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Whitewashing the Past: The Modern Legacy of the Theory Behind Buck v. Bell

Noah Richardson In 1927, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, wrote the opinion in Buck v. Bell that upheld...

The Wide Reach of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive

Emily Seitz The European Union (“EU”) presented the European Green Deal in December of 2019. [1] The European Green Deal consists of various policy instruments...

El Salvador's Mano Dura: Balancing Order and Rights in the Shadow of Gang Violence

Laura Reyes, University of Minnesota Law Volume 34 Editor-in-Chief “We can arrest anyone we want,” a Salvadoran law enforcement officer remarked to a mother after...

International Adjudication vs. Judicial Remedies, Abirami Swaminath

International Adjudication vs. Judicial Remedies, Abirami Swaminath The foremost authority on international law is the International Court of Justice (ICJ). However, the various networks within...

Russia-Ukraine Conflict: International Legal Enforcement Takes a Sideline Seat to Economic Prowess, Chaisson Bowen

The ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia, which escalated with Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the recent invasion of Ukraine in 2022, has...

Tracking International Tax Avoiders, Brooke Meister

Tracking International Tax Avoiders, Brooke Meister Tax season is coming up for US based taxpayers and while the subject of tax is often the pinnacle...

The Ethiopia-Somaliland Naval Base Deal is a Violation of International Law

The Ethiopia-Somaliland Naval Base Deal Is a Violation of International Law Aman Obsiye On January 1, 2024, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed a memorandum...

U.N. Cybercrime Treaty a Potential Threat to Free Speech

Wendy Erickson The United Nations is in the process of negotiating a landmark global cybercrime treaty, which if adopted, will be the first binding U.N...

From Aeolus to Ares: Wins of War Stir in the Eastern Aegean

Jacob Vander Weit Accounts of hostility and contention between Greece and Turkey over the Aegean Sea have been recorded since the dawn of western literature...

UK-Rwanda ‘Asylum Partnership’: Legislation introduced to skirt rulings by the UK Supreme Court and ECHR

Mikaela Braddy Smith In the United Kingdom (UK), a debate has sparked over a new bill that was introduced in Parliament on Thursday, December 7...