为迷茫的世界注入希望,为人类的进步探索方向(和音)[Inject hope into the confused world and explore the...
Pic Credit here (Roy Lichtenstein 1964) Most people, if pressed, might confess a definitive preference for hope in a confused world--even for hope in a world a little less confused than one might...
View ArticleEssays on Climate Change and Public Law--French Yearbook of Public Law (Issue...
The French Yearbook of Public Law describes itself this way: The objective of the “French Yearbook of Public Law” is to narrow the gap which has tended to develop between the French and the...
View ArticleCognitive Cloaks, Complicity, and the Art of Engaging with Warfare Without...
Pix Credit here Our friends at the Norwegian Pension Fund Global's Ethics Council have been busy in their usual manner. Norges Bank announced on 15 May that it would adopt the Ethics Council...
View Article2024年“最美职工” [2024's Best Workers] and other Interventions in the New Era...
Pix Credit here: 2024's Best Workers hereThe latest issue of Qiushi 《求是》(10th Issue 2024, 15 May 2024) is built around productivity and production in the New Era. That is, it is meant to underscore...
View ArticleBricolage: 习近平主席在十四届全国人大一次会议闭幕会上的重要讲话让海外华侨华人信心倍增 [President Xi Jinping’s...
Diaspora communities are sometimes an essential element of creating community and developing lines of communication, cultural connections, and solidarity between States and their diasporas. It has...
View ArticleUseful Resources from the Future of Life Institute (FLI): "The AI Act Explorer"
For those of you interested in exploring the EU's new Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, the Future of Life Institute (FLI): "The AI Act Explorer" may prove helpful. It is based, for the moment on...
View ArticleMarco Fasciglione, 'Impresa e diritti umani nel diritto internazionale Teoria...
For those who read Italian and are interested in issues of business and human rights as these notions are been developing in Europe recently, Marco Fasciglione's marvelous Impresa e diritti umani...
View ArticleGANHRI Statement (8 May 2024): "Business and Human Rights: The Role and...
Pix credit hereFor those who may have missed this, οn 8 May 2024, National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) from all regions gathered in Geneva for the Annual Conference of the Global Alliance of...
View ArticleConfess Your Faults and Pray for One Another (James 5:16) on the Day After...
Pix Credit here President Joe Biden delivered the commencement address at Morehouse College on Sunday morning, his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war...
View ArticleThe making of an Artificial Intelligence Law Q&A with the creators of...
Pic Credit hereThe folks over at the European Chinese Law Research Hub (with thanks to Marianne von Blomberg, Editor ECLR Hub, Research Associate, Chair for Chinese Legal Culture, University of...
View Article"Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Applications for arrest...
On 20 May 2020, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan issued a statement describing his application to seek arrest warrants for certain officials of the organization Hamas and the...
View ArticleJean Christopher Mittelstaedt: "The grid management system in contemporary...
Pix Credit hereThough I come to this sort of late, I was delighted to have had a chance to read Jean Christopher Mittelstaedt: "The grid management system in contemporary China: Grass-roots governance...
View ArticleAnnouncing Webinar: " Latin America and the Caribbean Invest in China" 27 May...
I am delighted to pass along this invitation from Enrique Dussel Peters:I would hereby like to invite you to assist to the webinar (in Spanish) on the latest book (in English) on "LATIN AMERICAN AND...
View ArticleCommon Understandings Between China and Brazil on Political Settlement of the...
Between 2008 and 2010 I wrote a number of essays about the political and ideological tutelege of Lula da Silva by his friend and mentor Fidel Catro Ruz. In that context (in 2010) I wrote:Brazil has...
View Article(South Africa v. Israel) Order of 24 May 2024 on a Request for the...
Pix credit here Upon consideration of South Africa's request for the modification and the indication of provisional measures submitted 10 May 2024, the International Court of Justice has issued it...
View ArticleThe Semiotic Ideology of Harmonizing Civilizations as Moving Contructs: Ibrar...
For with with an interest in linguistics and semiotics, applied to notions of collectove inter-penetration within a political herarchically shaped space, a book recently authored by Ibrar Bhatt...
View ArticleReligion May be Forever--But Not Among Peoples: Johan Elverskog, "A History...
People sometimes tend to think of Religion in Human terms; and humans in terms of ethno-collective categories. Humans, however, are not Religion; nor is it necessary identical to its human structures...
View ArticlePart 8 (Part II, Chapter 7 UNGP: State Duty to Protect Human Rights,...
Pix credit here I have been working on the production of a comprehensive commentary of the United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights. This is a humbling task. It follows the...
View ArticleJournal of Law and Religion Volume 39, Issue 1 | January 2024 Free to read...
The new issue of the Journal of Law and Religion is now available. You will find the full table of contents and abstracts below. The articles are free to access through 30 June 2024.EssayKierkegaard...
View ArticleFilm Zoom Webinar: "Cuba’s Forgotten Jewels: A Haven in Havana " 25 June 2024
I am delighted to pass along information about a quite interesting webinar: "Cuba’s Forgotten Jewels: A Haven in Havana " 25 June 2024 from NOON to 1330 US East Coast Time. This from the...
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