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CfP: Conference--"Thicker Notions of Human Rights Accountability" 19-21...
I am delighted to pass along this call for contributions for a very exciting and timely conference: Thicker Notions of Human Rights Accountabilities. The description nicely captures the...
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Ji Li: Book Talk--"Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the U.S. Legal...
My dear friend and colleague Jamie P. Horsley 贺诗礼, Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, has passed along a notice of a quite interesting book talk to be held at Georgetown University on 5 February...
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Mr. Trump Issues "A Plan for Establishing a United States Sovereign Wealth...
Pix Credit here Given all of the activity originating from the U.S. Office of the President since the start of President Trump's 2nd Administration, it would not be surprising that n 3 February 2025...
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Text of "Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Withdraws from Anti-American...
Pix credit here In an action that is not unexpected, Mr. Trump announced that the Nited States would withdraw from certain U.N. organizations, "withdrawing the United States from the UN Human Rights...
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Davos Discourse 4: The Chinese Path--Address by Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang's...
I have been considering the discursive trajectories of remarks by significant stakeholders delivered at the 2025 meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos. For me, the remarks tend to serve as a...
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Future Risk and Present Trust in the Context of Labor Exploitation: The...
Pix Credit FincantieriOn 6 February, it was announced that following recommendations from the Council on Ethics, Norges Bank has announced its decision regarding the observation of two companies in...
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The Trump Administration Imposes Sanctions on the International Criminal...
Pix credit here Once upon a time, those who drove thinking among (mostly) liberal democratic states thought that politics and its excesses might be well managed within a cage of law. There was a...
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Academe Winter Issue Vol. 111(1) 2025 Published--With Links to Articles:...
Academe's Winter 2025 | Volume 111, No. 1 is now available. This from the Pess Release:The winter issue of Academe examines the impact of war on higher education, especially in...
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Posting Pre-Publication Draft of Article: "Cuba and the Constitution of a...
Pix credit New York Times Happy to share the pre-publication draft of my essay, Cuba and the Constitution of a Stable State of Misery: Ideology, Economic Policy, and Popular Discipline. It will be...
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“Interlocking Legalities of the Chinese Presence in Latin America and Its...
I was delighted to participate in the conference, “The Legal Dimensions of China’s Presence in Latin America,” organized by the brilliant Dr. Monika Prusinowska (University of Barcelona) and Dr....
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Text of EU Commission Guidelines on the definition of an artificial...
Pix credit hereGenerally, within the cognitive cages of human engagements with an ordering reality, nothing can exist unless it is named (the ancient Chinese notion of ming-ming; and of course its...
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田飞龙: 特朗普或可称为世界历史“东升西降”的第一推动力 [Tian Feilong: Trump may be called the first...
Pix credit Amy Balong, MediumIt is always important to see what may be coming up for public consumption from the faculty of 中央民族大学法学 (Law School of Minzu University of China) especially since 强世功...
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Vice President JD Vance's Jack Ma Moment?: AI and the EU, Text of Remarks...
Pix credit hereGood innovation can coexist with regulations, but not regulations of yesterday. We cannot manage an airport the way we manage a train station, nor can we manage the future the way we...
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Democratic Demons and Family Drama, A Valentine's Day Text From the United...
Pix credit The Guardian I believe that dismissing people, dismissing their concerns or worse yet, shutting down media, shutting down elections or shutting people out of the political process protects...
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Shuyu Chu: The Infrastructure of Control: Rethinking Party Discipline in...
Pix credit here The 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...
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President Zelenskyy's Reponse to Vice President Vance at the Munich Security...
We must give strength to Europe first. Does America need Europe? As a market – yes. But as an ally? I don’t know. For the answer to be “Yes”, Europe needs a single voice – not a dozen different ones....
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Spicing Things Up at Munich--the 2025 G7 Foreign Ministers’ Statement on the...
Pix Credit US Embassy in Italy Media Note Cooks have known for thousands of years that a little bit of space can perk things up. In politics, dissonance is a sort of spice that makes the multi-sourced...
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Opening Remarks by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at Ukraine Defense...
Pix credit here “There is no betrayal there. There is a recognition that the whole world and the United States is invested and interested in peace. A negotiated peace,” Hegesth told reporters. (PBS...
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EU Commission Makes Available its "Living Repository to Foster Learning and...
Pix Credit here Article 4 of the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending...
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For those who Missed it: President Trump and Prime Minister Modi United...
Pix credit The New Indian As the leaders of sovereign and vibrant democracies that value freedom, the rule of law, human rights, and pluralism, President Trump and Prime Minister Modi reaffirmed the...
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