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Scarcity + Cryptocurrencies: A Programmed Safeguard of Value
The EU has recently released a new regulation vis-à-vis crypto assets known as MiCa, (1) constituting the world’s most comprehensive legislation concerning that novel type of financial instruments. This legal framework is expected to foster and promote the crypto industry across the union, leading to a new boom of both the underlying blockchain technology and the prices of crypto assets such as Bitcoin. In this scenario, a question arises, what are the fundamentals of crypto assets’ value?
Remorse, Rehabilitation and Early Release in International Criminal Justice – an Unresolved Relationship
By Karla Marek April 1993. Ahmići, a village in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, is attacked by Bosnian Croat military forces. With the purpose of cleansing the village of its Muslim population, the village is destroyed, houses are burned and 116 Bosniaks are killed....
Happily (N)Ever After? Should Humans Be Allowed to Marry Robots?
By Faith Obafemi Although later debunked, one recent episode in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) was the viral artificial intelligence (AI) generated images of Elon Musk kissing a robot claimed to be his robot wife. That most netizens believed this fake news propelled by...
Forced labor in Thai fishing industry
By Aleksandra Dąbek On 14 September 2022 the EU published a proposal for a regulation on prohibiting products made with forced labor on the EU market. This once again provoked a recurring discussion about the extent of human rights violations in the form of modern...
The Kashmir Issue: An Analysis from an International Legal Perspective
By Asiya Shakeel Kashmir, nestled in the Himalayas, is not just a picturesque region; it's a global hotspot for conflict and diplomacy. The Kashmir issue is crucial and contemporary because it represents a long-standing territorial dispute between nuclear-armed India...
Tackling Illegal Content in our Digital Era: An exploration of the constitutionality of the NetzDG
By Charlotte Mautner When reflecting on the 2016 Munich shooting, the 2019 Halle synagogue attack and the murder of CDU politician Lübcke in 2019, one commonality becomes apparent; the perpetrators were right-wing extremists that had become radicalised with the help...
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