How do I... - Friday 02 June 2023

Legal information research

This zoom is a reminder, for non-lawyers, of the main principles governing the law, and more specifically commercial law: where the law is written, how it is applied, how it is accessed... This zoom does not cover legal, administrative and financial information for companies, for which resources such as Infogreffe, Orbis and Diane can be consulted.

Let's take a concrete case of legal information research for the launch of a new product in the alternative health sector, herbal medicine, in two European countries simultaneously: France and Greece.

Broadly speaking, there are several branches of law, present in different geographical areas.

• International law: rules governing...

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How do I... - Monday 06 March 2023

Identifying Experts

Consulting an expert related to your research topic or your project is a relevant and necessary step. It allows you to benefit from a critical analysis or even advice concerning your approach or your recommendations.

However, this approach remains complex regarding the dilution of this notion in the media and social sphere: not a broadcast, not a debate without "expert" interventions, and social platforms such as LinkedIn are also echoing it.

For those who would like to solicit an expert, the challenge now is not to deal with the scarcity of profiles but rather to have the tools to identify the right one and thus separate the wheat from the chaff.

What is an expert?

A multidisciplinary notion / definition by practice

First, identifying an expert is being able to...

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How do I... - Saturday 04 March 2023

The search for academic experts

After defining expertise and the key points to consider when looking for an expert in the Highlight on the keys to expertise, we will now focus on academic experts.

 

Nuancing the notion of expertise

Originally simple holders of “targeted competences [...] whose recognized practice allows them to enlighten judges on controversial cases", experts have become professionalized with the developments of the industrial society to take on an autonomy which seems to place them above other citizens. To such an extent that it is now necessary not only to distinguish the criteria of expertise in order to know how to evaluate it, but also to limit the recourse to expertise in order to preserve the "democratic process". The objectives of this Highlight are...

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How do I... - Friday 20 January 2023

Right of diffusion of the K-lab documents

Can I copy a document to distribute it (documents from K-lab, Moodle or the Internet)? How do I know if I am respecting copyright?

​Copyright can be seen as a "necessary evil" to encourage creation, before it can be appropriated by the public (F. Benhmaou, J. Farchy, Droit d’auteur et copyright, La découverte, 2007, p.112). It is also, in the broader context of intellectual property, an important economic issue. For example, copyright is particularly invoked by countries that are globally more exporters of content, but also by a few multinationals that concentrate the ownership of intellectual property rights on cultural content.

In this context, digital technology now makes copying much easier and more widespread, and therefore increases the risks of counterfeiting, in other words, of unauthorized copying. To summarize: "a new balance has...

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Our thematic selections - Friday 18 November 2022

Sources in geopolitics

Definition and reference material

Geopolitics have been defined as the study of geographical parameters that can influence power relationships in international relations. Having emerged as a science in the 19th century at the same time as economics, sociology and psychology, geopolitics has evolved during the 20th century, successively marked by imperialist confrontations, the Cold War and multilateralism. The discipline has recently been renewed with the relative fading of inter-state confrontations vis-à-vis other power relationships, whose fluctuations are linked to the accelerated global circulation of innovation and capital. According to Yves Lacoste, "Geopolitics means any power rivalry over or for territory".

The sources selected below are mainly in English or bilingual, in order to facilitate their...

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