Transnational state-sponsored cyber economic espionage: a legal quagmire

Cyber Espionage and Illegitimate Information Retrieval

One of the most serious threats to a modern country’s trade, industry and long-term economic development is cyber espionage and insiders. The activities are directed against high-technological industries and companies with advanced basic research. The defence and telecoms sectors are of particular interest, just as biotechnics, medical and material technology. Behind this kind of espionage ther...

Gender Stereotyping : Transnational Legal Perspectives

The book Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives orients gender stereotyping as the underlying cause of much of the discrimination that occurs against women throughout the world. The book discusses the duty and ability of state and non-state actors to dismantle negative gender stereotypes and diminish their effect. The authors, Rebecca J. Cook and Simone Cusack, writing from a tra...

THE CYBER ESPIONAGE BLUEPRINT: Understanding Commonalities In Targeted Malware Campaigns

State-sponsored social movements

A state-sponsored social movement refers to a popular movement initiated and endorsed by the central leadership of the state and organized by the government’s apparatuses. Collective action events are peopled by citizens in their capacity as nonstate actors, but the main source of claims, leadership, and organizational resources is from within the state itself, and state actors, in their offici...

Transnational Law as an Excuse. How teaching law without the state makes legal education better

The purpose of this essay is to argue in favour of the idea that we should consider ‘transnational law’ as a legitimate part of legal education, including not only state but also non-state forms of normativity. The paper is structured as follows. First, I suggest that in the face of the existing conceptual controversy around the concept of ‘transnational law’ we should adopt a pragmatic perspec...