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....
The Gap in United States Extraterritorial Law: Addressing the Oversight in Protecting Adults from Sexual Exploitation Abroad
Introduction Extraterritorial jurisdiction refers to the legal authority of a state or country to exercise its legal powers beyond its sovereign territory. This gives a nation the legal authority to address certain actions or offenses occurring outside its territorial...
Israel Judicial Crisis: An Attempt to Undermine the Middle East’s Only Democracy
Introduction In early 2023, Israel’s longest-serving Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi), announced a series of reforms that functionally remove authority from the judiciary and eliminate the Supreme Court’s powers. The current government, which is the most...
Freedom of Assembly in France
On April 15th, President Macron signed into law his unpopular reform act increasing the state pension age from 62 to 64. Since January, millions have mobilized in demonstrations across France to denounce the reform. However, civil unrest exploded in late March after...
Contextualizing the BRICS Nations’ Quest to Establish a New Global Reserve Currency
Introduction The concept of “de-dollarization” has become an increasingly topical issue as countries seek to decrease their dependence on the U.S. dollar as the world’s primary reserve currency. Should de-dollarization occur, there are many countries that would like...