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Pig‑Butchering Scams and the Non‑Punishment Principle: Why Trafficked “Scammers” Shouldn’t Be Treated as Criminals

Ben Forsberg Across the United States, headlines have emerged about retirees losing savings to crypto investment scams[1] and CEOs tricked into wiring company funds to offshore wallets.[2] Most of the attention has focused on financial victims, but far less attention has been paid to the other side of the scam

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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 the Bangladeshi International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) for crimes against humanity stemming from her government’s lethal crackdown on student protestors during the July 2024 Revolution.[1] This sentence is particularly notable because

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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 geopolitical conflict. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres recently stated that the Olympics “are an excellent moment to symbolize peace and respect for international law and international cooperation.”[1] Yet, history suggests

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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 landing drills in Puerto Rico,[2] and carrier group deployments in the Caribbean[3]—Washington’s jus ad bellum: electoral illegitimacy and narco-corruption,[4] are symptoms. The deeper issue is alignment. Venezuela exited the American

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The Silent Veto: An Examination of the Pocket Rescission in International Affairs

Keaton Zeimet On President Trump’s first day in office, his administration ordered billions of dollars in international aid frozen,[1] which would result in a cascading domino effect with several trips to the Supreme Court and a seldom-used executive tool. In an executive order, the Trump Administration froze billions of dollars

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Who Owns AI-Generated Creativity? A Comparative Look at International Copyright Approaches

Jiakang Yu Generative artificial intelligence now produces expressive works—images, music, code, even legal analysis—that resemble human creativity with increasing sophistication. Yet copyright systems around the world still assume that authorship is exclusively human. As states scramble to update their intellectual property regimes, the question of whether AI-generated works deserve legal

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