European participation in controversial aspects of the ‘war on terror’ has transformed the question of the extraterritorial scope of the European Convention on Human Rights from abstract doctrine into a question with singularly pressing political and legal ramifications.doctrine into a question with singularly pressing political and legal ramifications. Yet the European Court of Human Rights ha...

This article revisits the case of The State of Israel v Adolph Eichmann and calls for renewed attention to the analysis of universal jurisdiction in this early example of it. Precisely because the Israeli court’s notion of universal jurisdiction is foreign to contemporary readers, it provides fresh guidance on a doctrine that has recently gained enormous importance in global politics. The Eichm...

Jurisdiction has traditionally been considered in international law as purely a question of the rights and powers of states. Conceived in this way, the rules on jurisdiction serve the important function of delimiting (while accepting some overlap of) state regulatory authority – the question of when a person or event may be subject to national regulation – a function which is shared with the co...

Imagine a state proclaiming that it will claim jurisdiction l over, and apply its laws to, any website that can be accessed from a computer located in its taritory. The response would per/taps be outrage from some. Others would point to the ineffective nature of such a rule, and yet others would perhaps view the model as infeasible. Indeed, when the Advoeate-General's office of Minnesota in the...

There is a considerable literature on the relationship between sprawl and accidents. However, these studies do not account for the spatially correlated effects of sprawl on accidents. In our analysis of 122 jurisdictions in Southeast Michigan, we use a Bayesian spatial autoregressive model to estimate how injuries and fatalities in one jurisdiction are associated with sprawl in that jurisdictio...

The relationship between parties in corporate world is essential order to addressing business disagreements. Where it focusing on the language of contract per se. Despite various dispute solutions and legal provisions corporate, company shareholder rights, all concern are still facing some challenges. Mediation method one alternative resolutions for those who seeks justice without undergo court...

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 426 I. THE INTERNET AND NAVAJO CULTURAL ADAPTABILITY ... 428 II. ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES: UNDERSTANDING FEDERAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION LAW IN THE NAVAJO CONTEXT .......... 433 A. The Communications Act of 1934 .......................................... 434 B. The 1996 Act an...

The usage of open source software has several advantages, but also some disadvantages. There is for example the “AS IS” disclaimer in the GPL that says, that the developer and the distributor is not liable for any damage, that might be caused by the software. This disclaimer is not valid in Germany, even if the software is completely free. The German jurisdiction sees free software in most case...