The need for sustainable exit strategies in land-related projects
When land-related projects fail or stall, local communities are often left with little to rely on and risk being left worse off than before.…
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2017
The Importance of Political Quotas in Rural India
Quotas for disadvantaged groups, in politics and elsewhere, are implemented in more than 100 countries over the world. Because they are sometimes seen as violating important principles, or because they generate strong emotional reactions, they tend to attract controversy and generate debate.…
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The Right to Decide
Liberty and autonomy are cornerstones of modern society. They are also core to personhood and human flourishing. However, a large portion of the population is denied the right to make decisions on the basis of cognitive disability.…
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The emerging health-security nexus in the European Union
The emerging interaction between public health and security policies in the EU raises a number of important questions of effectiveness and legitimacy.…
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New edition of The Legal Texts launched at the WTO’s Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires
A new compendium has been published bringing together the WTO’s founding and new agreements, and its annexes, in a more comprehensive and manageable format.…
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New tools in the field of National Action Plans on business and human rights
Great news for officials, practitioners and academics in the field of human rights and business: A website mapping National Action Plans (NAPs) on business and human rights globally and an updated Toolkit providing step-by-step guidance on how to develop a NAP is now available.…
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UN Forum on Business and Human Rights – Final Thoughts
Freshfields’ coverage of the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights concludes with themes emerging from the third and final day of the conference, and overall reflections on the event as a whole.…
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UN Forum on Business and Human Rights – Day Two Recap
Freshfields’ coverage of the 2017 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights – offering global corporations, governments, NGOs, human rights activists and other stakeholders an annual platform to explore and discuss initiatives concerning the role of business with respect to human rights – continues with the following summary of notable perspectives provided by participants across the spectrum.…
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UN Forum on Business and Human Rights – Day One Recap
In late November, members of Freshfields’ Global Business and Human Rights team attended and presented at the sixth UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva.…
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Six secrets to success: Analysis of key success factors for remedy in the case of DRC workers vs. Heineken at the Dutch NCP
During a panel discussion at the 6th annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, in Geneva, Switzerland, representatives of OECD Watch, Heineken, the Dutch NCP, and victims from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) discussed the successful process towards remedy following business-related human rights abuses by Heineken.…
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Women’s Rights: Bridging The Gap in Malawi
Last week, I took part in the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights. I reflected on how far we have come in terms of the positive progress we are making, together with our partners on the Malawi Tea 2020 programme, where we are seeing a range of improvements to peoples’ lives in tea communities.…
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Build It and They Will Come: The Formative Stages of Human Rights Education in Business Schools
Companies are increasingly expected to engage on prominent public policy issues facing society. Such areas of public policy interfacing with business include migration and the global refugee crisis, LGBTI rights, freedom of expression and terrorism, climate change, white supremacy, and human rights in the global economy.…
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Grandparent Care: A Key Factor in Mothers’ Labour Force Participation in the UK
The contribution of unpaid work, often performed by women, is and has been largely unrecognised, a situation feminist scholars have long drawn to our attention.…
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Business and Human Rights: Prevailing Trends and Future Developments
This post originally featured in the Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer blog on the 22nd November 2017. Adoption of national legislation in France scrutinizing corporate efforts through mandated disclosure regimes and requiring companies to establish and implement vigilance plans constituted a watershed moment in business and human rights law.…
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The National Contact Point (NCP) System – Aligning NCP Processes with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
Under the theme of “Realizing Access to Effective Remedy” the 2017 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, will devote particular focus to the third pillar of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (“Guiding Principles” or “UNGPs”) – the need for access to effective remedy for those whose human rights are adversely affected by business activities.…
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The historical significance of the 1966 Coleman Report
This blog accompanies the Policy Forum on the 1966 Coleman Report published in History of Education Quarterly. For this History of Education Quarterly Policy Forum, we look at the historical significance of the 1966 Coleman Report from several different perspectives.…
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Access to Remedy and Corporate Human Rights Impacts
As explored within this blog series, access to remedy is a rapidly improving, though still fundamentally weak, area of business of human rights (BHR) regulation.…
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How Should English Domiciled Multinationals Manage their Human Rights Risk in Light of the Judgment in Lungowe v Vedanta?
This post originally featured on the Oxford University Law Faculty’s blog on the 25th October 2017. Conventionally, the doctrines of separate corporate personality and forum non conveniens insulated English domiciled parent companies from liability for the actions of their foreign subsidiaries. …
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Empowering Communities as a Strategy for Holding Corporates Accountable
This post was originally featured in Oxfam America. The Business and Human Rights Community have consistently focused on stronger regulations, norms and practice of the private sector in holding corporations accountable for human rights violations and achieving access to remedy for the victims.…
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Effective Remedy: The power and pitfalls of multi-stakeholder engagement
The Global Business Initiative on Human Rights and the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre Over the past few years, the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights and the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, with the support of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights (UNWG), have organised a series of panels at the UN Annual Forum (Forum) bringing together affected communities, civil society, business representatives and government officials to explore implementation of the UN Guiding Principles (UNGPs) on the ground.…
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Re-assessing John Dewey’s Democracy and Education
This blog accompanies the new thematic issue of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era reassessing John Dewey’s 1916 publication Democracy and Education.…
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Finding a way through the A2R maze: OHCHR’s Accountability and Remedy Project
The decision by the UN Working Group to focus on access to remedy at the 2017 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights is a timely and welcome one.…
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A practical step to remedying the cobalt child-labour problem
Access to remedy through judicial, administrative or legislative means is essential to righting wrongs. But to make these effective, the remedy landscape must recognise and squeeze out these wrongs.…
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Why the Business and Human Rights Community needs to engage with the SDGs
It has been more than two years since world leaders adopted the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).…
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International Investment Law and the UNGP
Several recent developments highlight the precarious relationship between international investment law (“IIL”), the law that protects foreign corporations (and other foreign investors) when they enter a new state, and international human rights law (“IHRL”), particularly the human rights of communities and individuals affected by foreign businesses.…
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Emerging into Focus: The Neglected Right and the Forgotten Pillar
Mental health considerations and remediation in cases of corporate-related human rights harm Reflecting on the theme of “Realizing Access to Remedy” at the upcoming UN Annual Forum, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights asserts that Pillar III of the UN Guiding Principles (UNGPs) is losing the epithet ‘forgotten pillar.’…
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The Sword’s Other Edge: Tradeoffs in the Pursuit of Military Effectiveness
The Sword’s Other Edge establishes various compromises that come about in the pursuit of military power. The idea that pursuing military power can boomerang recalls the Vietnam War, when the use of American firepower in the attempt to crush the Communist threat failed, and backfired.…
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Arbitration: a new forum for business and human rights disputes?
This post originally featured on the Thomas Reuters Arbitration Blog on the 16th October 2017. On 27-29 November 2017, the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights will convene in Geneva.…
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Obligations to respect and protect human rights are meaningless without access to remedy in states where the rule of law is weak: The example of Myanmar
The right to effective remedy – the ‘third pillar’ of the United Nations Guiding Principles on business and human rights (UNGPS) – is already a fundamental human right.…
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ASR Forum: Land Disputes and Displacement in Post-Conflict Africa. Questioning Boundaries and Belonging
Conflict-related displacement is increasingly central in shaping land claims, property relations, and modes of belonging in the African continent. In settings of forced mobility and resettlement, land property claims define the continued struggles over community membership and access to resources.…
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A Jedi Approach for Companies to Manage Grievances and Land-Related Risk
Doing business in the Global South can be a risky proposition. Unfortunately, no matter how much planning a company does in advance of launching an investment, unforeseen challenges such as competing land claims or other investment-related disputes or trends can occur, causing negative impact on the operation.…
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Access to Effective Remedy: Taking Human Rights and Rights Holders Seriously
Strengthening access to effective remedy for business-related human rights abuses is perhaps the most pressing challenge in the business and human rights (BHR) field.…
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Outcomes from OECD National Contact Point cases: More remedy than you may think!
The successful outcomes of the Heineken, Kinross and Statkraft cases have recently demonstrated that the National Contact Point system for the OECD Guidelines on Responsible Business Conduct can be effective for providing access to remedy in the business and human rights domain.…
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Do local grievance mechanisms work?
Operational level grievance mechanisms are part of the UN General Principles’ access to remedy pillar, yet their role has been called into question by some sectors of civil society.…
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Reclaiming the forgotten pillar, and the law as an agent of change
Pillar three of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) on access to remedy has increasingly been referred to as the “forgotten pillar”.…
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Doing more with less in health care: a multi-method study of decommissioning in the English NHS
Irrespective of moral and political arguments, current fiscal restraints in the English National Health Service (NHS) make decommissioning apparently unavoidable. Decommissioning – that is the removal, relocation or replacement of treatments and services – is being pursued by health care planners in response to the need to balance budgets, but has also been advocated by exponents of evidence based medicine on quality grounds (Hurley, 2014; Malhotra et al, 2015).…
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Brexit and Devolution
Since the Brexit referendum the UK government has been criticised for failing to recognise the positions and concerns of the devolved governments.…
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Access to Remedy and Corporate Human Rights Impacts
As explored within this blog series, access to remedy is a rapidly improving, though still fundamentally weak, area of business of human rights (BHR) regulation.…
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Cambridge Open – Celebrating International Open Access Week 2017
Cambridge University Press is proud to support International Open Access Week, running from 23rd to 29th October 2017. As a leading University Press we are actively engaged with Open Access, and our Open Access publishing platform, Cambridge Open, serves authors and the wider community by publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed OA content. Follow our Facebook and Twitter pages this week to read blog posts from our Open Access team, read our most-read Open Access articles, and learn more about Cambridge Open.
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Open Access at the Press – more Gold, more Green, more sharing.
The development of our Open Access programme, Cambridge Open, continues to be a major area of importance for the Press, both Green and Gold OA.
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Holocaust Scholarship and Politics in the Public Sphere: Reexamining the Causes, Consequences, and Controversy of the Historikerstreit and the Goldhagen Debate
Last year marked the anniversary of two of the most important scholarly debates about modern German history and the Holocaust: the so-called Historikerstreit (“historians’ quarrel”) that erupted thirty years ago in West Germany, as well as the lively debate sparked exactly a decade later by the publication in 1996 of Daniel J.…
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Global Animal Law – an introduction to the symposium
In this post, Anne Peters gives us an overview of the Symposium on Global Animal Law: Animals Matter in International Law and International Law Matters for Animals that is now published open access by AJIL Unbound.…
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How to be successful on the academic job market
Now that the new academic year has arrived, many Ph.D. students will be going on the job market for the first time.…
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It’s Time for Active Learning in All Sociology Classrooms…
If you teach in a sociology program, you have no doubt heard of teaching through active learning. Most college instructors now know that students learn more and perform better when actively engaged in (and out) of the classroom (Bajak 2014, Killian and Bastas 2015).…
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Typewriters, Slogans, and Sewing Machines—From SFO to Seoul and Back with the Journal of Asian Studies on My Mind
As Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies, as I prepare to go to the AAS Annual Conference (when our editorial board meets) or AAS-in-ASIA (where I hold “meet-the-editor” sessions), I spend some time thinking about the articles we have published recently and have in the pipeline.…
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Why US battery startups fail – and how to fix it
A new study published in MRS Energy & Sustainability investigates why so many of these American battery materials startups are failing under the current venture capital funding model.
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Warning: the cost of Brexit could seriously damage your health service
Leaving the EU would free up more money for the NHS, according to Leave campaigners. This pledge has been all but disowned – and in any case, writes Joan Costa Font, Brexit will impose further costs on an already cash-strapped service. …
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North Korean Resources at the Journal of East Asian Studies
With North Korea in the news, we would like to call attention to the range of research the Journal of East Asian Studies has published on the country.…
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Launching of the current issue (17, 2) and an Interview with Stephan Haggard, Editor-in-Chief of JEAS
Introduction to the current issue (17, 2) The current issue of the Journal of East Asian Studies (17, 2) brings together a number of pieces on China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, beginning with Qingjie Zeng’s discussion of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign.…
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How to Maximize the Impact of Your Research
What is the most effective way scholars can disseminate their research? Should they publish it in a book, a journal article, or a conference paper? …
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A New Team for the Journal of Experimental Political Science
I am delighted to announce a new editorial team for JEPS, which will hit the ground running after APSA. We will have seven associate editors and a senior associate editor.…
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Why your US credit card bills come from Sioux Falls; a brief history of US consumer finance
Sean Vanatta’s article Citibank, Credit Cards, and the Local Politics of National Consumer Finance, 1968–1991, published in Business History Review, is the winner of the 2016 Henrietta Larson Article Award.…
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Taking back control and handing it back to corporations: The UK’s Brexit
Below is a blog based on Kevin Farnsworth’s Journal of Social Policy article. A longer, fully-referenced version can be found at: http://www.corporate-welfare-watch.org.uk/…
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Counting the Cost of European Union Regulation, You Couldn’t Make It Up
The role of regulation in saving lives, enhancing public health and welfare, and protecting the environment rarely features in policy debates in the UK.…
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Brexit means higher immigration and more social spending
As many commentators have pointed out, the UK welfare state faces long-term structural problems in two main areas. Globalisation and technological changes demand that government directs attention to national competitiveness, and population ageing requires more spending on pensions, health and social care.…
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Brexit and Race Equality Policies
With Brexit negotiations underway, a key question is whether withdrawal from the EU will affect equality policies. The Fawcett Society has recently warned that Government ‘Great Repeal Bill’ will present ‘a real threat to our equality laws’ in so far as it risks ‘weakening of protections’.…
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Dealing with rejection: Advice from an editor
It happens to all academic researchers, all of the time. We have to deal with rejection – our papers get rejected for publication by journals.…
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Finding Feminisms – a special issue from CJPS / RCSP
In this post, the guest Editors of the latest 50th anniversary issue of the Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique, Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Fiona MacDonald, Tracey Raney, Cheryl N.…
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The 20th anniversary of the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to China
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the transition that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China has undergone since 1997 is the city’s relocation to the centre of Chinese politics.…
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Using third-party endorsements to build a brand’s reputation: The case of British chocolate
This blog post is based on the author’s paper Building Reputation through Third-Party Endorsement: Fair Trade in British Chocolate, published in Business History Review.…
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Why the UK Needs a Social Policy on Ageing
This article just published in JSP is a direct challenge to official and mainstream social policy orthodoxy on the issue of ageing which focuses on old age, not ageing, and assumes that later life is a natural period of decline. …
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The Treatment of Informal Care-Related Risks as Social Risks: An Analysis of the English Care Policy System
Caring can significantly affect the wellbeing and quality of life of informal carers and the people they support. It is essential, therefore, that care relationships are adequately supported.…
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Why are private actors able to co-govern prostitution policy and assisted dying in Germany?
Prostitution and assisted dying are highly contentious topics in German politics and many more countries around the world. Policy-makers commonly disagree on the “right way” of solving related policy problems.…
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Social Citizenship and Refugee Rights – Divergence between Westminster and Holyrood?
Introduction A longer articulation of Holyrood and Westminster’s views of social citizenship and refugee rights has been published in Mulvey’s latest article in the Journal of Social Policy.…
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Who wants to put pressure on the unemployed?
Welfare states support vulnerable citizens by means of different types of social policy. Examples include unemployment and pension benefits, and social assistance schemes.…
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The latest issue from Journal of Management and Organization
Management has always been an eclectic area to research and practice. It collects and draws together theories and practices from sociology through to anthropology and even engineering.…
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Constructed Female Bodies
Female sexual and sexualized bodies are constructed in multiple ways. One construction posits that females are autonomous and self-determining, and advocates for unimpeded choice regarding sexual expression, bodies, and reproduction.
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New Review Essay on The Cambridge History of Capitalism
This is the abstract for a new Review Essay published in Business History Review by Angus Burgin entitled ‘Larry Neal and Jeffrey G.…
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The Use of Economics in International Trade and Investment Disputes
We started to work on this book when the world still seemed to be okay for those looking at it through the lens of international economics or international economic law.…
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Q&A on the use of Google Consumer Surveys for social science research, with Lie Philip Santoso, Robert Stein, and Randy Stevenson
There’s a great deal of discussion these days about survey and polling methodology. A series of close and surprising elections, worldwide, have led many to wonder about the state of polling and survey methodology — Brexit, the Colombian peace referendum, and the 2016 U.S.…
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The Troika gave Ireland more autonomy over social security cuts than is commonly recognised
The so called ‘Troika’ of the European Commission, European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund was frequently criticised during the Eurozone crisis on the basis that it had imposed austerity on countries requiring a bailout.…
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The Great Academic Purge in Turkey
The Turkish government continues to rule by decree in the aftermath of the declaration of a state of emergency (Olağanüstü Hal) following the coup attempt on July 15, 2016.…
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National Poetry Month: What is Poetry?
This April, it’s National Poetry Month; the largest literary celebration in the world, marking poetry’s continuing important place in our lives.…
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A Chip of Controlling Free Expression: Why China Wants to “Trade” its Copyright Protection?
Last Friday, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) published its annual National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers.…
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Increasingly deep divisions in the world. What can be done?
We experience increasingly deep social and political divisions in the world, for example in the United States and the European Union, not to speak of war torn countries like Syria and Ukraine.
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If ‘small is beautiful’ in business… why does it have to be so hard to research?
The notion of ‘small is beautiful’ has been a catchcry since British economist; Ernst Schumacher first published his book with this title back in 1973.…
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All in it Together? The uncomfortable realities of food poverty and food aid in the UK
It is almost two months after Christmas and food banks are recovering from one of their most active periods of the year.…
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What’s the problem with Payday Lending?
What is payday lending? Payday loans have become synonymous with ‘irresponsible lending’ but the original aim of such lending was to help people borrow a small amount of money in advance of their pay-day.…
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Journal of the APA receives PROSE Award
The American Philosophical Association and Cambridge University Press are pleased to announce that the Journal of the American Philosophical Association has been selected as the winner of the 2017 PROSE Award for the Best New Journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences.…
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Behind the scenes: Updated commentary on the First Geneva Convention
Updating the commentaries on the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols is a task that resembles more a marathon than a sprint. This is hardly a surprise, as it is now more than 60 years since the first set of Pictet Commentaries appeared, giving practical guidance on how the conventions should be implemented.
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Privacy and Power in the Trump Era
For several years transatlantic relations have been dogged by very different perspectives on privacy and intelligence-gathering held by many on the opposite sides of the Atlantic.
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Does Society Want Policies That Benefit Future Generations?
Blog post by Hilary Graham and Piran White Rich societies like the UK are changing the planet for the worse. Human life is taking a heavy toll on the Earth, its climate and various ecosystems.…
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Populism in Europe – A Government & Opposition Collection
In this post, Government & Opposition co-Editor Erik Jones introduces a collection of free articles across the subject of Populism. The political landscape of Europe is changing rapidly and in ways that are hard to interpret.…
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The Troubled Families Programme: the ghost of policy past, present and future?
The Troubled Families Programme is once again back in the news. Launched in the aftermath of the 2011 riots, with the explicit aim of ‘turning around’ the 120,000 most ‘troubled families’ in England, it was one of the most high-profile social policies of the Coalition Government. …
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From Lynda Gratton to Simon Deakin: Thoughts on the future of self-employed work
Journal of Management & Organization (JMO) has always aimed to provide global perspective on management and organization of benefit to scholars, educators, students, practitioners, policy-makers and consultants.…
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