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Prevention of hate speech crimes: digital versus real-life environment
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2022)Extending the use of social media and other digital networks, as well as technology development and the impact of the pandemic have raised the problem of how to prevent hateful speech from occurring. Limitations on hate ... -
The principle of independence of judges as a norm of regional customary international law in Europe
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)In the face of repeated attacks on the independence of the judiciary and its members by several European governments in the last preceding years, the status of the observance to the principle of independence of judges in ... -
The principle of non-refoulement vs national security in the post 9/11 era
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2022)The terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, had largely raised the problem of terrorism in international society. Governments launched campaigns against terrorism, one of them being the War on Terror, which as a result, ... -
Principle of uniformity under the CISG: opportunities and threats
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2023)The present thesis examines the principle of uniformity under Art. 7(1) of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The problem of the present research is that while the CISG is a ... -
Private military and security companies: claiming state responsibility under Article 4
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)The aim of the thesis is to analyse the efficacy of Article 4 as revealed in the 2001 International Law Commission’s, Articles on the Responsibilities of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts and as applied in cases of ... -
The problem of statelessness in Cambodia
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)Statelessness has become an issue of concern to the international community since after the World War I. An estimated 15 million people are refused citizenship around the world. Statelessness occurs due to many reasons, ... -
Problems of user’s consent to the privacy policy
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The purpose of the thesis is to identify the problems of the acceptance of the privacy policies by users of the online services. The author proposes that there are two types of consent to the privacy policy which are given ... -
Profiling and algorithms used for automated decision-making: the Influence of GDPR
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)The current study, in the form of a systematic literature review, considers the specific implications of using algorithmic calculations to make assumptions based on patterns in big data and the related decision-making ... -
The proportionality of limitations of freedom of expression in the context of suppression of terrorism under the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the equilibrium between the suppression of incitement of terrorism and the rights of freedom of expression, established by the Council of Europe. Freedom of expression is an important ... -
The proposed Council Directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation: difficulties faced by sexual orientation
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The author examines legislation designed to counteract discrimination related to sexual orientation in this paper. The work is based on the analysis of two controversial trends in modern society: decriminalization of LGBT ... -
Protecting 3D service marks in the EU: the trademark registration dilemma
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The thesis aims to illuminate the ill-defined requirements and their theoretical applicability of registering a three-dimensional service mark consisting of a store layout in the wake of the Apple judgement in 2014, granting ... -
Protection of copyright in E-commerce within the European Union. Analysis of legal issues with respect to download of musical works
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2019)Stricter and better - defined protection mechanism for copyright issues as well as adaptation and harmonization of the national and community jurisdiction to the changes became a necessity because of proceeding rapid ... -
The protection of minority shareholders during delisting in Germany and in the U.K.
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The thesis seeks to compare the protection of minority shareholders during delisting in Germany and in the UK. Delisting refers to a publicly traded company leaving the stock market. In order to compare the protection ... -
Protection of State symbols in trademarks under Article 6ter of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2023)The thesis explores Article 6ter of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. It analyzes the requirements and limitations imposed on the registration of national symbols and their imitations as ... -
The protection of the Baltic Sea marine environment from land-based pollution in light of international and EU legal frameworks
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The following thesis focuses on the legal mechanisms and norm adopted within the EU and international legal frameworks in order to protect the Baltic Sea marine environment from land-based pollution. As the Baltic Sea is ... -
Protection of the right to equal recognition before the law of persons with limited capacity in the Republic of Latvia
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)By restricting the ability of a person to make choices, guardianship excludes the person from a number of personal, social, and community experiences and thus creates a form of arbitrary and unreasonable segregation. Having ... -
Protection of the right to freedom of assembly and association under ECHR: compliance difficulties in Azerbaijan
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)The protection of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association under the ECHR and compliance difficulties in Azerbaijan, regarding these rights are discussed in this master thesis. The protection of the right ... -
Public risk finance schemes in Latvia
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)This thesis analyses the development and results of public risk finance schemes in Latvia and tries to answer the thesis question – can the national institutional framework of public risk finance schemes could be considered ... -
Putin’s crime of aggression in Ukraine
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2022)This thesis is located within the framework of international criminal law through the analysis of the possibility of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, being convicted of the crime of aggression for ... -
Real estate crowdfunding: potential in Latvia
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2017)Currently the economic environment is changing rapidly. The millennium’s development phase was followed by global financial crisis, which has changed the rules of game for all financial players and made others’ think outside ...