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The algorithmic capacity of contemporary artificial intelligence revives the socialist calculation controversy that Mises and Hayek were long thought to have closed. If algorithms can synthesize the dispersed information that Hayek identified as the irreducible obstacle to central economic planning, has the Hayekian argument been technically fals...

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This paper critically evaluates whether Article 82 of the GDPR provides an effective system for financial compensation to individuals who have suffered harm from breaches of their personal data. The research uses current CJEU case-law to demonstrate that, although liability provisions on the amount of compensation are being established, allowing ...

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Products liability cases constitute a new frontier for punitive damages to be awarded where a defendant’s recklessness has caused widespread harm in society. The recognition of punitive damages for reckless conduct in products cases signals a significant move away from the retributive punishment roots of punitive damages awards. The proliferation...

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The chapter – appearing in the Fifth Edition of Paul Torreman’s standard work on Intellectual Property Law and Human Rights – focuses on the subject of establishing conformity between copyright and access to learning materials under the right to education. It first looks at the provisions of international copyright law designed to facilit...

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Contractual sustainability meets the requirement to be a general principle of law and, in particular, of transnational commercial law, as it protects an urgent and basic shared ethical value and expresses the duties that we all owe to present and future generations. Contractual sustainability refers to achieving or promoting sustainable developme...