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Italy and the Continental Double Standard: Breach of EU Asylum Policy

April 23, 2021
by Shreya Joshi International Law

At first glance, Italy seems to view its governments the way that teenage girls view outfits on their Instagram feed: they must be changed every post, and are never to be repeated. No other explanation is immediately apparent, considering that Italy has had over 75 governments in the past 75 years. ...

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Honesty is the Best Policy: Greenwashing in Europe

April 21, 2021
by Erin Yu with No Comment International Law

“100% organic,” “environmentally conscious,” and “eco-friendly” are some common labels stuck onto a wide range of products today, but just how accurate are these claims? A 2021 study by the International Consumer Protection Enforcement Network examined 500 company websites and reported that 40% pres ...

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The Fire Waiting for a Match: Ethiopia’s Civil War

April 7, 2021
by Shreya Joshi International Law

Most nations in Africa are multi-ethnic today because the state boundaries were arbitrarily drawn up in the Berlin Conference of 1884. Ethnicities refer to tribal identity, language, cultural history and other factors that unite a peoples. Ethiopia is different for a couple reasons. For one, it has ...

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New Zealand Approves Miscarriage Paid Leave

April 5, 2021
by Hyonjun Yun International Law

On March 25th, New Zealand’s Parliament unanimously approved a bill that provides three days of paid leave for women and their partners who suffer a miscarriage or stillbirth. A miscarriage is defined as the death of a fetus before the 20th week of pregnancy, and a stillbirth is the death after the ...

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UK’s New Crime and Policing Bill: Reforming Protest Amid Fear, Frustration and Mourning

March 27, 2021
by Cameron Page with No Comment International Law

Introduction: Just days after Sarah Everard’s body was discovered in the South East county of Kent, and as peaceful demonstrators in mourning endured disturbing heavy-handedness by the London Metropolitan Police, a new crime and policing bill – which threatens to “seriously curb the ability of citi ...

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The Never-Happening Change: Why Israel is having its Fourth Election

March 24, 2021
by Shreya Joshi International Law

Elections are often a tumultuous time in any country. An election that seems to never end, however, drums up a lot of unrest. Throw in a pandemic in the middle, and suddenly, Israel’s political crisis is more dire than ever. Israel’s political system is Parliamentary, which encourages a multi-par ...

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The European Commission Initiates Legal Proceedings Against the U.K. Over Its Trade Policy in Ireland

March 22, 2021
by Jacob Rosenzweig International Law

The European Union and the United Kingdom have engaged in seemingly interminable legal negotiations since 2016, when U.K. voters approved a motion to depart from the confederation in a “Brexit” referendum. Almost five years and three Prime Ministers later, the U.K. has yet to work out some of the de ...

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Japanese Court Rules Same-Sex Marriage Ban Unconstitutional

March 21, 2021
by Hyonjun Yun International Law

On March 17, Sapporo District Court in Hokkaido, Japan ruled that the country’s same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional. The ruling was in favor of a lawsuit filed by six people (two male couples and one female couple) in 2019. The plaintiffs sued for 1 million yen ($9,168.42) for the pain of not ...

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Hate Thy Neighbor: How Ethiopia’s Federal Government Is Committing Potential War Crimes Against Its People

March 7, 2021
by Jacob Rosenzweig International Law

Little was initially known on November 4, when Ethiopian federal forces invaded their own region, as the events were transpiring. The country’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed shut off internet access to the people of Tigray, a region in northern Ethiopia along the border of Eritrea, and cut off their com ...

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Canary in a Coal Mine: Germany’s Democratic Warning Mechanism

March 5, 2021
by Shreya Joshi International Law

Over the past five years, a resurgence of far-right rhetoric in the United States and Europe has altered the political landscape in the self-proclaimed Western world. Internet activity, especially on platforms such as Facebook, has encouraged echo chambers, leading many further right, extremizing vi ...

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