RJA Maģistra darbi / RGSL Master's Thesis: Recent submissions
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Air passenger rights in European Union under Regulation 261/2004
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)This research will focus on air passenger rights in European Union. The first section will consist of exploring main legislations with respect of air carrier liability, passenger rights and international carriage by air. ... -
Issues of residential property division in Latvia: impact of Residential Property Law amendments on residential project development in several phases
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)The Amendments to the Law on Residential Property, effective from 13 July 2017, have revised the Law on Residential Property, which has been in force since 1 January 2011. The new regulation was aimed to determine clear ... -
Did floating rate notes stopped floating? An investigation on legal impacts of negative interest rates on bond agreements and their trade
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)Most securities pay a coupon as a form of interest from the borrower to the lender. While interest rates in the Euro Area are at historical low levels, as a common market practice, fixed income bonds can yield negatively ... -
Austrian citizenship for South Tyrol: Another Hungarian-Slovak tit-for-tat?
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)The subject of this thesis is the question, whether Austria can provide South Tyrol or, more specifically, individual South Tyroleans with the Austrian citizenship under the terms of public International Law. The relevance ... -
Calculating intellectual property damages in the European Union
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2017)Author’s thesis is focusing on the material and economical approaches to intellectual property – how it is evaluated, what are intellectual property damages and, most importantly, how they are determined and calculated. Author ... -
Accountability of mercenaries and private military and security contractors in the existing international legal framework
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2017)The thesis analyse the insufficiencies in international legal norms with regard to the PMCs as well as discusses the difficulties of application of certain norms. Afterwards several alternatives are proposed in order to ... -
EU anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing measures in context of electronic money institutions and payment processors
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)The purpose of the given research would be to analyze the current EU AML / CTF regime with regard to electronic money institutions and payment providers, detect the scope of legal norms and regulations, obliging them, ... -
Cryptocurrency regulation: tendencies and challenges in the European Union
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)While the popularity of cryptocurrencies is growing, the regulation of cryptocurrencies still remains largely underdeveloped body of law. In order to understand the ongoing debate of cryptocurrency regulation, it is crucial ... -
Capacity of existing trade mark protection in relation to infringements by 3D printing technologies in the EU
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)The masters thesis will research and analyze the possible clashes between the current regulation of EU trade mark law and virtual reality of 3D printing in the context of the most common infringements by the main actors ... -
Economic sanctions in international arbitration
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)Historically, economic sanctions, as options of foreign policy, are aimed on changing the behavior of the target state and its regime. In a very extreme situation, economic sanctions can be used in a comprehensive manner, ... -
Suitability of Trade Secrets Directive for the protection of patentable information from perspective of a startup company
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)This research paper studies suitability of newly adopted European Parliament and the Council Directive no. 2016/943 - Trade Secrets Directive for protection of potentially patentable information from a startup company ... -
The legal consequences of the August 2008 Russian-Georgian military conflict: how does the "creeping occupation" carried out by Russia violate Georgia's sovereignty and the Georgian people’s rights?
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2017)The present thesis illustrates how the "creeping occupation" violates Georgia’s territorial integrity and fundamental human rights based on the historical, as well as the 2008 and subsequent developments. Stemming from the ... -
Counter-terrorism within the European Union: data surveillance measures
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)The purpose of this thesis is to analyse why Passenger Name Record data has been so strongly and rigoriously criticized by the European Union Data Protection Authorities. In order to reach the aim, European Union legislation ... -
The problem of statelessness in Cambodia
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)Statelessness has become an issue of concern to the international community since after the World War I. An estimated 15 million people are refused citizenship around the world. Statelessness occurs due to many reasons, ... -
Evidence in international arbitration: with case-study of arbitration law of Latvia
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)Within globalization and rapid technological process, more and more merchants involve in international transactions and thus more and more international disputes arise. Arbitration is one of dispute settlement mechanisms. ... -
GM crops: a safe link in the food supply chain? Has the science behind the EU law on GM crops failed to address the relevant risks and harms that cultivation and consumption of such crops pose to the environment and human health?
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)The purpose of this paper is to make an analysis on whether the existing EU legislation sufficiently covers all aspects related to cultivation and consumption of genetically modified crops, and, if not, to propose possible ... -
Populist parties in Europe, from propaganda to legal reforms: whether freedoms of expression, association and religion are under threat?
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)The effect of the recent populist legislative tendencies results in sharpening new and old tensions between national and international legal orders and, in the European Union scenario, in particular, the most alarming ... -
Real estate crowdfunding: potential in Latvia
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2017)Currently the economic environment is changing rapidly. The millennium’s development phase was followed by global financial crisis, which has changed the rules of game for all financial players and made others’ think outside ... -
The applicable international instruments and mechanisms for the protection of human rights defenders in Cambodia
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)The human rights defenders' situation in Cambodia is still extremely concerning; human rights defenders (HRDs) frequently face physical attacks, legal harassment, intimidation, arbitrary arrests, torture, and security ... -
Anti-money laundering: civil liability of banks vis-a-vis their customers
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)In this master’s thesis the nearly unexamined topic of the civil liability of banks vis-à-vis their customers for improper application of anti-money laundering measures in the Latvian perspective is explored. The findings ...