Central Bank Digital Currencies: Fad or Forever?
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are so hot right now. Nigeria’s launched in October. India’s launches in April. China, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, and Jamaica are testing small amounts of CBDC. More still are in the research and development phase, such...
Violence Against Women: Destroying Myths
Overview Violence against women is a world-wide problem. It is not regional and it does not discriminate. It affects women of all cultures and religions. Even though statistics might be lower in Europe and The Americas, it is mostly due to them being more developed...
The Challenges of Feminizing Law: Gender Inequality in the United Kingdom’s Legal Industry
The feminization of the legal profession is a global trend, supported by the significant progress internationally in percentages of women graduating law school classes and joining law firms in the 2000s. The rate of this progress varies based on culture and...
The Inquisitorial Advantage in Criminal Procedure, Part III: Adjudicating Pleas
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...
The Geopolitics of Olympic Boycotts
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...
A Modern Genocide?
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...
Online Content Regulation: An International Comparison
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...
International Efforts in Reducing Carbon Emissions
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...
The Uncertain Future of Women and Minorities under the Current Taliban Regime
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...
The Evergrande Liquidity Crisis
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...