Date: 21May 2014 SYNOPSIS: Big Data computation will increasingly use commercial cloud providers such as Google, Microsoft or Amazon as the locus of analysis due to the...
Tag - Video
Court and Judiciary, Facutly Inaugural Public Lecture, Public and Constitutional Law
Prof Anselmo Reyes: THE FUTURE OF THE JUDICIARY-Reflections on Present Challenges to the Administration of Justice in Hong Kong
Date: 2May 2014 SYNOPSIS: Inaugural Lecture The lecture will highlight six challenges which urgently need to be addressed by the Judiciary in the interests of...
Conference and Seminars, Criminal Law, Human Rights, International and Comparative law, Public and Constitutional Law
Prof Paul Roberts: Confronting Strasbourg: From Common Law Criminal Procedure and European Fair Trial Rights to Cosmopolitan Criminal Jurisprudence
Date: 07May 2014 SYNOPSIS: This paper explores the on-going impact of human rights norms on English criminal procedure. Recent Strasbourg case-law in relation to, e.g...
Conference and Seminars, Court and Judiciary, Public and Constitutional Law
David Law: Judicial Comparativism and Judicial Diplomacy
Date: 02May 2014 SYNOPSIS: Much has been said on the normative question of whether and in what ways courts ought to engage with foreign law. Rarely, however, do scholars...
Conference and Seminars, International and Comparative law, Law and Technology and Intellectual Property
Dr Žiga Turk: Communication & Technology in the Past, Present and Future of Europe
Date: 30Apr 2014 SYNOPSIS: Elements of society, individuals, families, businesses, states and other organizations are held together by communication. Throughout history...
Conference and Seminars, Human Rights, International and Comparative law, Law and Technology and Intellectual Property, Public and Constitutional Law
Prof. Anupam Chander: Surveillance Along the Electronic Silk Road-China and the United States
Date: 29Apr 2014 SYNOPSIS: Fears of surveillance across borders are driving nations to cut off their countries with Berlin Walls for data, threatening to break apart the...
Chinese Law, Human Rights, Law and Technology and Intellectual Property, Public and Constitutional Law
Dr Rogier Creemers: The Privilege of Speech and New Media in China
Date: 09Apr 2014 SYNOPSIS: Even though freedom of speech is part of China’s Constitution, it has never been consistently and coherently implemented in China. The...
Conference and Seminars, Human Rights, Law and Medical ethics
Prof Eric M. Meslin: Data Sharing in Health and Science-Something to Fear or Embrace?
Date: 08Apr 2014 SYNOPSIS: In 1969 Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan said: “The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.”...
Arbitration & Mediation, Conference and Seminars
Mr Trip Barthel M.A.: Affirmative Facilitation-The Role of Positive Psychology in Conflict Resolution
Date: 02Apr 2014 SYNOPSIS: Happiness has been a high profile subject over the last decade with books like Emotional Intelligence, practices like Positive Psychology and...
Arbitration & Mediation, Chinese Law, Conference and Seminars
Prof Thomas J. Stipanowich & Prof Jack J. Coe: American Developments in International Arbitration / Investment Arbitration
Date: 01Apr 2014 SYNOPSIS: Professor Stipanowich has recently been central to two surveys conducted in the arbitration world: one canvasses Fortune 1000 companies about...