When Assad’s forces withdrew from large parts of the northern and eastern provinces, a wide consensus emerged of rebuilding the judicial system on an Islamic basis

 

Thomas Pierret, Lecturer in Contemporary Islam, University of Edinburgh

 

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Regulation of Digital Media Platforms: The case of China
In this policy brief, Dr Jufang Wang reviews China's regulation of digital media platforms against the backdrop of the party-state's concerns that
The Social Cost of Pharmaceutical Mass Tort Litigation
Can the rights of individuals to make personal injury claims from pharmaceutical companies have adverse long-term consequences for society?
Reducing Online Harms through a Differentiated Duty of Care: A Response to the Online Harms White Paper
LSE media expert and Government adviser Damian Tambini argues that social media companies have a 'duty of care' to protect users from harms caused

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A Fundamental(ly) European ‘right to be forgotten’

Can the Internet ever ‘forget’ personal details about us?
Facebook, Big Data, and the Privatization of Justice in the Digital Age

The recent controversy over how Cambridge Analytica manipulated personal data gathered from Facebook has heightened the debate over the dangers...
How the UK’s ‘internal market’ depends on EU rules – and jeopardizes relations within the UK

Around the same time as the Government decided that the UK will leave the EU’s single/internal market, the Government also started to talk about...

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Governance of Public Opinion in the Age of Platforms: A Study of China

Jufang Wang, a former news editor in China and academic visitor at the BBC and Oxford University, offers insights into China’s news...

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