30 November 2021
Can We Trust Cybersecurity in Arbitration?
Virtual hearings in international arbitration have received significant attention, both among scholars and practitioners, since the start of Covid-19 pandemic. Before the pandemic it…
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Announcements, activities and updates from the Swiss Chinese Law Association.
23 March 2021
Legal Tech is Shaking up Germany’s Consumer Rights Enforcement: What will new legislation mean for the sector?
Introduction After many years of obscurity, the legal tech market is now booming and is trying to take over parts of the legal market.…
1 March 2021
GDPR Today in the UK: Your guide to where to start
If you think Brexit means that the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) is no longer relevant you are entirely mistaken. Not…
17 November 2020
Discrimination is not just human: Why blaming people for prejudiced machines misses the point
The pandemic will leave us with a new perception of the benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies for decision making. All over the world…
17 November 2020
Can AI be held accountable for misleading impressions? Why solving digital gender bias needs humans
Following International Women's Day 2020, the French National Bar Council (CNB) gathered fifteen women lawyers, engineers, professors, researchers, programmers and entrepreneurs to seek solutions…
15 November 2020
Digital arbitration and litigation in China and Switzerland during the pandemic
Judicial officers have over the past year faced a high risk of contracting Covid‑19 in their exchange with lawyers and litigants. Accordingly, measures were…
15 November 2020
What this year has meant for new evidence rules on electronic evidence in China
How have court practices been reformed to meet significant social changes in the People's Republic of China?
10 November 2020
Blockchain and compliance information sharing: Are tax and data protection regulations ready for a distributed ledger?
Despite specific conditions in the financial sector, legal constraints for implementing a blockchain-based information sharing system could be overcome. Here's how.
10 November 2020
Using new technologies to battle Covid-19 in Switzerland
The right to privacy is strictly protected under Swiss law. How did this square with the country's Covid-19 track-and-trace system?
8 November 2020
China’s digital signatures: The virtue that Covid made a necessity
Under Chinese contract law the parties can conclude contracts in written, oral and other forms. But which specific rules apply for digital signatures?