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Illegal Unreported Unregulated Fishing by Sri Lankan Fishermen: Law Implementation Mechanism and Fishers’ Attitudes on Compliance
(2017)
Abstract –This paper discusses the mechanism of the national legal framework for combatting IUU fishing and suggests strategic improvements based on fishers’ attitudes on compliance. A questionnaire was prepared and forwarded ...
The Implementation of Constitutional Ouster Clauses in Sri Lanka: A Sisyphean Task?
(2017)
Abstract –The phrase ‘A Sisyphean task’ originates in Greek mythology, where Sisyphus, king of Ephyra, was condemned to an eternity of repeatedly rolling a large boulder up a hill, only to have it roll back down each time ...
Triumvirate of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Developing Countries
(2017)
For decades, poorer countries have been used as dumping sites for unwanted wastes, particularly those classified as 'hazardous,’ by the developed industrialist countries. As a result, developing world has to tackle a myriad ...
Evolution of the Digital Copyright Industry: Are We Ready to Face Dynamic Changes?
(2017)
New digital technology enables people to access multiple forms of creative work regardless of the geographical location of origin. It expands the areas of human creativity from mere literary, scientific and artistic works; ...
To what extent the protection of Intellectual Property Rights are involved in ‘Bio Piracy’ in Sri Lanka
(2017)
Bio piracy could be identified as the process of claiming patents to restrict the general use of exploited plants and animal species for the purposes of bio prospect. This process is interrelated to the principle of ...
Privatization of Armed Conflicts and International Humanitarian Law
(2017)
From earlier times Private Military Companies (PMC) have become a popular phenomenon in armed conflicts around the world. However thus far, International law have averted from creating a comprehensive legal framework that ...
International Humanitarian Law and regulations to prevent the deaths and injuries of the civilians during an international armed conflict
(2017)
Armed forces in any country are expected to use special expertise knowledge and skills to save the dignity of the state and its citizens without being negligent or without having failure and inappropriate commanding orders. ...
Challenges relating to cross border flows of data
(2017)
Developments in technology are gradually changing the manner in which trade conducted throughout centuries. Trade of goods and services are gradually been replaced by trade of data across borders. Taking into consideration ...
Health Information Privacy and Right to Information A case study of India and Sri Lanka
(2017)
Privacy is a concept which is felt on a personal basis and accordingly it is difficult to define. Health information privacy is concerned with control, access and sharing of personal health information. Inherently personal ...
Sri Lankan Legal Version of Migrant Workers’ Rights: How It is and How It shall be
(2017)
‘Migrant workers’ are generally defined as people who leave their home country in search of employment. It is known that the largest source of income in Sri Lanka is foreign employment. Protection of the migrant becomes ...