Justice on Trial: Opening Up the Black Box of the Tokyo Tribunal
The U.S.-China competition in waters of the Indo-Pacific, harboring an array of security dilemmas, has ignited debates about the likelihood of war and adequate diplomatic, military, and legal remedies to prevent such a catastrophe. Tumultuous periods of human history such as the 1930s, WWII, and the…
Convention 108+ Signatories and Adequacy Under the GDPR
In today’s world, it is hard to imagine that any organisation might use personal data without transferring it, and commonly used cloud applications can serve as an illustrative example. Most organizations use at least one of them in every day’s work, which implies transferring personal data across t…
Outer space as a global common
An increasingly interconnected and interdependent world marked by uncertainties, threats, and instability requires a complex strategy of governance in order to strengthen the prospects of peace, equity, and eco-sustainability. This complex strategy of governance, inter alia, necessitates ongoing eff…
Ecocide – the genocide of the 21st century? Eastern European perspective
Every European lawyer is familiar with the term “ genocide ”, introduced in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent. The term was coined based on his earlier concepts of “ barbarity ” and “ vandalism ” , in reaction to the impunity of Ottoman perpetrators of the 1915-1917 Armenian …