Rīgas Juridiskā augstskola / Riga Graduate School of Law: Recent submissions
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The Ottawa Treaty on the path to customary law status
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The main objective of this thesis is whether the Ottawa Treaty provisions have acquired the status of customary law and if not, whether it could over time. The thesis shows that while currently the Ottawa Treaty provisions ... -
Ambiguities surrounding the fifth anti-money laundering directive of the European Union in relation to trusts
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The main objective of this Thesis is to identify and analyze the ambiguities surrounding the 5AMLD in relation to trusts and similar legal arrangements, to assess whether the identified ambiguities weaken the ability to ... -
Legal aspects of storage limitation principle and third persons rights to information, interpretation by the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Human Rights Court in data protection cases
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The main purpose of this study is to clarify the scope of the data storage limitation principle in relation to data that may serve as evidence for third parties to defend their right in a fair trial in civil procedure. On ... -
Changing values: Bulgaria's pan-European integration
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The purpose of this document is to explore the scope of the ECtHR’s influence over Bulgaria and establish a tangible connection between the Court’s professed values on democracy, equality and individual rights and their ... -
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 ... -
Execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights finding a violation of Article 18 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (hereinafter ‘the Convention’) is a living instrument that gradually and consistently develops. Almost 70 years after the adoption of the ... -
The definition of cryptocurrency and mining for the purposes of tax regulation
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The work aims to determine the main problems and gaps in cryptocurrency and mining taxation with the aim of proposing an effective hypothetical model of tax regulation for the hypothetical country in which it is absent. ... -
The regulation of franchise agreements in the Baltic states
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The number of franchises sold by local Baltic companies is gradually increasing hence it is important to determine whether the existing legal environment satisfies the development of franchising in the Baltic states. The ... -
The limits of the GDPR’s subject access request and its impact on the security of the data subjects data
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The first part of the thesis describes the concepts and definitions of the EU data protection law and will provide a general opinion of the meaning of the SARs and the GDPR. The author tries to find out the main idea of ... -
Legal regulation of contractual relations during sea transportation of hydrocarbons
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)This paper focuses on the main legal issues, including the contractual aspect of transporting hydrocarbons as dangerous goods by sea. The growing cargo turnover from year to year, as well as the features and high risk of ... -
Smart contracts and legal issues arising from smart contracts
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)Ongoing technological innovations leaded to humanity to be in search of a new type of contract which can be created by Technology rather than classical methods. The idea behind of these researches was to get benefit from ... -
The internationally uniform courtroom application of Article 39 (1) CISG
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)This work briefly introduces the CISG as such, describing its history and goals, as well as the objectives, application and exceptions of Article 39 (1) of CISG in terms of the concept of “reasonable time” and how this ... -
Balancing the property right of forest owners and the right to healthy environment in Latvia
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)Strong and reliable right in property has not only been one of the cornerstones of a democratic capitalistic society, but also the provider of confidence for development in forest investment and sustainable management. ... -
Legal and ethical issues designing online courts
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The thesis explores and analyzes how can online courts be best designed to serve the needs of a modern society with different norms and requirements from our current ones and whether the current online courts performing a ... -
Blockchain technology implications on digital copyright and neighboring rights: possible ways of applications, advantages for rightsholders protection and enforcement challenges
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The thesis objective is to assess blockchain technology implications on rightsholders’ exclusive rights protection and enforcement in the digital environment. The Master thesis explores blockchain potential to limit existing ... -
Legitimate interests as basis for employee data processing based on Article 6, part (1) paragraph (f) under the General data protection regulation
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The thesis will analyze the cases of legitimate interests of employers and will illustrate the reasoning and legal basis for employees data processing based on Article 6, part (1) paragraph (f) under the GDPR in EU and ... -
The GAAR of the ATAD: implications on taxpayer rights and access to the fundamental freedoms associated with lack of legal certainty
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)This contribution is a body of doctrinal research, which endeavours to establish whether the GAAR can be effective in both discouraging illegitimate tax avoidance and upholding the rule of law sufficiently to not undermine ... -
Effect of new Aliens Act of Finland on the fair trial in asylum cases
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)This thesis describes various elements of the rights to fair trial, free access to the justice, fairness, public hearings, and trials by the independent tribunals. The purpose of this thesis is to examine new Aliens Act ... -
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 ... -
Critical analysis of existence of a Vicious Circle phenomenon within European private international law, with particular emphasis on the doctrine of Renvoi, and their effect on the principle of legal certainty
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)EU Member States have national legislation which provides rules to determinate the competent jurisdiction and applicable law according to its own private international law (PIL). As every State’s rules differ, PIL has ...