Assessing how AUKUS impacts global nuclear non-proliferation efforts and regional security dynamics
AUKUS nuclear submarine deal marks a pivotal shift in global security dynamics by challenging non-proliferation norms and American international legal policy.
Ukraine’s 2024 Military Operations in Russia’s Kursk Region: Lawful Self-Defense?
Ukraine’s surprise offensive into Russian territory is consistent with Article 51 of the U.N. Charter on self-defense.
Applying the Genocide Convention: 1951 “We Charge Genocide” Petition Revisited
In 1951, an American civil rights group presented a petition to the United Nations entitled “We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People.” They never received a response.
The DFC’s First 5 Years: Measuring the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation’s Progress in Accomplishing § 1412(c)
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is turning five years old and up for reauthorization in 2025. A simple analysis of its commitments in Fiscal Years 2020-2024 reveals a varied report card.
The Legality of an ECOWAS Intervention in Niger
On July 26, 2023, a military junta ousted the democratically elected President of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum, and took him hostage. This coup d’état is one the latest of many coups that have plagued multiple African nations over recent decades. Since 1950, almost half of...
Limitations to the Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act
Introduction In 2010, Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes fled his home in Los Angeles to evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents that were closing in to arrest him for immigration fraud. Sosa is a Guatemalan ex-commando who participated in the Dos Erres...
Survive To Drive? Andretti Global’s Fight to Join Formula One’s World Championship
In February this year, the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (“FIA”), international motorsport’s governing body, announced the organization was to open up the process to expand Formula One (“F1”)’s World Championship, allowing new teams to apply to join the...
China, ByteDance, and Data Privacy: How the Federal Trade Commission Could Regulate TikTok’s Collection and Usage of American Users’ Data at Home and Abroad
Background: TikTok’s Assertions of Data Privacy and U.S. Skepticism Since its meteoric rise in 2016, the social media platform known as ‘TikTok’ has gained popular appeal with its addictive algorithms and trends, garnering over 150 million American users since March...
A Nation of (Which) Immigrants? How Immigration Regimes in Canada and the United States Limit the Free Movement of Disabled People
A note on language: I use both ‘identify-first’ (disabled person) and ‘people-first’ (person with a disability) language throughout this article because English-speaking disability advocates use (and request that other people use) one or both of these. People with...
Conflict over Lamas: Using Tibetan Buddhism for Political Power in China
While the People’s Republic of China is in the midst of dealing with prominent external issues like Taiwan and the South China Sea, it has also been facing internal struggles over an issue that seems peculiar at first glance for an officially atheist nation: religion....