti-discrimination law under the Equality Act 2010. Employing a decision-t...

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Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) has been lauded as one of the latest global trends in smart ‘ways to pay’, riding on the wave of digital disruption that has gained traction internationally. At the same time, concerns have been raised over harm to vulnerable consumers becoming mired in unanticipated debt. This article facilitates a deeper understanding o...

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This chapter argues that European trademark law increasingly operates as a system of expression regulation and should therefore be reconstructed in light of Article 10 ECHR. Trademark law no longer merely protects consumers against deception: through anti-dilution protection, expansive infringement standards, and morality-based registration rules...

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This article examines how international arbitration is adapting to an era of persistent global disruption marked by geopolitical upheaval, armed conflict, climate-related disasters, supply chain fragility, pandemics, and rapid technological change. It argues that while these overlapping ‘polycrises’ strain traditional doctrines such as force maje...