Rīgas Juridiskā augstskola / Riga Graduate School of Law: Recent submissions
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The obligation of companies to implement technical and organisational measures to ensure the safety of processing of personal data under Article 32 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)The ensuring of the safety of processing activities is a key requirement that companies are obligated to perform in order to comply with the so-called “security principle” of the General Data Protection Regulation. The ... -
Passenger cars carbone dioxide emission legislative regulation and tax application in the European Union.
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)Global warming has become in the past few years one of the main concerns for the countries, which has led to the goal to reduce targets of emissions on the national, supranational, and international levels. The transportation ... -
A legal and economic analysis of the concept of anticipatory breach under the CISG
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)Contractual remedies are traditionally available after the breach of a contract, but can a party suspecting non-performance prior to the date of performance entitled to seek for remedies? The United Nations Convention on ... -
Comparative analysis of the national law of Latvia and Germany in regard to AML/CTF: a threat of reputational risks as a driver of strengthening of control over the financial sector
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)The thesis aims to analyse the nature of differences between the national law of Latvia and Germany in regard to anti-money laundering with respect to the financial sector, as well as the correlation between current national ... -
Merger control procedure: comparative analysis of the role of court and agencies in the EU and US
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)This study considers merger control procedure both the procedure itself, reviewing the steps of the procedure, as also analyses the role of procedure’ bodies which are the main actors and which conduct the investigation ... -
The definition of ‘terrorism’ under international law in relation to armed conflicts involving non-state actors
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)The growing influence of violent non-state groups within the international realm for some time already has presented challenges for scholars, lawyers, and politicians. One of the most prominent technical challenges has ... -
Freedom of expression and the times of emergency: analysis of Article 15 of the European Convention on Human Rights and derogations made by Turkey and Hungary during COVID-19 pandemic
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)COVID-19 pandemic is regarded not to be solely a health crisis, but also human rights crisis. The pandemic limited freedom of movement, freedom of expression, right to education, food security, and other rights. The thesis ... -
Analysis of the implementation of mediation as an alternative dispute resolution method in the Latvian legal system
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)Optimisation of dispute resolution within European Union Member States is an ongoing trend in order to facilitate access to justice for individuals. In Latvia, the integration of the Mediation Law was a step towards further ... -
Concurrent claims under Brussels Ibis Regulation
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)This paper is aimed at researching issues associated with how the Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments ... -
Development of Regulation (EU) 2020/1503, its effect on the multi-business model crowdfunding service providers and new niches of business
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)Crowdfunding as part of modern day’s finance and category of fintech has developed rapidly in the last decade leaving regulation behind. Problems arising from insufficient regulatory framework and fragmented national ... -
Human rights violations in 2020 Belarus protests and potential remedies in international human rights organisations
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)This paper will look at human rights abuses before and after the presidential elections in Belarus in August 2020, where Alexander Lukashenko sought his 6th term in office. Moreover, it will be researched how these violations ... -
Force majeure in international sales law a threat to the principle of pacta sunt servanda?
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)The thesis discusses the problem of weakly drafted contracts that results in international disputes, consequently, parties try to invoke force majuere as a defense concerning Article 79 (1) of the CISG. In the thesis, it ... -
Turkey’s violations of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights in closed institutions
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)Turkey has always been condemned by the international community for its anti-democratic ways of handling detained persons in their closed institutions that causes severe human rights violations as detained persons are ... -
Comparative analysis of the application of anti-money laundering obligations to neobanks in Lithuania and Latvia
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)Money laundering is a criminal offense that has its roots in the distant past, however with the development of the technological age, new technological and financial solutions are emerging, for instance - neobanks. As a ... -
The United States legitimization and justification of the Iraq invasion in 2003 under international law
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)Prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq by United States and its partners, Iraq failed to fully comply with some of the obligations posed by the UN Security Council resolutions 1441 and 687. Under the Bush administration, it ... -
Corruption and methods of combating it: legal, sociological and economic aspects
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)The world currently consists of creating financial flows that are regulated by law to reduce financial irregularities that mostly occur due to corruption. Thus, corruption in the modern world is one of the most acute ... -
Legal and political challenges of European Union’s cyber-diplomacy in the age of surveillance capitalism
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)Bachelor thesis will focus on one of the initiatives, which has been developed in order to address the challenges, which are posed by the technological and digital advancements – cyber diplomacy. Furthermore, in order to ... -
Political assassination in international and domestic law: the use of poisonous weapons
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)The notion of political assassination, as well as of the use of poisonous weapons, is not a new phenomenon. This practice was always known to the world of intelligence, as well as states often decided to resort to ... -
Abuse of dominant position in the form of unfair excessive pricing
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)With the occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been many indicators among European Union Member States that undertakings are charging excessive prices. Therefore, one might wonder whether undertakings have the ... -
Violation of Article 2. and Article 9. of European Convention of Human Rights by Russian Federation in the occupied territory of Crimea
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)Thesis analyses Article 2 and Article 9 ECHR concerning violations in the annexed territory of Crimea. Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its military presence in the Eastern Ukraine region is still topical issue in the ...