Broad Language, Uneven Enforcement: Why the Foreign Agents Registration Act Needs to be Reformed
In 1938, President Roosevelt signed the Foreign Agents Registration Act (“FARA” or “the Act) in order to “expose foreign influence in American politics, with a specific focus on identifying and making a public record of attempts to spread propaganda and foreign...
Women’s Land Rights: A Powerful Tool for Development
Image Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woman_watering_crops,_Tanzania.jpg https://www.usaid.gov/tanzania/our-work Land is often the most important asset for households and individuals in the developing world, the majority of whom rely on...
Breaking Barriers: Iranian Women Fight For Their Rights In Recent Protests
Over the last three weeks, protests have erupted across Iran in response to the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini. Mahsa (Jina) Amini was a 22-year-old woman from Kurdistan who was arrested by the morality police, a special sect of law enforcement, in Tehran for “immodest...
International Derivatives Contracts in 2022
The international financial system is by no means unified. Currencies, securities, assets, cryptos, and commodities have no centralized exchange and no single regulator. Instead, the institutions of modern international finance are knit together with derivatives:...
The ICJ’s Ability to Hold Russia Accountable for Invading Ukraine
On March 16, 2022 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Russia to immediately suspend military operations in Ukraine. This order raises two very important questions for international law and policy: First, what authority does the ICJ have in ordering a...
Managing Your Own Identity: The European Union’s Upcoming Biometric Passport
The European Union is in the process of creating the European Digital Identity: a biometric passport, or a central location for all identifying information. The purpose behind the passport is to enable Europeans to easily identify themselves and share selected...
The Child’s Right Act vs. Sharia Law: Girl-child Marriage In Nigeria
Child marriage is a human rights violation with many facets and consequences; it is a practice that disproportionately affects girls, stripping them of their agency to make decisions, inhibiting their education, and exposing them to violence and abuse. Countries have...
Antitrust Regulations and Their Impacts on International Relations and Law
In early March of 2020, a South Korean national who worked for German automotive company, Continental, was extradited to the United States. He pleaded guilty for his involvement in an international market allocation and bid-rigging conspiracy involving the sale of...
The 2022 Russia Sanctions Regime
On February 21, 2022, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that the Russian Federation would recognize the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, two Russia-backed separatist regions of Ukraine, as independent sovereign states. On February...
Russia’s Wartime Censorship Laws – A Violation of Russians’ Human Rights
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Putin has struggled to keep his own people from joining the rest of the world in protesting the war. Following demonstrations, Putin heightened censorship of news media and journalists in Russia. Stifling dissent is a way for Putin to...