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International Human Rights Legal Compliance Must Be At the Center of Multilateral Regulation of Commercial Spyware
Micah Winters It’s been less than four years since a journalistic coalition dubbed “the Pegasus Project” upended the preexisting global paradigm of digital rights and...
April 25, 2025
Is Wealth Taxation the Solution to Growing Economic Inequality?
Nisat Chowdhury People all around the world are starting to pay more attention to the growing gap between the super-rich and everyone else. [1] The...
April 21, 2025
Expressive Law and the European Years
River Campbell The European Union (“EU”) straddles an awkward juxtaposition. On the one hand, the EU poses as the figurehead for continental governance in Europe...
April 18, 2025
Calling It What It Is: The Definitional Deficiencies of Genocide and the Argentine Paradigm
Alex Mysler What counts as a genocide? Does it matter what we consider genocide if we still recognize the fact that something is an atrocity...
April 15, 2025
Chaos in the Caucasus: Georgia’s Shift Towards Authoritarianism Threatens Global Democracy
Grace Begley While Americans deal with political chaos at home, a country on the other side of the world has fallen into severe turmoil. Tensions...
April 11, 2025
The Use of Commercial AI Services in War Spotlights the Urgency in Implementing International Regulations on Military AI Applications
Paulo Frank Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly transformed methods of operation and has vastly augmented capabilities across numerous domains over the last few years. [1]...
April 8, 2025
Canada’s UNDRIP Implementation Act: Binding or Just an Interpretive Tool?
Jake Oberg In 2021, Canada passed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (“UNDRIP Act”). [1] The act requires that Canada...
April 4, 2025
Fighting Words: Bill 96 and the Rights of Minority Language Speakers in Québec
Colin Lang In 2022, the provincial government of Québec enacted Bill 96: “An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec.” [1] Bill...
March 27, 2025
“A Legal Black Hole”: The Uncertainty Underpinning Trump’s January 29th Executive Order Expanding Migrant Operations at Guantanamo Bay
Halle Busch On January 29, 2025, less than a month into his second presidential term, President Donald Trump issued a memorandum titled “Expanding Migrant Operations...
March 20, 2025
“Shame Must Change Sides”: How One Woman’s Bravery Shook the World
Abbey Jordahl **Trigger warning: this post includes extremely graphic content related to sexual assault.** “Shame must change sides.” [1] With just four words, Gisèle Pélicot...
February 27, 2025