Traditionally, international tax law has predominantly concerned itself with the avoidance of double taxation. However, the increasing influence of globalization and digitalization on domestic tax systems has made improved international cooperation inevitable. At the crux of the matter is a...

“Digital sovereignty” has become a buzzword of the new European policies and rules on data governance. This discourse, however, is not entirely new. Already at the dawn of data protection laws in Europe, information sovereignty was one of the concerns that regulation of personal data flows...

The global revolution in communications technologies and services is breaking apart the historic relationship between the media and the state. That relationship, born in the early print era, was first framed by the territorial authority of sovereigns and later found new legitimacy in the rise of...

In this article, I argue that Louis Riel is a necessary invention for the production of Canadian sovereignty. The argument builds on the work of Giorgio Agamben. I see Riel as a Canadian version of homo sacer, “who may be killed but not sacrificed,” and thereby serves as the exception that...

The principle of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources (PSNR) is largely thought to be a counter-colonialism move to prevent great power exploitation of developing countries’ natural resources after independence, one rooted in the demand to decide on the use of their own resource for...

The contribution explores the role of economic globalisation in the identity formation (‘constitution’) of the European Union at the interface of law, democracy, and social justice. It examines how the spatial, subjective and material dimensions of European sovereignty interact with economic...

This research is concerned with the development of international law in so far as it relates to the historical background for the Peace of Westphalia, which itself is understood as a seminal event in the history of the growth of both the theoretical notion of sovereignty and, in its present...

Water resources in European legal systems have always been vested in sovereign power, regardless of their legal nature as goods vested in State property or as res communes omnium not subject to ownership. The common legal foundation of sovereign power over water resources departed once civil law...

A recent study by the University of Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis credits the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe and Foxwoods with creating 41,000 jobs and adding $1.2 billion to Connecticut's economy. This enormous operation is managed by an exceptionally experienced team of casino...