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Misunderstanding of Confucianism as an Obstacle to Copyright Enforcement in China
Copyright in international scope is deemed to be closely related to specific local culture. Echoed with this theory, many people also begin to analysis the current piracy problem in China...Read more
Xiaolu (Lulu) Choi
Assistant Corporate Counsel, Expeditors International of Washington, Inc., USA
Mobile Payments in the EU: Overview, Legal Framework and Infrastructure and Challenges
The mobile payment revolution has started in our society and is already changing our ordinary lives by merging one of the oldest economic tools –money— with one of the most...Read more
Sancho Guibert
Associate General Counsel, Citibank, Spain
Participation of Foreign Companies in Public Procurement Tenders in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Public procurement tenders represent for many companies an important source of business opportunities and their results represent significant portion on their revenues. Sectors like energy, healthcare, infrastructure construction are in...Read more
Richard Bacek
General Counsel of Siemens Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia, Siemens, s.r.o., Czech Republic
Career Transitions: From Law Firm to In-House and, Possibly, Back Again
Many law firm lawyers hope, at some point in their legal careers, to move in-house with a corporate law department. Often they seek to eliminate the pressure to develop business,...Read more
Valerie Fontaine
Partner, Seltzer Fontaine Beckwith, USA
Collaborative Privacy and Security Programs and the Symbiosis They Can Create
The value of business and human information has increased exponentially, and those who steal and defraud have become more creative and savvy. In our electronic world, machines conduct transactions without...Read more
Marilyn Hanzal
Associate General Counsel, The University of Chicago Medical Center, USA
The Role of Legal Regulation in Banking Supervision.
What system works best in a post financial crisis setting?
The issues of regulation of banking supervision are usually the same in many financial systems. In most cases we have similar authorities and matching regulations to ensure that financial institutions...Read more
Airborne Effrontery: Dealing with an unwanted drone over-flight under Australian law
This paper surveys the existing laws in Australia which impact on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (commonly called UAVs or ‘drones’). It considers the regulatory controls on the users...Read more
Peter Quinlivian
Senior Legal Counsel, Bae Systems Australia Defence Pty, Australia
A Case for Legal Due Diligence in Humanitarian Engagements
Many developing countries have “aspirational” laws, either carry-overs from years of European colonial rule or modeled after European laws (for example, British common law in Anglophone Africa). Rather than having...Read more
Jeffrey Erickson
Clinical Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
The new EFPIA Disclosure Code – Is the Need for Transparency Outweighing Data Privacy Compliance?
European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) adopted on 24 June 2013, the EFPIA Disclosure Code, that is a code of conduct which obliges its member companies, from 2016,...Read more
John Giannakakis
Regional Counsel Southern Europe , G4s Rms , Greece
Life as an In-House Counsel in the Construction Industry
I am an English Qualified Solicitor who is currently working as Senior In-House Counsel for Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd (“SECL”) based in Seoul, South Korea; SECL is one of the...Read more
Joanne Reed
Senior In-House Counsel, Samsung Engineering Co.,, Korea