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24/01/2022

Note: This is the third and final post of a three-part series on inquisitorial procedure and its lessons for the U.S. criminal justice system. The first post explained the importance of making the results of the investigation fully available to the defense counsel and to the judge, as a check on pro...

24/01/2022

China is set to host the Winter Olympics, beginning on February 3, 2021. The United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, as well as Denmark, Estonia, and Lithuania announced a diplomatic boycott of the games. These countries will not send government officials to the games, though their athlete...

20/01/2022

At the end of World War II, following the atrocities of the Holocaust, the international community vowed to “never again” allow the crime of genocide to be perpetrated. Since then, nearly every country in the world has ratified the Genocide Convention, which was adopted in 1948 “in order to li...

08/12/2021

Introduction Countries around the world have varying definitions of harmful online content, and different models for regulating those harms. The United States (US) and China occupy opposite ends of the spectrum of online content regulation, with most other countries or entities, e.g.—India, the Eu...

02/12/2021

Treaty Law In 2015, the Paris Agreement entered into force. The Agreement is a hybrid of legally binding provisions, including procedural commitments, and non-binding provisions. The Parties are obligated to prepare, communicate, and maintain a nationally determined contribution (NDCs), and submit i...

23/11/2021

If you faced a charging rhinoceros, what would you do? I like to think I would turn and run, but more than likely I’d stand paralyzed, waiting for the inevitable. Evergrande Group is just such a gray rhino. The Chinese mega-corporation is the second-largest property developer in the country and th...

23/11/2021

The recent U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan followed by the Taliban’s swift return as Afghanistan’s reigning regime has garnered fear and speculation within the international community, particularly among western democracies and human rights organizations, about the future of the country. Amidst...

18/11/2021

Note: This is the second post of a three-part series on inquisitorial procedure and its lessons for the U.S. criminal justice system. The first post explained the importance of making the results of the investigation fully available to the defense counsel and to the judge, as a check on prosecutoria...

17/11/2021

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) is coming to a close in Glasgow, Scotland. Foreign dignitaries and climate change activists have made speeches, suggested and pledged goals, and discussed the future of living on Earth in the face of substantial environmental change. However, seve...

15/11/2021

Debates about the future of healthcare within the United States have carried on for decades. With no clear solution for skyrocketing costs, and a substantial percentage of the population left completely uninsured, the massive costs associated with certain treatments leave many with insurmountable de...

12/11/2021

Changing Demographic Trends in South Korea Over the past sixty years, South Korea has experienced remarkable growth in key development indicators like life expectancy, gross domestic product (GDP), GDP per capita, and literacy. Entering the third decade of this century, however, one key statistic is...

10/11/2021

In July 2008, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese President. The arrest warrant accused him of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, despite Sudan not being a party to the Rome Statute and the ICC. Already, there had been incr...

10/11/2021

Pictured: Angel Island, where the question of “How to actually implement the Chinese Exclusion Act?” was answered.  “The surge in violence against Asian-Americans is a reminder that America’s present reality reflects its exclusionary past.” – Michael Luo In 1890, Hong Yen Chang, Columbi...

09/11/2021

Who are the UN Peacekeepers?  U.N. Peacekeepers are an enforcement mechanism of the United Nations, and their missions are composed of troops donated by member states. The U.N. peacekeepers duties are to: protect civilians, prevent conflicts, build rule of law and security institutions, promote hum...

06/11/2021

In the new age of digital threats and extensive use of computers for hacking and other crimes, governments are facing the brutal reality that preventing crime and catching criminals is more complex than ever. Common crimes and tools used by criminals via the Internet include phishing, identity theft...

05/11/2021

Over five years have passed since the Permanent Court of Arbitration issued a binding decision that China had breached its obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). China’s offenses included fishing within the Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), dama...

31/10/2021

Introduction Mass consumption is on the rise and the fashion industry is no exception. Worldwide 80 billion pieces of clothing are consumed every year, a 400% increase from only twenty years ago. However, approximately 85% of these textiles end up in a landfill every year. This is an indicator of th...

26/10/2021

From a U.S. craft store chain to the British Museum, many pieces proudly displayed in the world’s museums have gotten there through illegal means. Today, several countries whose cultural artifacts have been pillaged, stolen, or smuggled are now demanding them back. The Loot In September of this ye...

26/10/2021

Western Sahara remains an anomaly in the field of international law. In the eyes of the United Nations, it is a Non-Self Governing Territory with no administering power. However, even after an international promise of independence from colonization, Western Sahara is both an occupied and independent...

22/10/2021

Note: This is the first post of a three-part series on inquisitorial procedure and its lessons for the U.S. criminal justice system. Part I: The Investigative File A major weakness of the U.S. adversarial criminal system is that often no one but the prosecutor and law enforcement has access to the e...

22/10/2021

Social media has brought the entire world to our fingertips. It’s easier than ever to find like-minded individuals. Most of us trust that there is a human on the other end of that Tweet or Facebook post we see on our feed. However, some people believe that the internet actually “died” in 2016 ...

20/10/2021

Violence against women (VAW) is a worldwide problem, a pandemic of its own.  COVID-19, lockdowns, limited access to services, increased care burden, and economic decline have increased the exposure of women to abusive relationships and known risk factors. According to TIME, the American Journal of ...

13/10/2021

On June 23, 2016, the United Kingdom (UK) left the European Union (EU). With this exit, or Brexit, the citizens of the UK expected many things to change, including immigration. One thing that these Brexiters failed to account for was the dramatic impact that Brexit would have on the immigration stat...

11/10/2021

Introduction For decades, people around the world have looked up at the stars and thought about the brave women and men who travelled beyond the bounds of earth’s gravity in the name of science and exploration. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Valentina Tereshkova, Sally Ride, Yuri Gagarin—just to n...

06/10/2021

Can High Seas Intelligence Missions Be Counteracted?

01/10/2021

The United Nations (UN) may rightfully be described as a universal and global international organization, with comprehensive subject-matter and geographic competency. Nevertheless, the scope of its activities even goes beyond the Member States’ territories. In fact, it goes beyond any states terri...

27/09/2021

Filipinos have long been a mainstay of the immigrant population in the United States, with the Republic of the Philippines itself perpetuating a prominent culture of migration, maintaining 2.2 million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) across the world as of 2019.  Like so many societal hardships, the...

20/09/2021

In the contemporary world, we have grown used to several features of our legal systems. Many of these we take for granted; for example, the legal equality of citizens, the state’s monopoly on violence, and legal homogeneity—the existence of a single legal system within a territorial jurisdiction...

17/09/2021

  Canada’s Indian Residential School Survivors and Family Crisis Line is available 24 hours a day at                        1-866-925-4419. “For over a century, the central goals of Canada’s Aboriginal policy were to eliminate Aboriginal governments; ignore Aboriginal rights; ...

13/09/2021

Celebrated Iran expert and political scientist Kaveh Afrasiabi was arrested at his home in Watertown, Massachusetts, on January 18, 2021. Law enforcement seized computers, a USB flash drive, CDs, DVDs, videotapes, physical documents in both Farsi and English, and financial and identification documen...

06/09/2021

When US troops began leaving Afghanistan after 20 years of military involvement, questions emerged about what the withdrawal would mean for stability and security in the region. One principal question was: What happens to the thousands of Afghan citizens who risked their own safety and the safety of...

30/08/2021

Background             The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) has a long history of issues with nuclear compliance and other nuclear-capable nations. In the early 1990s, President Kim Il Sung had two main missions for his reign: (1) expel the United States from South Ko...

19/08/2021

The following is an excerpt from an article that appears at The Diplomat magazine. To read the full article, “Afghanistan’s Failed Constitution,” please visit The Diplomat here.  Following the successful efforts in 2001 of a United States-led international coalition in alliance with loca...

09/08/2021

In the night of July 7, 2021 several assailants entered the home of Haitian President Jovenel Moise and assassinated him, apparently without meeting resistance by his guards. Within days of the shooting, several suspects were killed and others arrested, while some allegedly managed to flee the count...

02/08/2021

On June 20, 2020, the People’s Republic of China inserted strict new national security provisions into Hong Kong’s Basic Law. The amendments grant broad authority to security officials in the semi-autonomous region and outlaw many forms of speech and assembly. Over a year after the National Secu...

26/07/2021

When President Biden announced the withdrawal of United States military forces from Afghanistan in April, it didn’t take long for lawmakers and immigration experts to stress that as American troops were drawn down, Afghan nationals who were given the promise of qualifying for a Special Immigration...

21/07/2021

The world has been reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic and as we begin a return to normalcy, we are just beginning to see the rippling effects in other sectors. The United Nations announced that 2020 saw 19,300 children were victims of “grave violations.” Grave violations, as defined by the U.N.,...

19/07/2021

In June 2021, British trade minister Liz Truss announced that the United Kingdom would begin virtual talks to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). Joining the CPTPP would deepen the UK’s trade ties in the Asia-Pacific region and set the stage for ...

12/07/2021

There are an estimated 164 million migrant workers in the world today, approximately 8.5 million of them women, with roughly 19 percent of these women working in the Arab region.  Despite these high numbers, due to the private nature of the work causing poor monitoring, migrant domestic workers are...

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