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Barbosa (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro; Denis Borges Barbosa
Advogados) and Ryan Benjamin Abbott (University of Surrey; University of
California, Los
Colombia: SIC Opens Consultation on Identity Verification Systems
On 8 September 2026, the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC) announced a public consultation to receive technical and legal input for the construction of guidelines, recommendations, and protocols on identity verification mechanisms and the processing of personal data in…
A Map Is Not a Memorial: Brazil’s Former DOPS and the Legal Content of Non-Recurrence
Twenty-six years after Minas Gerais enacted a law creating a Human Rights Memorial in the building that housed the state’s Department of Political and Social Order (DOPS), a political police body central to dictatorship-era repression, the site has still not…
Biocon Enters Ten-Year Pertuzumab Supply Contract in Brazil
On September 8, Biocon Limited (“Biocon”) announced that, in partnership with Bahiafarma, a Brazilian public pharmaceutical laboratory, and Bionovis, a Brazilian biotechnology company, it had secured a ten-year contract to supply Biocon’s pertuzumab biosimilar, BMAB 1500/PERT-IJS, in Brazil. Pertuzumab is…
Sevilla x Deportivo La Coruña odds – Guia de segurança para apostadores brasileiros
Métodos de pago recomendados para apostar en la Primera División de Namibia
Guía práctica para apostar en la Primera División de Namibia
¿Qué es la Primera División de Namibia y por qué vale la pena apostar?
La Primera División de Namibia es la máxima categoría del fútbol en ese país del sur…
Charlotte Biren Joins the Sabin Center as Climate Justice Fellow
Argentina strengthens oversight of hydrocarbon activities related to the Falkland Islands
In brief
On September 4, 2026, the Argentine Executive Branch issued Executive Order No. 868/2026 (the “Executive Order”), introducing new measures to strengthen the enforcement of Law No. 26,659 regarding hydrocarbon activities on the Argentine Continental Shelf. This law not…
Venezuela's Reopening: Investment, Infrastructure, and Technology Opportunities in a Rebuilding Latin America
As we enter the latter part of 2026, eight months after the removal of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela is presenting foreign investors with an opportunity that has not existed in a generation. Sanctions relief is expanding, new mining and energy legislation…
America’s Right to Kidnap
“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” (Thucydides)1)
On September 3, 2026, lawyers for Nicolás Maduro filed a motion asking a federal judge in Manhattan to dismiss the narco-terrorism indictment against him,…

