by Gabriella Igboko | Dec 5, 2022 | All, Comparative Law
As antiquated as it may sound, 84 countries currently have laws criminalizing blasphemy. The international community has long recognized the problematic nature of these laws; the ‘End Blasphemy Laws campaign,’ launched in the wake of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre,...
by Nur Evin Mercan | Dec 2, 2022 | All, Covid-19, Intellectual Property, patents, pharmaceuticals, World Trade Organization
Overview of Intellectual Property Rights Intellectual property rights protect the inventions of an individual’s creativity by protecting them under the general categories of copyright law and industrial property law. Copyright law focuses on the creative work of...
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 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...
