Mar 4, 2021 | Case Note, Forum, Uncategorized
By: Ashtyn DavisAbstract: 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 KemriteAbstract: 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...
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...
May 20, 2020 | Case Note, Forum
By: Lili McEntireAbstract: Safe Third Country Agreements are a means of controlling the flow of migrants into a country. In particular, these migrants are typically refugees seeking asylum in a new place. Safe Third Country Agreements require an asylum seeker to seek...
May 20, 2020 | Case Note, Forum
By: Paige Calabrese When a country is plagued with civil war, dictatorship, or extreme internal unrest, governments can become pressured to take aggressive measures to maintain order and establish power, including abducting citizens believed to be threats to their...
