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 time, the United States Congress will have to determine which industries to prop up and which ones to let succeed or fail on their own. One of the industries under…
Continue ReadingBy 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 and Amazon shared personal data collected through their apps with various government agencies including local law enforcement. The government then used this data to track and collect information about your…
Continue ReadingBy Tucker Windels Last fall, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development secretariat released a statement outlining a proposal called the Unified Approach that would shift taxing rights to market countries using new nexus rules and a hybrid-transfer pricing system.[1] The new nexus rules aim to address the growing concern that international taxation in the…
Continue ReadingBy 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, and kippahs) in the course of their work.[1] While there may be debate as to whether this legislative measure is allowable under Canadian constitutional law,[2] the passage of the bill…
Continue ReadingBy Gloria Park On March 11, 2019, a famous South Korean singer was revealed to have circulated illegal and explicit “molka” footage in a chatroom including other male celebrities.[1] This was the singer’s second known time being accused of committing the offense.[2] Eventually, he was sentenced.[3] This allegation was one cog of the broader Burning…
Continue ReadingBy Elysia Lampert British Airways, Marriott, Google. What do these entities have in common? Each organization has been fined under the GDPR[1], or General Data Protection Regulation. It has been nearly two years since the GDPR came into effect,[2] and though enforcement has been relatively gradual[3], the regulation has proved that it has teeth. A…
Continue ReadingTable of Contents Articles: Enforcing Socioeconomic Rights in Neoliberal India By Rehan Abeyratne Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People: Implications for Equality, Self Determination and Social Solidarity By Tamar Hostovsky Brandes Making Children’s Rights Widely Known By Jonathan Todres Notes: Romani Women’s Right to Water: Bringing Intersectional Discrimination Claims in the E.U.…
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