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Doctoral scholarship: International accountability through the value chain in Antwerp

Conflict of Laws

It examines recent and pending legislation on value chain due diligence in selected countries and/or regional organisations. The research can be approached from the perspective of human rights law, public international law or private international law, including private law mechanisms (either in tort or in contract law).

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Thailand court’s dismissal of spyware misuse lawsuit spurs international concern

JURIST

Pai first brought the tort complaint in July 2023 based on a warning email sent by Apple and a 2022 joint report by Thai civil society groups and Citizen Lab. The report found that the Pegasus spyware attacked at least 30 people, most of whom were involved in the 2020-2021 protests for Thailand’s Pro-Democracy Movement.

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Compensatory damages equal to amount plaintiff paid for home affirmed in fraud case.

Day on Torts

Where there was material evidence to show that plaintiff met her required due diligence, the jury verdict for plaintiff on her intentional misrepresentation and fraud claim was affirmed. M2021-01335-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 17175608 (Tenn. 23, 2022), the issues revolved around plaintiff’s purchase of a home. In Hogue v.

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Dismissal partially reversed based on fraudulent concealment.

Day on Torts

M2021-00487-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 1404357 (Tenn. May 4, 2022), plaintiffs filed this pro se action that revolved around a newly built home they bought in August 2017 that had allegedly developed severe mold issues. In Simpkins v. John Maher Builders, Inc. , internal citation and quotations omitted).

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Tennessee HCLA Case Dismissed under Statute of Limitations.

Day on Torts

M2022-00476-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 16545403 (Tenn. 31, 2022), patient was hospitalized at defendant hospital from August 7-24, 2020. Note: Chapter 50, Section 3 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision. In Jackson v. Vanderbilt University Medical Center , No.

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Tennessee Legal Malpractice Claim Filed Too Late

Day on Torts

M2020-01438-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 168145 (Tenn. 19, 2022), plaintiff county filed this legal malpractice suit against defendant attorney who had represented the county in an underlying action filed by a former county employee. In Coffee County v. Spining , No. internal citation omitted). This opinion was released 2.5

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New issue alert: RabelsZ 87 (2023), Issue 3

Conflict of Laws

An Ontology of the In-Between [18th Ernst Rabel Lecture, 2022] [OPEN ACCESS], 433–464, DOI: 10.1628/rabelsz-2023-0063 The conflict of laws can serve heuristically to underscore two established but radically opposing models of modernist legal ordering: multilateralism and statutism. The latest issue of RabelsZ has just been released.