by Gabrielle Hangos | Feb 28, 2023 | Egypt, Human Rights
Introduction In September 2021, the Egyptian government launched the National Human Rights Strategy (“NHRS”) as a means of addressing ongoing human rights issues in the country. Although Egypt’s government touted these reform measures, data and reports show that...
by Ben Gould | Feb 28, 2023 | Comparative Law, European Union
Introduction In 2019, Jane Slater found out that her (now-ex) boyfriend was cheating, after noticing repeated spikes in his Fitbit heart rate data at 4 a.m. whenever he was not home. In 2020, a civilian employee at Fort Bragg used the Army Installation’s official...
by Evan Conner | Feb 13, 2023 | China
Abstract: The Chinese Communist Party has long tightly controlled private sector enterprises. In the past year, that control has taken a new form: board seats. Over the past several months, China has pivoted from regulating tech companies through fines and...
by Dahlia Mohamed | Feb 13, 2023 | Human Rights
Introduction Syria has suffered for long before the devastating earthquake that took place earlier this week. The country was one of the dominos that fell during the Arab Spring in 2011. Where there were little lasting democratic achievements in some nations like...
by Elizabeth Schroeder | Feb 10, 2023 | Climate Change
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 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...
