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Geographical indications in EU-Vietnam FTA: beyond quality control

17 January 2018

Concluded at the end of 2015, the European Union-Vietnam FTA (EVFTA) has marked a successive breakthrough for the EU in exporting its long-standing sui generis protection of geographical indications (GIs). With respect to the scope of protection, the GI chapter in EVFTA has introduced a peculiar...
Holding the security industry liable for terrorism-related risk difficult

13 December 2016
Published on LBM. As the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11 has shown, terrorism can lead to large-scale damage, massive property damage, thousands of cases of personal injury, pain and suffering and enormous consequential damage, including billions in lost profits. Can the security industry be...
by:
- M.G. Faure
in Law
To Brexit or not to Brexit?

4 July 2016
Much has been written about the Brexit referendum on 23 June 2016 and the 52-48 result in favour of termination of the UK's membership of the EU... This blog is only available in Dutch.
by:
- A.W. Heringa
in Law