RJA Maģistra darbi / RGSL Master's Thesis: Recent submissions
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Problems of user’s consent to the privacy policy
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The purpose of the thesis is to identify the problems of the acceptance of the privacy policies by users of the online services. The author proposes that there are two types of consent to the privacy policy which are given ... -
Exploitation of cryptocurrencies as a tool for tax evasion: technological and regulatory issues
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)Tax evasion is a crime that harms the national economies, society and indirectly affects all the residents of each state. Now that after a long time of international efforts the traditional tax evasion tools have eventually ... -
Residential tenancy as a viable substitute to home-ownership in Latvia
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)In light of the high rates of owner-occupancy and the view of residential tenancy being an inferior type of tenure, the Latvian government for the past decade has tried to implement a new regulation for residential tenancy ... -
Software source code escrow agreement and legal obstacles of its execution
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)Software source code escrow agreement is a relatively new occurrence, emerged together with the rise of software industry in 1970’s in the U.S. Taking into account the fact that business relationships between the software ... -
Protecting 3D service marks in the EU: the trademark registration dilemma
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The thesis aims to illuminate the ill-defined requirements and their theoretical applicability of registering a three-dimensional service mark consisting of a store layout in the wake of the Apple judgement in 2014, granting ... -
Compliance mechanism under Aarhus Convention - effective legal instrument for enforcement of international environmental law
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation ... -
“Sicherungsverwahrung” (preventive detention) in Germany under the scrutiny of the ECHR
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The societal challenge how to deal with offenders deemed habitually dangerous, requires to balance needs for security of the general public with the human rights of the potential extreme dangerous offender. The prediction ... -
Effects on accounting legislation by an EU-wide implementation of the IFRS for SMEs – the case of Germany
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)Harmonisation of companies’ financial reporting obligations is essential to economic decision-making in an international business environment. The degree of harmonisation for small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) is still ... -
Electronic identity verification: personal data protection challenges and risks
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)This work highlights the clash of GDPR, eIDAS Regulation and PSD2 Directive, as well as tackles challenges of implementation in practice, specifically the challenges of securing personal data whilst ensuring an electronic ... -
International consequences of the activation of Title III of the Helms Burton Act
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)In May 2019 the U.S. government activated the Title III of the Helms Burton Act. Title III grants U.S. nationals whose property was expropriated in Cuba after the 1959 revolution a private right of action against those who ... -
Electronic Communications Law legal issues and the effect of it towards freedom, security and justice in the Republic of Latvia
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)On 15 March 2006, the European Union adopted the Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC which regulated the Internet Service Providers storage of telecommunications data and could be used to fight serious crime in the European ... -
The protection of minority shareholders during delisting in Germany and in the U.K.
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)The thesis seeks to compare the protection of minority shareholders during delisting in Germany and in the UK. Delisting refers to a publicly traded company leaving the stock market. In order to compare the protection ... -
Unjustified sick-leave – impact and remedies
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)This paper deals with the problem of issuing unsubstantiated sick-leaves in Latvia. It adopts a comparative perspective contrasting legislation in Latvia and Spain regarding sick-leaves. It also looks at the document in ... -
Use of Article 106(2) TFEU in the context of liberalizing the Latvian market of roadworthiness testing services
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2019)The master’s thesis is about the potential use of the “escape clause” enshrined in Article 106(2) of the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) in a situation where an undertaking, which is granted with ... -
Use of site-blocking injunctions for the protection of trademark rights online
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2019)The author analysed site-blocking injunctions and their legal basis at three levels, namely at the international, regional (the EU in particular), and the national (Latvia in particular) level. It was sought how the legal ... -
The notion of reverse solicitation within the realm of financial services
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2019)The objective of this thesis is to analyse the scope and current restrictions of the reverse solicitation regime vis-à-vis European financial services law. Given the reliance on ambiguous terminology, ill-defined concepts ... -
Temporal effect of interpretation in CJEU judgments in C-326/15 DNB Banka and C-605/15 Aviva: implications on cost-sharing in Latvian financial and insurance services sectors
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2019)The main objective of the paper is to analyse the temporal effect of the interpretation of Article 132(1)(f) of the VAT Directive given by CJEU in Latvian case C-326/15 DNB Banka and Polish case C-605/15 Aviva with regard ... -
Impact of the shipping crisis and Basel III on ship finance
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2019)Banks loans historically have been the main and most important source of finance for the shipping industry. However, bank lending has reduced ever since the 2008 financial crisis. The Thesis finds the shipping crisis and ... -
Defensive patent strategies in the European pharmaceutical industry
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2019)For the purposes of keeping their commercial activities as effective and successful as possible, pharmaceutical companies can be eager to use different defensive strategies to protect their inventions and investments. ... -
Security token offering in EU: applicable law
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2019)The paper focuses on applicable law towards Security Token Offerings (STOs) in the European Union. The goal of the thesis is to analyse the legal framework in the EU with regards to STOs from the perspective of an organizer, ...