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Volume 34, Issue 2
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Should the Global Community Reconsider Hosting the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles?
Paige Murphy As immigration raids have been ravaging our nation, alarm bells are going off regarding the 2028 Summer Olympics ...
Does Free Speech Necessitate the Freedom to Hate?: A Case for Regulating Hate Speech
Alana McBane Fundamental to an American’s sense of liberties is the well-guarded right to the freedom of speech, as enshrined ...
The International Crimes Tribunal: The Flaws of Hybrid Tribunals for International Crimes
David Eide On November 17, Sheikh Hasina, the former prime minister of Bangladesh, was sentenced to death in absentia by ...
From Boycotts to “Neutral Athletes”: How the Olympics Manage Geopolitics After 1980
Jordan Visina The Olympic Games have long been portrayed as a sanctuary from global politics where international cooperation briefly eclipses ...
The Siege-State Paradox: Law, Hegemony, and the Case of Venezuela
Thomas Plunkett The Bolivarian Republic has always had the ire of Washington. Amidst renewed saber-rattling—extrajudicial drone strikes on “narcos,”[1] amphibious ...
Dredging up Trouble: Environmental Implications of China’s Artificial Islands
Alexander Anthony In March 2014, satellite imagery showed a Chinese vessel dredging up sand near Cuarteron Reef—a submerged coral reef ...