In the October edition of The Essentials, we summarize key provisions of California employment laws that took effect in 2024 and those that will take effect in 2025. Where our team previously published alerts on a particular law, we link those alerts below. AB-594: State Prosecution for California Labor Code (Labor […]

Global law firm K&L Gates LLP represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors through trial in a bankruptcy case brought against iCap, a real estate investment firm. A judge who oversaw the trial in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Washington found that iCap operated as a […]

What Are Our Indigenous Youth Fellows Up To? Country Global Diana Fri, 10/25/2024 – 15:07 Issues None Program 5 Main Image Sabou Doumbia (Bambara), Mali  Sabou is a computer scientist with a degree from the Institute of Applied Science and Technology in Bamako, Mali. In addition to her expertise in […]

Anyone interested in unsolved murders and disappearances will find much to study in Sri Lanka. Fifteen to twenty years ago, the country made global headlines, not only for the government’s military offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) guerrillas but also for the numerous murders of journalists. The […]

Antitrust and Competition The General Court Upholds Commission’s Findings on Abusive Predatory Pricing On 18 September 2024, the General Court of the European Union (General Court) largely upheld the fine imposed by the European Commission (Commission) finding that a global tech company had engaged in predatory pricing of its mobile […]

Puriyninchik Publishing House Is Making Books Accessible in Quechua  Country Peru agnes Thu, 10/24/2024 – 09:32 Issues Languages and Cultures Program 5 Main Image By Verónica Aguilar (Mixtec, CS Staff) Yesenia Montes, from the Puriyninchik Collective which runs a library and an independent publishing house, tells us in an interview […]

On 24 September 2024, the G7 released updated guidance on the prevention of evasion of export controls and sanctions imposed on Russia. The aim of the guidance is to “assist industry in identifying Russian evasion practices and complying with Global Export Control Coalition controls, thereby protecting their technology from misappropriation, […]

Indigenous Peoples Principles and Protocols for Just Transition Country Global agnes Wed, 10/23/2024 – 12:30 Issues Human Rights Program 5 Main Image Russian | Español | Français | Português      INTRODUCTION  From October 8-10, 2024, 95 Indigenous Peoples’ representatives from all seven socio-cultural regions met in Geneva, Switzerland, for the Indigenous […]