The Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act: An Analysis of the Legislation’s Potential Effect on Chinese Companies and U.S. – China Relations
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...
How the Global Landscape for FRAND Licensing Terms Has Changed After Unwired Planet Int’l Ltd. v. Huawei Technologies Co.
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...
Are We Nations or Toddlers? Vaccine Nationalism’s “Me First” Approach and the Problem of Vaccination Distribution COVID-19
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...
How Germany Used Antitrust Law to Protect User Data
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...
AMLO’s Contrarreforma Energética: An Analysis of the Potential Ramifications of Renationalization for Foreign Investors in Mexico’s Hydrocarbon Sector
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...
The Balkans: Bulking Up for E.U. Membership
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...
A Great and Beautiful Cathedral: The Brazilian Amazon Through the Lens of the Paris Climate Agreement
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,...
Is a House Always a Home?: A Survey of Homelessness Laws
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...
Continuing Circus: Brexit, Boris Johnson, Northern Ireland, and the Internal Market Bill
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...
Blocking Russia’s Attempt to Dominate the European Natural Gas Market: How U.S. Sanctions Seek to Torpedo the Nord Stream 2 Underwater Pipeline
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...