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Ecocide: making the destruction of the environment an international crime
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2022)
In light of the ever-growing threat of climate change and increasing harm done to the environment by humans, an independent expert panel established by the Stop Ecocide Foundation concluded its groundbreaking drafting work ...
Modification of maritime boundaries as a result of sea level rise
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2022)
Rising sea levels due to climate change lead to the modification of maritime state boundaries. According to the law of the seas, baselines from which maritime zones are measured are ambulatory and shift landward due to ...
Compatibility of Latvian non-conviction-based confiscation with Convention on Human Rights
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2022)
Traditional “repressive” criminal law is no longer sufficient to deal with the new threats posed by the global risk and information society. New forms of combatting international organised crime, drug trafficking and other ...
Data protection in an employment context – monitoring employees working from home through monitoring software under the General Data Protection Regulation
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2022)
The thesis addresses practical and legal issues related to the monitoring of employees working from home through monitoring software against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic and the overall trend towards flexible ...
Accountability for crimes committed by autonomous weapon systems under international criminal law
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2022)
With conventional weapons a human is responsible for the target selection and the pulling of the trigger. In contrast to this, AWS themselves are responsible for these tasks. The contemporary framework of International Law ...
The European Union in Colombia: protecting social leaders to protect Colombia’s peace
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2021)
For the last three decades the EU’s external dimension has undergone a significant transformation, resulting in the EU becoming today a relevant international peace actor. The EU currently backs the colombian Peace Agreement ...
European Union Central Securities Depositories Regulation Settlement Discipline Regime impact on buy-side bond market participants
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2022)
The Covid-19 pandemic gave rise to unprecedented challenges for the European economy. It highlighted the need for a more flexible, efficient, and reliable financial system that could effectively alleviate the immense ...
Explicit consent In the context of personal data processing conditions compared to Turkish law and European law
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2022)
Technology, which has developed rapidly in the last century and continues to develop at an increasing speed, has spread to all areas of daily life and has become intricate with life routines. Accordingly, the storage and ...
Equity crowdfunding: the obstacles of the national regulation in Latvia
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2022)
Crowdfunding is rather new, innovative and, since the global crises of 2008, a rapidly growing alternative financing instrument. As part of FinTech, it is a result of the interdisciplinary interaction of technology, ...
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 ...