Nomosphone: A Global Law Podcast

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Nomosphone is a podcast series about current global legal issues. From migration to international crime, climate change to global trade, this podcast covers it all. Every few weeks we will release a new episode on a contemporary legal issue that you should know about. Nomosphone is produced by students in Tilburg Law School's Global Law Programme. We thank Tilburg Law School for supporting this podcast. To learn more about Tilburg's Global Law Progamme, visit our website below. www.nomosphone.com

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Episodes

Episode 014: Climate Change, Future Generations & the Rights of Amazonia

In 2018, the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia made a landmark ruling for the future of our planet. A group of youth plaintiffs came together from across Colombia to file a claim against the Colombian government and several corporations operating in Amazonia. Despite national and international law obligations, the government and corporations failed to reduce deforestation in Amazonia and emissions of greenhouse gases. These failures, which perpetuated climate change, threatened the plaintiffs...

Mar 14, 2019•33 min

Episode 013: Time To Assign Rights To Our Furry Friends

Throughout history, law has been reactive to scientific developments and new social movements. Could the next monumental shift be the transformation of a nonhuman animal from a mere thing with no rights to a person with legal protections? And should it? Various judicial systems indeed show increasing receptiveness to arguments maintaining that at least some animals should become the bearers of such fundamental rights as bodily liberty and bodily integrity. The movement is spurred by a growing co...

Dec 06, 2018•42 min

Episode 012: Blockchain - Beyond Cryptocurrency

In recent years, blockchain has become the new technology that everyone is talking about. In this episode, we look at the potential of the blockchain technology beyond its wide-known uses as a novel form of virtual currency, by focusing on its ability to create an innovative form of governance. Through examples such as government elections and shareholder voting, we examine the way in which blockchain can foster democratic participation, while remaining wary of its possible drawbacks. In 2008, S...

Nov 19, 2018•33 min

Episode 011: Climate change driving displacement & deterritorialization: The current legal framework

What are the options for people who are forced to move due to floods, droughts, heat waves, melting ice and extreme storms? What happens when entire States, such as low-lying islands in the Pacific, lose territory due to these and other impacts of climate change? The communities most impacted are increasingly being forced to flee within and across national borders. However, they are not protected under most national immigration schemes; nor do they qualify as refugees under international law. Tw...

May 28, 2018•41 min

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