“The Whanganui River is officially a living being and legal person. Māori leaders explain how Indigenous knowledge and persistence made it happen.”

“Today, the Whanganui River has a formal voice over decisions that impact it—through human representatives”

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12012026/indigenous-knowledge-helped-whanganui-river-rights/

#Climate #Environment #Biodiversity #Green #Ecology #Indigenous #Activism #Law

“The Whanganui River is officially a living being and legal person. Māori leaders explain how Indigenous knowledge and persistence made it happen.”

“Today, the Whanganui River has a formal voice over decisions that impact it—through human representatives”

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12012026/indigenous-knowledge-helped-whanganui-river-rights/

#Climate #Environment #Biodiversity #Green #Ecology #Indigenous #Activism #Law

- 4-year PhD position
- in Empirical Legal Research
- on Rule of Law and Judicial Politics
- at Erasmus School of Law
- with Aylin Aydin-Çakır

https://www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/357019/phd-position-in-empirical-legal-research-on-the-rule-of-law-judicial-politics/

#CfA #PhD #Law #AcademicJobs #Economics #PoliticalScience

- 4-year PhD position
- in Empirical Legal Research
- on Rule of Law and Judicial Politics
- at Erasmus School of Law
- with Aylin Aydin-Çakır

https://www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/357019/phd-position-in-empirical-legal-research-on-the-rule-of-law-judicial-politics/

#CfA #PhD #Law #AcademicJobs #Economics #PoliticalScience

HUGE win today for the climate in Norway!

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Norwegian government must consider the global climate impact before approving new oil and gas projects

"This judgment will have ripple effects far beyond Norway” says Sigrid Hoddevik Losnegård of Young Friends of the Earth Norway, who brought the case with Greenpeace Norway and six youth activists

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/79332/european-human-rights-court-sets-climate-limits-for-the-oil-industry/

#Climate #ClimateJustice #HumanRights #Norway #Law

HUGE win today for the climate in Norway!

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Norwegian government must consider the global climate impact before approving new oil and gas projects

"This judgment will have ripple effects far beyond Norway” says Sigrid Hoddevik Losnegård of Young Friends of the Earth Norway, who brought the case with Greenpeace Norway and six youth activists

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/79332/european-human-rights-court-sets-climate-limits-for-the-oil-industry/

#Climate #ClimateJustice #HumanRights #Norway #Law

CNBC: U.S. Supreme Court allows order forcing Google to make app store reforms. “The justices turned down Google’s request to temporarily freeze parts of the injunction won by Epic in its lawsuit accusing the tech giant of monopolizing how consumers access apps on Android devices and pay for transactions within apps.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/08/cnbc-u-s-supreme-court-allows-order-forcing-google-to-make-app-store-reforms/

CNBC: U.S. Supreme Court allows order forcing Google to make app store reforms. “The justices turned down Google’s request to temporarily freeze parts of the injunction won by Epic in its lawsuit accusing the tech giant of monopolizing how consumers access apps on Android devices and pay for transactions within apps.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/08/cnbc-u-s-supreme-court-allows-order-forcing-google-to-make-app-store-reforms/

If the Court of Justice of the European Union is, as is often argued, the most powerful international court the world has seen, why is serious resistance against it not more commonplace?

This is the question I ask in my PhD thesis, which I successfully defended at the #EUI last Friday. Today it has been made available open access through the university repository!

https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/76659
#CJEU #politicalscience #judicialpolitics#law #courts#Europe #EUlaw #ECJ
@politicalscience @law

“An AI version of Gayanne Potter's voice is being used on Scotland’s trains

– but she has told Sky News she had no idea until a friend called her”

Is this even legal?

https://news.sky.com/video/womans-voice-used-as-artificial-intelligence-train-announcer-without-her-knowing-13375688

#AI #Scotland #DigitalRights #UK #Law