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Last year, China passed two different laws focused on data security and privacy. Volume XLV staff editor Anthony Wong discusses how these laws impact the transfer of data and documents, potentially impacting litigation in the United States, where discovery is much broader than those of many other countries.
Read MoreVolume XLV staff editor Celeste Williams discusses the forthcoming judgment from the European Court of Justice on the authority of the European Union to withhold funding from member states who violate the values of the bloc. A decision supporting such power could provide the Union with more teeth to sanction states for human rights violations and threats to democratic institutions.
Read MoreVolume XLV staff editor Matthew Jackson discusses medically unnecessary surgeries performed on intersex children, and the legislative progress developing in several countries to restore basic medical rights to intersex people. This piece also examines how global lawmakers can make important reforms to their jurisdiction’s informed consent laws.
Read MoreVolume XLV staff editor Jessica Lagnado discusses the new, hit movie, Don’t Look Up as a scathing critique on the world’s response (or lack thereof) to climate change and a commentary on why the Paris Agreement and, most recently, COP26 are not doing enough to combat the issue.
Read MoreVolume XLV staff editor Spencer Park discusses the advantages and disadvantages of phasing out cryptocurrencies in favor of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) to counter financial crimes, especially money laundering.
Read MoreThe Build Back Better Framework proposes a 15 percent minimum profit-based tax on corporations. Volume XLV staff editor Samana Bhatta argues that that this will bring the US in symmetry with corporate taxation of the world’s leading economies and encourage a fair corporate tax system.
Read MoreDigital assets are becoming increasingly prevalent in our economy. Volume XLV staff editor Adam Fink argues that while individual countries may regulate them within their borders, their supranational qualities require cooperation from the international community for regulation to be effective.
Read MoreVolume XLV staff editor Jacqueline Hayes argues that following an almost 20-year occupation, the United States left Afghanistan abruptly in the Spring of 2021. Many Afghans arrived in the United States on temporary humanitarian parole which does not provide a unique path to lawful immigration status. As such, many are advocating for the Afghan Adjustment Act which includes a particularized roadmap for Afghans on humanitarian parole to receive lawful immigration status.
Read MoreVolume XLV staff editor Joy Su argues that although the Netherlands has similar abortion laws to the current US law, it has seen consistently low abortion rates and few cases of unsafe abortions because of its widely accessible safe abortion procedures and contraceptives. There is a push for stricter abortion laws and abstinence-only education in the US, but findings show better access to safe abortion procedures and family planning resources lower abortion rates and unintended pregnancies.
Read MoreVolume XLV staff editor Esat Acar argues that Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention has severe consequences for victims of gender based violence, directly through the removal of legal protections, but also indirectly through the signaling effect withdrawal has and the removal of the monitoring mechanism of the convention, GREVIO.
Read MoreVolume XLV staff editor Micaela Gold argues that Trump-appointed judges have complicated the roll-back of Trump-era immigration policy, such as the Remain in Mexico policy. The Remain in Mexico policy has placed asylum seekers in danger by forcing many to await their asylum hearings in Mexico. The Biden administration has been forced to enforce the policy despite an attempted rescission.
Read MoreVolume XLV staff editor Rosa Kim discusses how world leaders gathered and agreed to set a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15 percent, a first step towards global tax reform to disincentivize multinational corporations’ tax avoidance practices. The next step would be to tackle IP-derived income, which also impact offshoring of patents and software IP to minimize corporate taxes.
Read MoreVolume XLV staff editor Abrahim Assaily investigates the ways in which the judicial investigation into the "Beirut Blast" has revealed the way that sectarianism has infected the Lebanese judicial system. And, why attempts to overcome this sectarianism have been met with hostility and violence from the political system.
Read MoreVolume XLV staff editor Jacqueline Bartha argues that in order to fully address the problem of sexual assault in state military forces, nations have begun contemplating removing these cases to civilian courts. Removal from the chain of command is crucial in ensuring that victims get access to justice.
Read MoreVolume XLV staff editor Jonathan Gold explains that while Brexit is a two-edged sword when it comes to on-field product of the English Premier League, its ultimate effect will be to further cement the power of the very richest clubs. Ironically, those clubs are almost universally backed by unaccountable foreign investors with near-limitless resources.
Read MoreVolume XLV staff editors Danielle Cepelewicz and Maura McKeon call for global digital reform to make access to the internet a mandatory right as a matter of customary international law. The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the internet’s necessity as a source of communication and as a safeguard of the most fundamental rights, including but not limited to freedom of expression, freedom of religious worship, right to work, and right to education. Without the internet, many have had to face the possibility that the pandemic might eradicate their most fundamental rights. The denial of rights has had a disproportionate impact on impoverished communities.
Read MoreVolume XLV staff editor Caroline Hymes focuses on the current surge of labor union activity in the United States, and compares the movement to widespread strikes in France that occurred in 2019. The comparison reveals the relative strength of US labor organizations right now.
Read MoreVolume XLV staff editor Angelica Mehta explains how political and social unrest in Afghanistan have led to poor and unsafe education opportunities to girls and women over the past four decades. Their education rights are once again being threatened since the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.
Read MoreVolume XILV staff editor Evan Richardson explains the litigation behind the meaning of “DLC,” or Downloadable Content, and its probable impact on the gaming industry.
Read MoreVolume XILV staff editor Aleksandra Ryshina explores the aftermath and implications of the SolarWinds hack.
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