by Avery Morrow | Nov 30, 2022 | All, Europe, Germany, National Security, Russia
Introduction On September 26th, 2022, in the middle of the night, an unknown actor blew up the underwater Nord Stream 1 and 2 Pipelines in the Baltic Sea, causing one of the largest releases of methane gas ever. Investigations began immediately, but findings and...
by Samantha Hoover | Nov 29, 2022 | Comparative Law, Disability, Healthcare, Human Rights, Italy
This article will suggest that the U.S. should follow the legal framework of Italy’s involuntary commitment laws. Adding the “need for treatment” standard, coupled with increasing the number of verifications along the chain to commitment, could affect the rates of...
by Katherine Dolgenos | Nov 25, 2022 | All, Asia, China, Democracy
Lin Qiming, a Chinese state security agent, had several creative suggestions for how to destroy Yan Xiong’s nascent congressional campaign in the Democratic primary for New York’s 10th District. In Mr. Lin’s conversations with a private investigator (PI) he had hired...
by Drew Weisberg | Nov 21, 2022 | All
Introduction & Background Against the Biden administration’s opposition, the Supreme Court agreed in October to hear an appeal from the Second Circuit by a Turkish state-owned bank, Halkbank, on whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA”) protects...
by Jonathan Haskin | Nov 16, 2022 | All, Brazil
On January 25th, 2019, a dam built to support the Córrego de Feijão iron ore mine collapsed. Built in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais to store a slurry of byproducts from the process of separating iron from the surrounding mineral deposits, the dam’s collapse...
