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“Sicherungsverwahrung” (preventive detention) in Germany under the scrutiny of the ECHR
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
The societal challenge how to deal with offenders deemed habitually dangerous, requires to balance needs for security of the general public with the human rights of the potential extreme dangerous offender. The prediction ...
Debt recovery methods of unsecured consumer credits in the European Union
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
In today's world, consumer lending occupies a special place in the financial services market. It provides a wide range of financial support to meet consumers' daily needs, including access to unsecured consumer credit. ...
Witness protection programs - an attempt to achieve a balance between eliminating threats to witnesses and their relatives and safeguarding the rights of the accused
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
In this study, the author examined the witness protection program in Latvia and other EU Member States, analyzing the legal provisions of the Republic of Latvia, national laws of the EU Member States, international legal ...
Effects on accounting legislation by an EU-wide implementation of the IFRS for SMEs – the case of Germany
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
Harmonisation of companies’ financial reporting obligations is essential to economic decision-making in an international business environment. The degree of harmonisation for small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) is still ...
Compliance mechanism under Aarhus Convention - effective legal instrument for enforcement of international environmental law
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation ...
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 ...
The scope of state’s responsibility to limit climate change
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
The work is structured in three main sections – first covers the theoretical grounds on defining what is climate change and all the main international agreements that regulates climate change and that many states have ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...