by Sofia Polishchuk | Jan 1, 2025 | Armed Conflict, Russia, Self-Defense, Ukraine
I. Introduction After two and a half years of full-scale war, Ukrainian forces launched a surprise attack across the Russia-Ukraine border, capturing significant portions of territory in Russia’s Kursk region. Under the law of jus ad bellum, Ukraine’s military...
by Eleni Christine Papaiacovou-Lane | Dec 31, 2024 | Genocide, Human Rights, United Nations, United States
In 1951, William L. Patterson, Executive Secretary to the Civil Rights Congress, traveled to Paris with some of his colleagues to present a petition to the United Nations (UN) entitled “We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People.”...
by Alex Fulling | Dec 31, 2024 | Development, Finance, U.S. Foreign Policy
In January of 2020, the new U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) opened for business following the passage of its authorizing legislation, the BUILD Act, in October of 2018. On the eve of both its fifth birthday and the return of the administration...
by Austin Newman | Nov 27, 2023 | Armed Intervention, Democracy, ECOWAS
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...
by Audrey Stone | Nov 27, 2023 | Executive Power, Human Rights, Jurisdiction, War Crimes
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...
by John Tuley | Nov 27, 2023 | Sports, Technology
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...
by Andrew Allen | Oct 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Elizabeth Schroeder | Oct 30, 2023 | immigration
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...
by Tyler Capps | Oct 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
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....
by David Brown | Oct 25, 2023 | Jurisdiction
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...
