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The EU Directive 2017/541 from a fundamental rights’ perspective
Directive (EU) 2017/541 played an important role in harmonising EU counterterrorism legislation. However, if on the one hand this may be considered a...
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Fundamental Rights Problems in OLAF Composite Enforcement Procedures
This chapter answers the question whether OLAF’s composite enforcement procedures result in violations of the fundamental rights of the person...
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The Protection of Fundamental Rights in OLAF Composite Enforcement Procedures: Conclusions, Recommendations and an EPPO Outlook
Where OLAF’s composite enforcement procedures results in violations of the fundamental rights of the person concerned, OLAF’s legal framework, and...
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Vietnam’s Regulation on Intellectual Property Rights Protection: The Context of Digital Transformation
Vietnam is home to a prospering technology community and numerous enterprises that range from small start-ups to development giants. Virtually all...
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The Exercise of Fundamental Rights in Pandemic Times
The present article examines the defining features of fundamental rights and freedoms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on...
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Sweden, Fundamental Rights and the EU Charter
In the Swedish constitutional tradition, the idea that omnipresent fundamental rights should take precedence over national legislation and decisions...
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The Role of Fundamental Rights in OLAF Composite Enforcement Procedures
OLAF’s mission is to fight fraud, corruption and any other illegal activity that affects the financial interests of the Union. To that end, OLAF...
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The Rule of Law Under Pressure: A Transnational Perspective
In a period of rising threats to constitutional government within countries and among them, it is a crucial time to study the rule of law in...
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Environmental Rights
Both the legislative and executive branches seem incapable of making changes fast enough to save humanity from another mass extinction. As a result,...
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Human Rights as Foundation of Transnational Constitutionalism? How to Respond to “Constitutional Implementation Deficits”
Rainer Hofmann and I shared the enlightening experience of having written our ‘habilitation books’ under the supervision of Professor Rudolf...
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Realignment of the German Fundamental Rights Review: Implications of the “Right to be Forgotten” Decisions for the Application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights as a Relevant Standard
With its two decisions of 6 November 2019 on the so-called Right to be Forgotten (1 BvR 16/13 and 1 BvR 276/17), the Second Senate of the...
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A human rights-based approach for effective criminal justice response to human trafficking
Human trafficking is a complex, multifaceted, and deeply layered issue. Consequently, any mitigation strategy employed against it must also be...
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Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights Defenders Under the UNGPs and Steps Towards Mandatory Due Diligence
Besides state actors, non-state actors and particularly private companies target human rights defenders (HRDs) and violate their rights to intimidate...
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Restrictions on the Constitutional Fundamental Rights in Bangladesh: Wednesbury Unreasonableness and Proportionality
The Bangladesh Constitution provides that some fundamental rights are absolute while others are qualified on different grounds. Such an architecture...
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Personality and Data Protection Rights on the Internet: Introduction
This article gives a brief overview of the development of the Internet and the rise of the onlife worldOnlife World. As a socio-technical...
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A Look Behind the Legal Scene: Philosophical Stakeholder Responses to Fundamental Human Rights
This chapter takes a step behind the legal scene by exploring the theoretical stakeholder frameworks that have contributed to different approaches to...
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The ‘International Crimes’ Exception to the Fundamental Rights Regime of the Bangladesh Constitution
The inclusion of fundamental rights and their enforcement are one of the basic features of the Bangladesh Constitution, subject to certain lawful...
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Bringing Governance Home: Feminists, Domestic Violence, and the Paradoxes of Rights in India
Feminists have had spectacular successes transnationally in shifting the norms governing family life through legislation proscribing domestic...
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Preserving the Rule of Law Through Transnational Soft Law: The Cooperation and Verification Mechanism
This contribution reflects on the role of soft law instruments to address the rule of law crisis, a topic of high relevance in the context of this...
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Social Networks and the Exercise of Fundamental Rights: Public Administration and the Digitalization of Fundamental Rights
The use of social networks may increase the potential for risks and violations of fundamental rights. Still, it can also be seen as a platform for...