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The Evolution of Media Buying and Technology: A Contracting Dilemma
Advertisers were once able to target sixty percent of all U.S. households by running an advertisement (‘advert’) during the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. With the increase...Read more
Gayle Taylor
Manager, Senior Legal Counsel, Adobe Inc., USA
Enforcement of Contracts: The Key to Ease of Doing Business in India
A ranking received under the Ease of Doing Business Reports by the World Bank is not a mere publicity boost for countries but directly has an effect on the...Read more
Oswald Dsouza
Group Legal Head, L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering, India
Lipika Chimata
Legal Officer, L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering, India
Force Majeure and Pandemic
Since the COVID-19 broke out in December 2019 in central China, the lockdown of the entire country ensued and then the disease has grown exponentially around the world thereafter. Countries...Read more
Haitao Zhang
Director, Legal, Cnpc America, Canada
Limits of Liability Provisions for IT Service Contracts
Some of the most negotiated and critical provisions in information technology (“IT”) service contracts are those relating to the limits and exclusions of liability. As a partner in private practice...Read more
Clive Davies
Senior Counsel and Professional Development Manager Legal & Commercial, UK&I, Fujitsu Services Limited, UK
Smart Contracts – Self-Executing Contracts of the Future?
The first thing many people think of when they hear the term ‘smart contract’ is a contract that is somehow transposed into computer code and runs without any human intervention....Read more
Jelena Madir
General Counsel, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Switzerland
Bilateral Investment Treaties and Amendments to the Corresponding Private Investment Contracts are Long Overdue: They Fail to Cater for the Interests of Both Investors and Beneficiaries
Revised policies for drafting bi-lateral investment agreements and investment contracts as products of these agreements are long overdue. By the same token, a reflection on the attitudinal changes on the...Read more
Anna Lefcovitch
Solicitor, Arcadis, UK
Professor Charles Chatterjee
Senior Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute , UK
Covid-19 - A Contractual Nightmare
While COVID-19 (previously known as ‘2019 novel coronavirus’) has engulfed the entire world and authorities have been desperately implementing umpteen measures to contain the spread of this pandemic; from a...Read more
Arun Subash
Legal Counsel for Oil and Gas - E&P, Reliance Industries Limited, India
A Strategic View for the Applicability of the Duty of Care Doctrine in Consultancy Services Agreements
Consultancy services are becoming so relevant and necessary in all sectors that there is an urgent need to review the current models used to agree upon consultancy methods. After many...Read more
Fernanda de Cooker
Company Lawyer, MaxGrip B.V., Netherlands
Amazon v. Donald J. Trump: A Massive Defense Contract Award Tainted by the Appearance of Impropriety
An unconventional U.S. president personally attacking the CEO of Amazon, one of the country’s largest and most impactful companies, is salacious news. Important public policy considerations are implicated when those...Read more
Rodney Sweetland
Vice President and General Counsel, Camris International Inc., USA
Ten Things Civil Law-system Lawyers Should Know About Common Law Contracts (That They Didn’t Teach Me at Law School)
My most sincere apologies to those readers who are qualified in common law jurisdictions as this paper is mainly addressed to an audience of civil law-system lawyers who, as myself,...Read more
Sancho Guibert
Associate General Counsel, Citibank, Spain