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Proposal to Overhaul International Tax System Faces Challenges

By 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 […]

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Throwing Away the Burning Sun: How South Korea’s Privacy Laws Leave Women Unprotected

By 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

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Volume 29, Issue 1

Table 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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Migrant Control Technologies Threaten Free Movement

By Caleb Harrison As the climate deteriorates and people around the world increasingly need to migrate, the United States (“US”) seeks to develop and implement migration control technologies like migrant databases and facial recognition technologies (“FRTs”) that threaten free movement.[1] For example, the US has recently begun implementing its “Extreme Vetting Initiative” (“EVI”)—an effort to

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Is the Trump Administrations Seizure of Syrian Oil a War Crime?

By Mike Franken In the past weeks, there have been numerous articles condemning President Trump’s securing of oil fields in southeastern Syria amidst the United States withdrawal from the conflict.[1] Further, there has been discussion on whether or not these acts are war crimes under the United States War Crimes Act and international law.[2] There

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The Tentative Resolution of the “Ayodhya Dispute” Signals More Turmoil in India’s Future

By Amanda Tesarek On November 9, 2019, a group of lawyers huddled outside the Indian Supreme Court began to cheer, “Jai Shri Ram”[1] ; after a long legal battle, a unanimous verdict now declared a perennially-disputed 2.77-acre parcel of land in Ayodhya as the birthplace of the Hindu god Rama and ordered that a Hindu

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Brazil’s Major Constitutional Questions Remain in Flux Following Lula’s Release from Prison

By Ryan Rainey On Nov. 8, a Brazilian judge ordered the release of former President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva from a federal prison.[1] The order followed a decision from Brazil’s highest court to allow criminal defendants to avoid imprisonment while they await the outcome of their appeals.[2] Lula’s criminal case is still pending, and

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