JURIST

MARCH 16, 2024

The agreement marks significant progress in the establishment of the body, initially proposed by Parliament in 2021 and deemed “unsatisfactory” in 2023. In a 2023 plenary session , MEPs found the draft proposal’s powers to be weak. It now allows five experts to examine individual conflicts of interest.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In November 2023, the African Union convened a conference in Accra, leading to a proclamation for reparative justice and an official designation of 2025 as the Year for Justice for Africa Through Reparations. The push for reparations has recently gained momentum.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the Egyptian government on Tuesday to revise the draft of the new asylum bill, known as the Law Regarding the Asylum of Foreigners (LRAF), and urged the government to consult with civil society and the United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to ensure that the bill aligns with international standards.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The request for an advisory opinion from the ICJ was submitted in March 2023, following the unanimous adoption of Resolution 77/276 by the UN General Assembly. The oral proceedings are scheduled from Monday, December 2, to Friday, December 13, 2024, at the Peace Palace in The Hague.

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JURIST

MARCH 1, 2023

In March 2023, ICHREE is expected to deliver an oral report to the UN concerning its work. The call to reject Ethiopia’s draft resolution came after Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen’s February 15, 2023 announcement that Ethiopia would present a resolution calling for the dissolution of ICHREE.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

Valentine We recently blogged about a new December 2024 draft guidance about accelerated approval (the December 2024 draft guidance). These draft guidances also discuss how the Agency plans to interpret whether such a study needs to be underway at the time of approval and, if so, whether it is underway. Raver & James E.

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JURIST

JUNE 13, 2021

The Bundestag adopted the draft law by a large majority. The law applies to companies with more than 3,000 employees as of 2023, and 1,000 employees in 2024. The resulting final draft requires companies to act on specific incidents, and then only if they have substantiated knowledge of the abuse.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 25, 2024

It is still in draft form and much of the wording is in square brackets, indicating that it has not yet been agreed amongst the parties. It has suggested that the parties consider adopting a resolution on marine geoengineering and provided draft text for discussion at the upcoming meeting.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The draft version of the laws was prepared by the SCRA , the National Security Committee (NSC) , and the Interior Ministry at the regimes initiative, according to the documentation accompanying the then-draftlaws. According to General Comment No.

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JURIST

AUGUST 21, 2024

Draft Law 8731 relies on Article 35 of the Constitution of Ukraine, which notes freedom from personal philosophy and religion and that Ukraine is separate from the Church and other religious organisations. On October 19, 2023, the first reading was adopted with amendments in agreement with Article 116 of the Constitution of Ukraine.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 7, 2023

What if, instead of making a big list of all the things that you want to accomplish in 2024, you just took a moment to celebrate what you’ve accomplished in 2023? I drafted my first complaint. I want you to do something a little different this year. Prefer Audio Instead of Reading? Or what went on inside the walls, right?

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

India’s government on Friday invited feedback and comments on the Draft Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, 2023, which was introduced on the same day to modernize the regulatory framework for broadcasting services, including Over-the-Top(OTT) content.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

According to the 2023 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), immigration has rapidly increased in Iceland since the 1990s. It is reported that in the middle of 2023, foreign citizens made up roughly 18 percent of the Icelandic population compared to the 2 percent reported in the mid-1990s.

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JURIST

JUNE 3, 2024

The draft law was first announced on February 14, 2023. On March 9, 2023, the Georgian parliament rejected the bill at its second reading. However, the government was initially unable to continue consideration of this bill due to large-scale protests.

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JURIST

JUNE 18, 2024

Amnesty’s Secretary-General called on the UN and its member states to take advantage of the opportunity to include gender apartheid in the draft of the Convention on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity. However, Amnesty International indicated that the scope of this provision does not precisely involve gender apartheid.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Following a sitting of the Latvian Cabinet of Ministers on Thursday, the new draft order “On Suspension of Operation of Border Crossing Points on the State Border of the Republic of Latvia – Russian Federation” was released.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 21, 2023

These were the top 10 paralegal career takeaways and actionable strategies from 2023. They taught me how to draft a legal research memo using the IRAC method, but no one’s asking me to draft a legal research memo. ” The answer, make a career development plan and put it in writing. Look, you’re not alone.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Resolution 2750 extends the sanctions originally established by Resolution 1591 and renewed by Resolution 2676 on March 8, 2023. The negotiations for this resolution proceeded smoothly, with the United States, serving as the penholder on Sudan sanctions, presenting a draft that built upon Resolution 2676.

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JURIST

MARCH 15, 2024

The proposed law seeks to “put an end to judicial processes and sentences” against anyone who took part in the Catalan independence campaign that took place between November 1, 2011 and November 13, 2023. The government estimated that more than 400 people will be affected.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The good news for firms is that AI is getting better: Linklaters noted there was a “significant improvement” in the results when compared with tests it ran in October 2023.

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JURIST

AUGUST 5, 2023

The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 was introduced over privacy concerns voiced by opposition leaders, who argued that the bill should be submitted to the Lok Sabha’s Standing committee for an in-depth review. A draft of the current bill was shared for consultation in December 2022.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The report also discusses recent legislative proposals, including a protest law reintroduced to Parliament in May 2023, and a draft NGO law, both of which civil society representatives fear may further restrict civic freedoms. These organizations called for the implementation of UNCED recommendations.

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JURIST

AUGUST 25, 2022

The order will take effect in January 2023. “I wonder if this will mean a larger draft. Noting logistical difficulties with drafting more soldiers to replace the number of officers and NCOs Russia has already lost in battle, Lee added: “Russia isn’t producing enough officers either.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 10, 2023

Now, they have to establish permanent solutions, with the help of recommendations drafted by a bipartisan committee that has been meeting for the past year. . Lawmakers responded to the ruling by temporarily making drug possession a simple misdemeanor.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The petition was originally created in 2021 by victims and organisations who are asking the court to make the government draft reforms limiting the police’s powers to conduct “stop and search”, rather than for damages. The petition also calls for the encounters with the police to be recorded and kept as evidence.

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InHouseBlog

JANUARY 2, 2024

As we head into 2024, let’s recap some great resources for in-house counsel that made a large impact in 2023: Sterling Miller’s “Ten Things” Blog : With a keen eye and impressive wit, Sterling Miller provided a tremendous number of informative and useful resources for in-house counsel in 2023. Let us know !

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 29, 2023

The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau issued the first of its Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) audit letters for 2023 to randomly selected radio and television stations. The deadline for the selected stations to upload responses to their FCC-hosted online public inspection file is June 8, 2023. GHz) band for next-generation wireless services.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

FDA-2024-N-3945 ] announcing the publication of a draft strategy document, for public comment, outlining specific actions FDA plans to take to facilitate the use of innovative manufacturing technologies. It was at this workshop that the agency committed to issuing a draft strategy document, for public comment.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 14, 2023

Reports for those stations are due to be uploaded to each station’s online public inspection file by June 1, 2023, the fourth anniversary of the June 1, 2019 filing deadline for those stations’ last license renewal application. The fine stemmed from the 2019 displacement of the station from Channel 31 to Channel 10.

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Australian Labour government Monday released a draft of the Family Law Amendment Bill 2023 to amend the Family Law Act 1975.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

While ICH E6(R3) was still in the development phase, the FDA released a draft guidance in May 2023 in the form of the draft ICH E6(R3). Livornese As anticipated, the International Council for Harmonization (ICH) published the Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guideline E6(R3) Principles and Annex 1 on January 6, 2025.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert — On September 6, 2023, FDA announced its latest efforts to modernize the 510(k) process, outlining FDA’s latest improvements to strengthen the 510(k) Program and announcing release of three draft guidance documents. Baumhardt, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & Adrienne R.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Permanent Bureau is pleased to announce that a colloquium on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), titled “CODIFI Edition 2023 – CBDCs”, will be held online on Thursday 5 October 2023, following the mandate of the Council on General Affairs and Policy (CGAP) at its 2023 meeting ( C&D No 17 ). CEST), respectively.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 8, 2023

Javitt — FDA recently published a long-awaited draft guidance aimed at reducing the need for prior FDA authorization of modifications to artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)-enabled device software functions (ML-DSFs). The draft guidance follows the December 2022 enactment of the Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act of 2022 (FDORA).

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Patently O

DECEMBER 10, 2023

22-CV-04376-HSG, 2023 WL 7739816 (N.D. 15, 2023) Docket No. This demonstrated the claim was drafted in a result-oriented or functional manner focused on the principle itself. by Dennis Crouch Western Digital Techs., Viasat, Inc. , In a recent decision, Judge Haywood (N.D.Cal.)

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Then, you can export the outline when you are ready to to begin drafting a brief. New Outline Builder aims to shave time off research and drafting. By the year’s end, Westlaw Precision will add arbitration, insurance and real estate to its coverage and another dozen areas of law will be added in 2023.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Two litigation-focused Canadian legal technology companies, CiteRight and Jurisage , have merged, combining CiteRight’s litigation drafting program with Jurisage’s AI technology to create an integrated legal research and drafting solution. ” The companies expect to complete the merger by year end.

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