The rapid evolution of digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) has fundamentally altered how agreements are formed and executed. Automated contract formations occur when contracts are initiated, negotiated or concluded by software agents or systems with minimal or no human intervention. This presents challenges to traditional legal concepts such a

År 2006 myntade Professor Juliet Stumpf vid Lewis and Clark Law School i Oregon i USA begreppet ”crimmigration”. När hon gjorde det, döpte hon också en juridisk utveckling som startade i mitten av 1980-talet i USA. Begreppet är en sammanslagning av orden ”criminal” och ”immigration” vilket är passande eftersom begreppet beskriver och uppmärksammar sammanslagningen av straffrätt och migrationsrätt.In 2006, Professor Juliet Stumpf at the Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon coined the term “crimmigration”. In doing so, she gave a name to a legal development that had evolved in the United States since the mid-1980s. The term is a concatenation of ”criminal” and ”immigration”; suitable considering the legal field describes and highlights the merger of criminal and immigration law. To

Along with the rapid development of investment and trade in the context of economic globalisation, a number of legal issues, risks and disputes related to the essential security exception have gradually emerged in the field of international investment. Although contracting states have consciously agreed on essential security exception regulations in the international investment system, the provisi

Popular Abstract in English Sweden’s elderly population is growing, propelled by a continuous decline in old-age mortality, while coupled with a persistent replacement level fertility. This changing age structure increases the per worker cost of providing a given age-vector of per capita benefits, encompassing costs for pensions, health care, and all other type of old-age welfare services, which p

In the rapidly-evolving technological landscape of today, even established research and development (R&D) companies are struggling to keep pace with the demands of innovation. It creates difficulties for small-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with especially limited resources to maintain competitiveness within the market. This study argues that open innovation practices can provide a solution t

In recent years, negative emissions technologies (NETs) have gained attention as a strategy to tackle climate change. While the academic debate on NETs has been heated, international and national governance frameworks for regulating and incentivising the technologies largely remain unseen. In this thesis, I add to a growing debate concerning the governance of NETs with an empirical investigation o