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Is Biden’s call to stall the wall the end of it all?

By Zack Crandell On his first day in office, January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden signed a proclamation exploring options to terminate the national emergency...

The Beginning of the Biden-Harris Term: A Review of Policy & Executive Orders

By Parth Deshmukh In just over two weeks in office, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have issued nearly fifty executive orders, [1]...

The War on Huachicol: Mexico’s Crackdown on Gas Thieves

By Mike Green Mexico’s recent military clampdown on organized criminals that sell stolen gas, or huachicol, has produced short-term results. But until the corruption that...

How Advancing Property Rights Will Promote Economic Growth for Rural Colombian Women

By Grace Swindler Colombia’s existing property ownership laws can be traced back to the Spanish conquest of South America. [1] After Colombia’s liberation from Spain...

The Trademark Modernization Act of 2020: Potential Protections Against Fraudulent Trademark Applications from China

By Emma Janicki The Trademark Modernization Act of 2020, a bill with bipartisan and bicameral support, was introduced in both houses of Congress in March...

Flags of Other Nations: Explaining How Cruise Companies Pay Less in Taxes

By Sam Logterman The current coronavirus epidemic has affected businesses across the United States. As the economy remains shuttered for an increasingly extended period of...

The Threat of COVID-19 Emergency Powers to the Right to Privacy

By Jay Ettinger Imagine if in response to COVID-19 the U.S. government announced a new program in which large tech companies such as Facebook, Google...

Proposal to Overhaul International Tax System Faces Challenges

By Tucker Windels Last fall, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development secretariat released a statement outlining a proposal called the Unified Approach that would...

Four Societal Consequences of Quebec Bill 21

By Cody Humpherys Quebec’s recently passed secularism law, Bill 21, prohibits a wide array of government employees from wearing religious symbols (such as hijabs, turbans...

Throwing Away the Burning Sun: How South Korea’s Privacy Laws Leave Women Unprotected

By Gloria Park On March 11, 2019, a famous South Korean singer was revealed to have circulated illegal and explicit “molka” footage in a chatroom...