Category: News
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Dr Kyriaki Noussia On Modern Threats to Environmental Sustainability in the Arctic
Dr Kyriaki Noussia contributed an article titled ‘On Modern Threats to Environmental Sustainability in the Arctic: The Climate Change Factor‘ to the European Energy and Environmental Law Review. The article is set against the backdrop of the growing possibility to explore natural resources and usage of new navigation routes in shipping due to the ice…
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Naomi Hawkins appointed as QUEX Theme Lead
Dr Naomi Hawkins has been appointed as theme lead for the QUEX Institute’s new theme: Digital Worlds and Disruptive Technologies. The QUEX Institute of Global Sustainability and Wellbeing is a collaboration between The University of Queensland and University of Exeter. Its mission is to deliver innovative research engaging with crucial global challenges under three interdisciplinary…
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SCuLE’s Response to the EMRIP Report on Repatriation of Ceremonial Objects and human remains
The Centre for Science, Culture and the Law at Exeter published a Response for the EMRIP Report on repatriation of ceremonial objects and human remains under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The report was submitted in response to the call by the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous People.…
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Dr Kyriaki Noussia co-edited InsurTech: A Legal and Regulatory View
Dr Kyriaki Noussia co-edited InsurTech: A Legal and Regulatory View with Pierpaolo Marano as part of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation. The Volume explores the key trends in InsurTech and the potential legal and regulatory issues that accompany them. InsurTech is an industry that emerged as a result of increasing…
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Dr Kyriaki Noussia co-authored Law and Autonomous Vehicles
Dr Kyriaki Noussia co-authored Law and Autonomous Vehicles with Dr Matthew Channon and Barrister Lucy McCormack. Law and Autonomous Vehicles analyses the key legal issues facing autonomous vehicles, including testing on public roads, insurance, product liability, and cyber security and data protection. It also examines the approaches in other jurisdictions, such as Austria, Germany, Greece,…
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Prof Hitoshi Nasu on The Perfidy Implications of Invisibility Technology on Battlefields of the Future
Professor Hitoshi Nasu contributed a chapter titled “Invisible Soldiers” to The Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Law of Armed Conflict edited by Ronald T.P. Alcala and Eric Talbot Jensen. The chapter considers interpretation of the Law of Armed Conflict in the context of the use of invisibility technology in warfare. Recent technological developments point that…
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SCuLE’s space law policy brief in the Times
SCuLE’s policy brief on the future regulation of the UK space industry was cited by the Times newspaper, in an article published on 16 October 2019 . The brief calls for update of the UK’s legislation to support technology companies that wish to operate in space industry. Dr Naomi Hawkins warned that the current laws…
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Incentives to Plead Guilty may Undermine the Right to a Fair Trial
Research by Dr. Rebecca Helm and published in the Journal of Law and Society suggests that incentives to plead guilty in England and Wales may undermine the right to a fair trial and lead the innocent to plead guilty. The research shows that many defendants in England and Wales face powerful incentives to plead guilty,…
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Prof Hitoshi Nasu mentioned in the MIT Technology Review
SCuLE’s Professor Hitoshi Nasu was quoted in an article titled “How to fight a war in space (and get away with it)” published on 26 June 2019 in the MIT Technology Review. The article evaluates a growing possibility of using destruction of foreign satellites as an act of war. It is pointed that, to some…
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Finding Polaris in the Future Regulation of the UK Space Industry
The Centre for Science, Culture and the Law at Exeter publish their second policy brief on the future regulation of the UK space industry, SCuLE Policy Brief No 2. The UK space technology industry is essential for the growth of the UK economy, being vital in particular to communications and national security, and the legal…