Publicado en Legal Today el 14.05.2026 Joãozinho is a street child who sells candy to drivers in the chaotic traffic of a Brazilian city to survive. Far from school, he risks his life dodging cars and hanging small bags of sweets from the side mirrors of vehicles during the 90 seconds it takes for a traffic light to turn red. Like so many other impoverished Brazilian children who suffer the same ordeal, each bag has a piece of paper stapled to it with a QR code, “PIX,” so that any driver who...

Signed in January and February, the EU-Mercosur and US-Argentina agreements present different, yet complementary, characteristics. Their combination generates a circumstantial geopolitical controversy. In Argentina, for example, both agreements are currently vying for parliamentary ratification. While the Mercosur-EU agreement required 25 years of negotiations, the one signed between the US and Argentina took no more than a year and a half, defying the rule of Mercosur Council Decision 32/00,...

This year, the location of data centers will revolutionize geopolitics and regulatory compliance. The choice of site will catalyze various legal forces driven by the consumption of artificial intelligence. When data centers promise to be powered by renewable energy, the legal framework will become even more complex and open to debate. Multiple national interests are involved in the construction of a data center and are negotiated simultaneously across a range of legal disciplines such as real...