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By Dru Spiller On this day in 1952, Kenyan Governor Eveln Baring declared a state of emergency in response to the Mau Mau Rebellion. The...

By Stephen Dockery The Court of Justice of the European Union will soon take up the question of whether data management agreements...

By Nazo Demirdjian Introduction The 2012 Delhi Gang-Rape in India garnered unprecedented national and international coverage. No rape in...

By Sam Mottahedan On this day in 1943, a 26-year-old Robert Lowell is sentenced to one year and one day in jail for evading the draft....

By Fatma Sassi On September 6, Belgium officially submitted its request to the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) for an...

By Edward Richter October 6th, 1976 was the date of the Thammasat University Massacre in Thailand, where it is simply known as the...

By Sarah Pike The Southern Bohemia Region (Sudetenland) in the Czech Republic, by DaveLongMedia. Available here. September 29th, 1938,...

By: Betsy L. Fisher Update: Just after publication, the Supreme Court ruled in Sessions v. Morales-Santana that gender-based distinctions...

By: Christy Chidiac Geopolitical context and international arbitration are intertwined. Contemporary political events illustrate an...

By Guest Contributor: Laura Nyantung Beny Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School Co-editor of Sudan’s Killing Fields:...

By Arjun Ghosh Arbitration is a useful way to settle commercial disputes because arbitration proceedings are usually faster and cheaper...

By Iosif Sorokin An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a procedure for evaluating the likely impact of a proposed activity on the...

By Ilya Akdemir April 14th, 1978, marks the date of mass protests in the Soviet Republic of Georgia, mainly in its capital Tbilisi, over...

By Jackie Momah The use of alternative methods of funding for arbitral proceedings is not a new development. Organizations have...

By Sara Birkenthal On April 7, 1906, The Algeciras Conference gave France and Spain control over Morocco. The Algeciras Conference took...

By: Iosif Sorokin On April 1, 2001, a US reconnaissance aircraft carrying 24 crew members collided with a Chinese fighter jet above the...

By: Lauren Kelly-Jones In December, in a fully-booked luxury hotel in the Austrian Alps, guests went to their doors and couldn’t open...

By Jiarui Wang On March 24, 1954, Hungary and the U.K. held a bilateral talk to resume the countries’ economic relations that had ended...

By Ilya Akdemir Recent developments regarding the legality of Russia’s intervention in Ukraine Was Russia’s 2014 intervention in Ukraine...

By: Maximilian Oehl In his recent documentary, filmmaker Adam Curtis translates the term hypernormalization, originally created by...