Jan 8, 2022 | Comment, Forum
By: Ryan Kemrite In the international sports-dispute world, there is only one “Supreme Court of Sport,” the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Before the CAS, the international sports community had a problem: there was no unified, international body that could...
Jan 6, 2022 | Comment, Forum
By: Luke Collins The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a tribunal formed by the United Nations that investigates and tries cases of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. On June 11, 2020, the Trump administration issued an executive order authorizing...
Jan 6, 2022 | Comment, Forum
By: Randee Williams Koeller Narcoterrorism is a problem that has plagued the world for centuries and persists to this day. Whether evidenced by a news headline or the quiet death of a person in a dark alleyway, the effect of illicit drug trafficking and...
Jan 3, 2022 | Comment, Forum
By: Evan Merritt On September 15, 2020, Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates announced the signing of the Abraham Accords, a historic peace agreement that included pledges by each of the signatories to pursue peace in the Middle East. Within a few months, two...
Dec 30, 2021 | Comment, Forum
By: Jacob Osborn False advertising in the video game industry is a rising problem. Over the last several years, misleading statements and blatantly false ads have taken the market by storm, but despite their global rise, only a handful of cases have been brought...
Nov 2, 2020 | Awards, Comment, Forum
By: Alexus Esquibel Abstract: In October of 2019, France, Denmark, and the Netherlands vetoed the opening of European Union (E.U.) accession negotiations with North Macedonia, Albania, and other Balkan states. This rejection was widely disfavored considering most of...
Nov 2, 2020 | Awards, Comment, Forum
By: Kyle Markwardt Abstract: The Paris Agreement on climate change represents perhaps the most inclusive and most liberal international agreement on preserving the earth’s environment. Brazil, which historically has attempted to conserve its natural ecosystems,...
Nov 2, 2020 | Awards, Comment, Forum
By: Marlei English Abstract: Homelessness is a plague that spares no country, yet not a single country has cured it. The type of legislation regarding homelessness in a country seems to correlate with the severity of its homelessness problem. The highly-variative...
Nov 2, 2020 | Awards, Comment, Forum
By: Madie ArcemontAbstract: Domestic violence is a pervasive international issue that is closely tied to deeply-set cultural values. In many countries, staggeringly few people report intimate partner violence of any kind, a problem that is exacerbated by systems that...
