by Gabriella Igboko | Dec 5, 2022 | All, Comparative Law
As antiquated as it may sound, 84 countries currently have laws criminalizing blasphemy. The international community has long recognized the problematic nature of these laws; the ‘End Blasphemy Laws campaign,’ launched in the wake of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre,...
by Nur Evin Mercan | Dec 2, 2022 | All, Covid-19, Intellectual Property, patents, pharmaceuticals, World Trade Organization
Overview of Intellectual Property Rights Intellectual property rights protect the inventions of an individual’s creativity by protecting them under the general categories of copyright law and industrial property law. Copyright law focuses on the creative work of...
by Avery Morrow | Nov 30, 2022 | All, Europe, Germany, National Security, Russia
Introduction On September 26th, 2022, in the middle of the night, an unknown actor blew up the underwater Nord Stream 1 and 2 Pipelines in the Baltic Sea, causing one of the largest releases of methane gas ever. Investigations began immediately, but findings and...
by Samantha Hoover | Nov 29, 2022 | Comparative Law, Disability, Healthcare, Human Rights, Italy
This article will suggest that the U.S. should follow the legal framework of Italy’s involuntary commitment laws. Adding the “need for treatment” standard, coupled with increasing the number of verifications along the chain to commitment, could affect the rates of...
by Katherine Dolgenos | Nov 25, 2022 | All, Asia, China, Democracy
Lin Qiming, a Chinese state security agent, had several creative suggestions for how to destroy Yan Xiong’s nascent congressional campaign in the Democratic primary for New York’s 10th District. In Mr. Lin’s conversations with a private investigator (PI) he had hired...
by Drew Weisberg | Nov 21, 2022 | All
Introduction & Background Against the Biden administration’s opposition, the Supreme Court agreed in October to hear an appeal from the Second Circuit by a Turkish state-owned bank, Halkbank, on whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA”) protects...
by Jonathan Haskin | Nov 16, 2022 | All, Brazil
On January 25th, 2019, a dam built to support the Córrego de Feijão iron ore mine collapsed. Built in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais to store a slurry of byproducts from the process of separating iron from the surrounding mineral deposits, the dam’s collapse...
by Gabrielle Hangos | Nov 14, 2022 | All, European Union, Internet Law, Technology
Despite all the wonders that technology has increasingly brought – connecting people on the other side of the world throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, advancing medicine, and increasing productivity, just to name a few – there exists today, fairly little regulation of...
by Alec Goodrich | Nov 11, 2022 | Arbitration, China, Cybersecurity, Financial, Intellectual Property, Internet Law, National Security, North America, Trade, U.S. Foreign Policy
International intellectual property (IIP) theft occurs when foreign actors infringe upon, or outright steal, intellectual property (IP) owned by a domestic entity. IIP theft takes many forms, from the manufacture and export of counterfeit Birkin bags to sophisticated...
by Austin Newman | Nov 7, 2022 | All, Climate Change, Environment, Europe, European Union, Germany, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom
After decades of investing in renewable energy sectors while decreasing investment in fossil fuels and relying on Russian gas instead, the European Union now finds itself in an energy crisis. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Europe responded by banning the...
