Final Guidance On Environmental Claims Includes Principles To Guide Business: On December 12, 2023, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), an independent Commonwealth statutory authority, announced eight principles intended to help businesses ensure their... Read more »
Leading technology corporations such as Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok convened at the Munich Security Conference on Friday to announce a voluntary commitment aimed at safeguarding democratic elections... Read more »
Europe’s Road to Green Deal Continues A number of climate-related initiatives continue to emerge from Europe: last Wednesday, Members of the European Parliament agreed to delay sector-specific requirements of the European Sustainability... Read more »
Labor & Employment Practice Group partners Jennifer Kogos, Jane Heidingsfelder, and Joe Lavigne co-authored the “Louisiana: Trends and Developments” section for the US Regional Employment 2023 Global Practice Guide, published by Chambers... Read more »
The United States is not the only country currently debating a reform to the law on non-competes. Notably, the UK Government has announced legislation that would limit the duration of non-competes to... Read more »
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released its 2024 World Report on Thursday detailing the state of global human rights. The report’s central theme was that “transactional diplomacy” undermined global human rights institutions and... Read more »
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) officials on Wednesday urged the safeguarding of global supply chains and the prevention of heightened regional tensions in response to Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the... Read more »
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a bill that withdraws Russia as a signatory to the global nuclear test ban treaty. The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is an international... Read more »
vLex (Fastcase) Unveils Beta Version Of Its Global, Multi-Language Generative AI Legal Research Tool
When the legal research companies vLex and Fastcase announced their merger in April, they promised the deal would fuel new opportunities for the development of generative AI for legal research. By creating... Read more »
Edwin Gakunga is a student at the Kenya School of Law and a JURIST Assistant Editor. He files this dispatch from Nairobi. Filing from the vibrant city of Nairobi, Kenya, I find... Read more »