Artificial intelligence: a challenge for jurists
Let’s start with a quick logic problem. “All law students are nearsighted. Some nearsighted people cannot tolerate contact lenses. Therefore, some law students cannot tolerate contact lenses.” Is this reasoning correct? You only have three seconds to answer the question. Time’s up. What’s your answer? With only three seconds to think about it, […]
An overprotective state. And an infantilized society.
The protective state, which looks after individuals “from cradle to grave”, the expression used at the time welfare systems were set up, has gradually extended its reach, by seeking, through a variety of protection mechanisms, to cover the different situations of need that may happen in an individual’s lifetime. The system offers a safeguard from […]
Taxation in the digital economy a new step by the OECD
As we have already discussed in this blog, the OECD, commissioned the task of implementing and promoting G20’s mandates, has focused its most recent work on taxation in the digital economy. This priority gave rise to a Policy Note on January 23, 2019, followed immediately by a public consultation document on February 13 this year. […]
Ensuring authorship of digital messages or how concerns for privacy led to digital signature (Exploring the digital frontier IV)
In my previous post I addressed the issue of how to ensure the integrity of content as ephemeral as that of a digital file, in terms of how it passes from the controlled safekeeping of the physical format in which the file is recorded to a purely “logical” system of file content identification resulting from […]
The court of justice of the European Union attempts to clarify the concept of tax avoidance
On February 26, 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down its judgments in the cases of T Danmark (ECLI:EU:C:2019:135) and N Luxembourg 1[1] (ECLI:EU:C:2019:134), which once again address the concept of abuse of rights as a legal basis for CJEU case law on tax avoidance, this time regarding the use […]
Working hours: limits and timekeeping
Historically, the main concern about work hours has been to cap the number of hours employees can work in a given period. On the back of past struggles to achieve an eight-hour workday, as a general rule, we now have legal limits on daily working hours. Barring certain notable exceptions (Japan), the majority of western […]
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