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Guest Contributor: Meera Manoj On  March 15, 2018, the United States issued an unprecedented and all-encompassing challenge at the World...

By Harris Mateen On May 4, 1979, Margaret Thatcher became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Her election triggered a...

By Anil Yilmaz The last two years saw the Trump Administration bringing about several impactful reforms in a multitude of socio-economic...

By Anil Yilmaz The last two years saw the Trump Administration bringing about several impactful reforms in a multitude of socio-economic...

By Leyla Karimzadeh On April 25, 1945, delegates from fifty nations met in San Francisco, California. The United Nations Conference on...

By Dru Spiller In a year that has been fraught with tensions about immigration bans based on religion and national origin, a surprising...

By: Luna Martinez Gomez On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg. Most of us are familiar with the tragic story of...

By Stephen Dockery Widely divergent views of data privacy continue to be a thorn in the side of American-European relations. And until...

On March 14 1975, representatives of some eighty-one States along with ten intergovernmental organizations and agencies gathered in...

By Dru Spiller Voting is a central part of civic duty and a basic element of democracy. Despite its importance, this right is often...

By Julia Jacovides On this day in 1989, Iran broke off diplomatic relations with Britain for its refusal to denounce Salman Rushdie and...

By Sam Mottahedan Education has been formally recognized as a human right since the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article...

By Dru Spiller On this day in 1922 Great Britain declared limited independence for Egypt following the conclusion of a campaign for...

By Edward Richter The United States (US) is on a collision course with China over the South China Sea. US attempts to enforce...

By Stephen Dockery On February 22, 1918, Montana’s sedition act—which criminalized speaking out against the government and its...

Guest Contributor: Jenny Poon  Ph.D. Candidate; Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario. Introduction Based on United Nations High...

By Fatma Ezzahra Sassi On February 7, 1992, the Member States of the European Community signed the Maastricht Treaty. This treaty...

By Guest Contributor Maitreyee Dixit As Trump and Kim Jong-Un exchange threats over Twitter, television, and speeches in the UN General...

By Guest Contributors Harsh Mahaseth & Nirupan Karki Harsh Mahaseth and Nirupan Karki are currently pursuing their degree in law from the...

By Guest Contributor Jessica Espinoza  L.L.M. at Harvard Law School Last year, the International Criminal Court (ICC) celebrated its 15th...