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Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations in China
The reform of China’s social welfare system, the development of civil society, and the prosperity of corporate social responsibility have nourished...
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Real-World Lessons on Stakeholder Capitalism: How B Lab and B Corp Movement Catalyze Change in Society
B Lab started in 2006, develo** standards, a legal framework and certification to take into account all stakeholders for businesses that wanted to...
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Challenges and implications in achieving content validity of an authentic assessment task designed to assess seafarer’s leadership and managerial skills
Authentic assessment tasks test the students’ knowledge to apply knowledge and skills acquired in classrooms to scenarios resembling real-world...
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Legal, Policy and Institutional Framework for Regulation of UAS in the United States of America (USA)
This Chapter examines the regulatory framework of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the United States of America (USA). It examines how the...
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Patent Linkages and Its Impact on Access to Medicines: Challenges, Opportunities for Develo** Countries
Linking patent protection to generics’ regulatory approvals is a heated topic of discussions and a friction point among countries proposing higher...
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B Corps, Benefit Corporations and Socially Oriented Enterprises in Canada
Benefit corporations are quite new in Canada, having been brought into force only on 30 June 2020 in the province of British Columbia. B Corps,...
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Identifying essential skills and competencies towards building a training framework for future operators of autonomous ships: a qualitative study
Past and ongoing research in the design, development, and implementation of fully autonomous and unmanned ships has revealed operational,...
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Bilingual Study and Research: The Need and Challenges
This article provides general and current information concerning 14 diverse countries regarding bilingual legal education in their respective...
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The Law of Social Enterprises: Surveying a New Field of Research
Social enterprises are becoming increasingly popular across the globe. They are seen, particularly by younger generations, as an exceptionally...
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European Law of Third Sector Organizations from the US Standpoint
This chapter takes stock of the European law of third sector organizations described in this volume, using US law as a point of departure. Its...
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Challenges in Drafting and Applying the New Slovenian Collective Actions Act
The Slovenian Collective Actions Act (CAA) was enacted in September 2017 and came into effect in April 2018. Collective redress available in Slovenia...
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The Last Frontier: Trends and Challenges Related to the Delineation of the Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles
The legal certainty sought through the adoption of convention norms is at odds with the constant evolution of science and technology. This...
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The Impact of Test Data Exclusivity on Abbreviated New Drug Applications in the United States
This chapter examines an aspect of the impact of test data exclusivity through an analysis of the first Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDAs) to...
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Cocoa Certification in West Africa: The Need for Change
The goal of this chapter is to discuss various implementation challenges of current cocoa certification schemes at the farm level in West Africa. To...
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Conclusion, Recommendations and Way Forward
This chapter provides a one-stop-shop repository of all that is covered in the preceding seven chapters of the book. It is acknowledged that there is...
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Instruments for the Legal Protection of Digitized Cultural Heritage in Colombia
Considering that culture is the product of creative and human processes, it is believed that intellectual property is a legal tool that allows for...
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Group Certification: Market Access for Smallholder Agriculture
The group certification concept is well established and consistently implemented under various certification schemes, such as organic. There is a...
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Sha** EU External Relations Beyond Treaty-Making: The Scope of Extraterritorial EU Legislation and Its Enforcement Challenges
The relationship between the European Union (EU) and its partners is essentially based on a network of bilateral, regional or multilateral treaties,...
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European Cloud Service Data Protection Certification
Cloud computing is both an economically promising and an inevitable technology. Nevertheless, some deployment models can be a source of risk in terms...
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Privacy Through Certification?: The New Certification Scheme of the General Data Protection Regulation
This chapter gives an overview of the certification and audit mechanisms which are envisioned by Articles 42 and 43 of the new General Data...