Mar 10, 2021 | Case Note, Forum
By: Evan Merritt Abstract: On April 2, 2020, Chinese-based Luckin Coffee shocked the investing world when it admitted that the company’s Chief Operating Officer had faked $310 million worth of sales. As the company’s stock price subsequently tanked and U.S. investors...
Mar 10, 2021 | Case Note, Forum
By: Vlada Wendel Abstract: Manufacturers in industries that are highly dependent on standards, such as telecommunications, rely on fair, reasonable, and non-discretionary terms when licensing standard essential patents. These patents are termed essential because they...
Mar 10, 2021 | Case Note, Forum
By: Shaina Weisberg Abstract: We often hear COVID-19 described as “unprecedented,” but is it? Battles against global pandemics are not unheard of, some occurring within the last decade. However, the concern over COVID-19 continues to fester as the effect appears to be...
Mar 4, 2021 | Case Note, Forum, Uncategorized
By: Ashtyn Davis Abstract: What should be done about big tech? The problem that everyone is talking about, yet no one has an adequate solution for. Over the past decade, the commodification of user data on sites like Facebook has created a commodity worth more than...
Mar 4, 2021 | Case Note, Forum
By: Ryan Kemrite Abstract: The Mexican hydrocarbon industry is at a crossroads. Current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has advocated for overturning the country’s energy reforms enacted in the mid-2010s by ex-president Peña Nieto. Peña Nieto’s energy...
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 | Forum, ILRA Abstract Series
By: Julien Tagnon Abstract: The Good Friday Agreement, signed on April 10, 1998 by the United Kingdom (the “UK”) and the Republic of Ireland, had put an end to the violence of the Troubles, a political conflict in Northern Ireland ongoing for the better part of the...
Nov 2, 2020 | Forum, ILRA Abstract Series
By: Ryan Kemrite Abstract: “Get out now or risk the consequences.” Those were the words of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a new series of threats aimed at “companies aiding and abetting Russia’s malign influence projects.” The Russian influence project is the...
