Questions tagged [international]
For questions about the interaction of two or more sovereign states, including agreements and laws between them, and disputes of jurisdiction for civil or criminal matters.
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Can I be arrested in my country's embassy abroad?
I am a Syrian refugee who escaped a war!
In my country I am considered to have broken the law by doing this. I live in Romania and need to visit the embassy to renew my Syrian passport, as they ...
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International standards on prisoners' right to vote
Are there any international standards or declarations/conventions on prisoners' right to vote?
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Does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights override the United States Constitution?
Does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights override the United States Constitution when it comes to the rights of civilians?
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What is the legal basis of diplomatic immunity?
I'm guessing there was an intentional convention/treaty on universal diplomatic protocols (is it one of the Vienna conventions?) But suppose one sued or prosecuted a diplomat in a court of the host ...
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Did they not require any kind of passport or identity when traveling between countries before the year 1914?
During World War I, European governments introduced border passport requirements for security reasons, and to control the emigration of people with useful skills. These controls remained in place ...
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Does legality of an computerized action depend on user location or computer location?
Now of days it's quite easy to have a computer in a completely different part of the world from where I'm located that I'm working on. This makes me wonder how 'criminality' is defined if the laws of ...
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Is it ever legally beneficial for a third party to use symbols indicating intellectual property (©, ℗, ®, ™, ℠)?
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This question on Academia SE asks whether one should append a trademark symbol to trademarked software in academical writing, e.g. “Mathematica®”. In the answers and comments (e.g., here), ...
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Can online business in one country deny access via terms of service to entities in another country?
Can an American company state in their terms of service that if an entity is from a designated country they are not allowed to use the service?
In other words would that be a legal and enforceable ...
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If an AirBnB host doesn't disclose that it's not allowed, in which countries does a landlord have direct recourse against the *guest*?
So this question stems from an article on cbc, describing how it can happen that an AirBnB host rents an apartment in a block where short term rentals are forbidden. The article states that in some ...
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Excluding all people from the EU from my blog - is this allowed?
There's a new law from the European Union I simply cannot comply with (GDPR).
Its way to complex, not even big companies can comply with it. I also don't know what google does with the data from my ...
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Counterfeit vs. pirated goods
What is the difference if any between pirated, contraband and counterfeit goods?
"Smugglers usually smuggle contraband into and out of a country for commercial gain"
a shipping line can as well be ...
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What makes a court able to assert jurisdiction over another sovereign state?
I just read this news where a US federal judge ordered North Korea to pay $500 million:
Judge Howell ordered the payment, and wrote: "North Korea is liable
for the torture, hostage taking, and ...
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Why don't US prosecutors press for imprisonment for crime in the banking industry?
In this article by The Guardian published two days ago they report:
RBS bankers joked about destroying the US housing market after making millions by trading loans that staff described as "total ...
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For HIPAA, Does US Patient Data Have To Stay On US Servers?
For an application that stores US patient data, does HIPAA require that US data stays on US servers?
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What happens if a murder occurs in space?
Let's say that there's a joint mission to the International Space Station, composed of American and British astronauts.
They get along well for the first few days, but tensions grow, and eventually ...
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