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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...

By Guest Contributor: Michael Ristaniemi (LL.M. Uni. of Turku, Finland)  Currently, a Visiting Researcher at Berkeley Law and Legal...

By Edward Richter Since his election, French President Emmanuel Macron has embarked on an ambitious plan: to reform not only France’s...

By  Dru Spiller “Colorblindness” is the effective removal of minority identity for the purpose of official equality. Its use in Western...

By Harris Mateen On November 8, 1968, the UN ECOSOC passed the passed the Vienna Convention of Road Traffic and the Vienna Convention of...

By Sarah Pike The Internet can help promote shared international values through the exchange of information and ideas. However, it can...

By Sam Mottahedan In recent years, trenchant critiques have emerged over the reach of the European Convention of Human Rights (‘ECHR’) to...