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The Legal and Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Europe: Challenges for Intellectual Property Law and Regulation in Musical Industry in Sweden 2024
This study investigates the ethical and legal implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in the Swedish music industry, emphasizing the issues it presents to copyright law. As AI technologies progressively enable the automated generation of musical content, enduring legal principles such as authorship, ownership, and ethical rights are being questioned in ways that conventional copyright framewo
The Legal Profession in Times of Change
This thesis investigates the legal professionals in Spain during the transitional period from the ancien régime to the liberal state, a period marked by institutional rupture, ideological conflict, and social reconfiguration. The study has the primary aim to understand how the legal professionals contributed, perceived, and resisted the extensive legal changes that took place approximately two cen
"It is in both the Social Services Act and the Convention. But we do not really do that in practice." – A qualitative socio-legal study on the realisation of children's rights within small municipalities with high child poverty rates
The Construction of Gendered Age Inequality: Structural Exclusion and Everyday Interactions among Young Lawyers in Suzhou's Big Law Firms
A Socio-Legal Family Life Course Analysis of the Legal Regulation of Unpaid Care Work in Austria
This thesis examines how unpaid care work within the familial context is legally regulated in Austria and to what extent these legal regulations reinforce the gendered labor of social reproduction. Drawing on Social Reproduction Theory (SRT) as both a theoretical framework and a critical methodology, the thesis analyzes legal texts, policy documents, court decisions, and official statistics. The a
The Constitutional Dilemma of Caring in Ireland: A Critical Discourse Analysis on the Political Framing of Unpaid Care Labour Against the Backdrop of the Fortieth Amendment of the Constitutional (Care) Bill 2023
For decades, Article 41.2 of the Irish Constitution has been coupled with gender specific and sexist language that positions women as carers within the home. On International Women’s Day of 2024, the Irish Government sought to amend this Article through a national referendum. This thesis aims to critically examine the political discourse that took place during the timeframe of this referendum and
A Swedish perspective on Chat Control 2.0: A socio-legal study of how Chat Control is perceived in a Swedish context
A voluntary EU law was implemented in 2022, which allowed communicative services to monitor all sent messages on their platforms in search of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online. Its proposed successor, infamously called ‘Chat Control 2.0’, expanded these ideas further, demanding communicative services to monitor all sent messages and stored emails in search of CSAM. As the discussions of th
Media and Public Opinion in Judicial Decisions. A Comparative Study Between the United States and France.
This thesis explores the extent to which media narratives and public opinion influence judicial decision-making, with a particular focus on the legal structural differences between the United States and France. It compares how jury trials in the U.S., which incorporate lay citizens susceptible to public discourse, contrast with judge-led proceedings in France, where decision-making is reserved for
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Crimes: Bureaucratic Structures and the Banality of Evil
This thesis explores how Hannah Arendt’s idea of the "banality of evil" can clarify human rights abuses within bureaucratic systems, concentrating on the Nazi Holocaust and the internment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China. By examining historical documents, official records, and accounts from survivors, the research investigates how administrative frameworks normalize and facilitate s
Dispenser inom Brandsvig vattenskyddsområde, Ängelholms kommun – Bekämpningsmedelsprovtagning för dricksvatten
Ett vattenskyddsområde vad är det egentligen? Jo, runt om i Sverige finns det idag områden med speciella förhållanden som är skapade för att skydda vårt grundvatten. Dessa områden har speciella regler som måste följas. Reglerna är enormt viktiga och reglerar bland annat lantbruken inom dessa områden gällande hantering och användning av kemikalier. Olika dispenser för användningen finns även inom oThis study investigates the relationship between the use of pesticides within Ängelholm Municipality’s largest water protection area and the levels of these substances in the drink-ing water. With a growing population and modern lifestyle, society has developed a de-pendency on continuous food production, which in turn has led to increased use of pesti-cides to ensure stable harvesters. This can h
What Gets in the Way of Trusting AI Chatbots in the HR practice ?
This study focuses on exploring the interplay of different trust types (cognitive, emotional and organizational) as HR professionals adopt and use AI chatbot to enhance their efficiency in their work. The aim is to understand their lived experience and interaction with AI chatbot and identify influencing factors and barriers in the early adoption that shapes human-AI trust within the organizationa
Determining CSR Character During a Time of Sustainability Fatigue
This study explores how employees make sense of sustainability efforts within a for-profit organization producing single-use products, focusing on the Scandinavian company Ecolette. Drawing on CSR-related literature, including Basu and Palazzo’s (2008) CSR Process Framework, micro-CSR, Social Identity Theory (SIT), organizational identity, and cynicism, the study provides a nuanced understanding o
The Togetherness Culture Decoupled
The purpose of our thesis is to examine means-ends decoupling from an employee-centric perspective, focusing on the interplay of organizational culture and identity, as well as leadership and sensemaking. Based on a qualitative case study of a merged organization, we explore how these dynamics unfold in practice. The main theoretical framework is means-ends decoupling as described by Bromley and P
Success in Motion: How Employees Navigate Internal Mobility
This study aimed to uncover employees’ individual experiences of role transitions within the same organization. We identified the need to enrich existing research on organizational socialization by focusing on internal mobility, which has received less attention compared to external mobility. The following research question was applied: How are employees socialized when moving into new roles withi
“The Innovation They Accept” - Exploring how power influences creative synthesis in organizations
This study explores how power influences the process of creative synthesis within organizational settings. While previous research has emphasized the value of diverse perspectives for creativity, less attention has been given to how power dynamics influences which ideas are heard, enacted, and legitimized. Drawing on Harvey’s (2014) model of creative synthesis and Fleming and Spicer’s (2014) four
Navigating the Aftermath of a Merger and Acquisition
Learning Balance: Understanding How Craftspeople Create a Dualistic Entrepreneurial-Craft Identity
The purpose of this study is to improve the understanding regarding how craftspeople experience managing their craft identity when faced with the issues pertaining economic survival for their company. Specifically we hope to understand how they experience and manage liminality. The study expands the literature on liminality (Beech, 2011; Ibarra & Obodaru, 2016) by extending it to the area of c
From a hobby to a craft business
Playing My Own Role: The Emotional Labor of Recruitment Consultants
In a profession that requires both human connection and sales performance, recruitment consultants must navigate a daily paradox: how to appear authentic while playing a role. This thesis explores how consultants in recruitment experience and manage emotional labour while attempting to remain genuine. Drawing insights from dramaturgical theory and emotional labour literature, we investigate how th