Posts by MJIL

These are terrifying times for the people of Ukraine and horrifying for the rest of the world, witnessing a superpower invade its European neighbor for the first time since World War Two. On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, claiming there was a constant threat to Russia and announcing his…

By Joo Hee Park Several reports have shown polar bears ending up in towns in Russia seeking food. In June 2019, Officials in Norilsk have alerted its residents of a polar bear that appeared in the city center, digging through trash and lying down on the ground.[1] Just a few months back, local reports located…

By Maria Saracino-Lowe The world as we know it is, basically, ending. And it’s our fault. Anthropogenic climate change is triggering weather extremes throughout the world, with increasingly frequent “hot extremes, marine heatwaves, heavy precipitation, and, in some regions, agricultural and ecological droughts.”[1] Many of these changes cannot be reversed in our lifetime.[2] While there…

By Olivia Dai Among the world’s top ten economies (2018), only China mainland, Brazil, and China’s Macao region used to not have personal bankruptcy systems.[1] But Shenzhen, a Special Economic Zone of China mainland first provides legal rescue for honest but unfortunate individual bankrupts by enacting the Personal Bankruptcy Regulation of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone…

By Maleah L. Riley-Brown After nearly 8 years of conflict, it has been alleged by American forces that Vladimir Putin has mounted troops along the Russian-Ukrainian border and is preparing to invade Ukraine at a moment’s notice.[1] The potential issues that would result should Russia make good on the globe’s fear will not only trigger…

By Lexie Robinson The Migrant Protection Protocols (known as the ‘Remain in Mexico’ protocol) “authorizes the Government to return certain third-country nationals arriving in the United States to Mexico or Canada for the duration of their removal proceedings.”[1] This means that asylum seekers traveling through Mexico from other countries can be sent to border cities…

By Min Ji Kim Over a span of 100 days in 1994, an estimated 800,000 to one million people were slaughtered during the Rwandan Genocide.[1] The genocide arose from hundreds of years of conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis, two ethnic groups of Rwanda, exacerbated by Belgian and German colonial rule.[2] The killings ceased…

By Hattie Van Metre Merging companies are facing higher scrutiny from the European Union’s competition regulatory body, creating uncertainty for transactions that might have otherwise escaped review. In September 2020, Commissioner Margrethe Vestager of the European Commission (“EC”)[1] announced that the EC would begin evaluating mergers “worth reviewing at the EU level” based on referrals…

By Noah C. Hummel-Hall Video games are now an inextricable part of the modern American social fabric.  Nearly 227 million Americans play video games for at least one hour a week.[1]  Seventy-seven percent of those 227 million play three or more hours a week.[2]  And these “gamers” do not live in an alternate reality from…

By Elizabeth Mathie Thousands of migrants who had been camped between the borders of Poland and Belarus, not permitted to return to Belarus and kept from entering Poland, were cleared from the border and given shelter in Belarussian warehouses on Nov. 18.[1] Though this action has eased somewhat the humanitarian crisis posed by the migrants…