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FCPA Enforcement Expectations Under President Trump

By Jinyoung Seok, Managing Editor The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) was enacted in 1977 in the wake of reports of numerous U.S. businesses were making large payments to foreign officials to secure business.[1] It prohibits corruptly giving, promising, or offering anything of value to a foreign governmental official, political,

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Including Launch Services in the GATS Can Relieve the Drought in the United States Small Satellite Launch Market.

By Shane Fitzmaurice, MJIL Staff Member Currently, small satellite developers in the United States are pressuring the government to let them launch their satellites on India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).[1] These companies would be more than happy to launch their satellites on vehicles made in the United States, except

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Brazil’s Next Big Scandal: Weak Flesh

By Cooper Johnson, Note and Comment Editor Brazil has become the center of corruption in recent years. Odebrecht SA, Latin America’s largest construction company, agreed to pay more than $3.5 billion to resolve bribery allegations involving Brazil’s state-run oil company.[1] The company admitted to paying officials of the Brazilian oil

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The Importance of Clinic Work and Legal Education

By Emily Spallino, Lead Note & Comment Editor This month the University of Minnesota Law School received a record $25 million donation from the Robina Foundation.[1] Of the $25 million, $23.5 million will be placed in an endowment to support the Center for New Americans, which will be renamed after James

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Denying Asylum Claims of the Persecuted

By Miranda Slaght, MJIL Staff Member Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Congress made drastic changes to immigration law.[1] These changes, such as the passage of the REAL ID Act of 2005, significantly expanded restrictions on immigration.[2] Unsurprisingly, part of the expanded restrictive laws was aimed at barring people from

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Trial of Former Child Soldier Begins at the ICC

By Alfredo Hwang, MJIL Staff Member On December 6, 2016, the prosecution of Dominic Ongwen, a former child soldier abducted by the Ugandan rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army (“LRA”) who eventually became the commander of the LRA’s Sinia Brigade, began at the International Criminal Court (“ICC”).[1] What are the Charges

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“It’s a Small World After All”

By Kathryn Burkart, MJIL Staff Member As a child, and admittedly young adult, I have loved the ride “It’s a Small World” at Disneyworld. While on the ride you sit in a boat that takes you into various rooms that represent different regions of the world where animatronic dolls all

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North Korea’s Human Rights Obligations: North Korea Sends Report to the CEDAW Committee

By Eric Ryu, MJIL Staff Member Even though the documented human rights abuses in North Korea is extensive, they are a party to four major international human rights treaties: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)[1], International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights[2], Convention on the Rights of

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Insolvency Law and Foreign Direct Investment

By Jason Jack, MJIL Staff Member Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) generally refers to the activities of corporations investing in projects outside of their own country’s borders. Factors commonly understood to influence FDI include economic conditions, diplomatic connections, and simple supply and demand. An additional factor that has often been overlooked

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Changing Tides in the Global Landscape of Mergers and Acquisitions

By Braxton Roam, MJIL Staff Member The global mergers and acquisitions landscape has drastically transformed over the past half-century.[1] Hostile takeovers peaked at 40% of the total M&A market in 1967, but has dropped to just 8.6% by 2014.[2] To that end, investment banks have found other methods to create

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