Law

Poor metaphors can muddy the nature of environmental policy problems, but good ones can help policymakers begin to understand how to solve them. Using language carefully is critical…

This article is the first installment in a two-part series. Unlike South Korea’s centralized approach to contact tracing, other democracies faced legal impediments to similar approaches. The second installment reviews…

Once upon a time, in legal circles, there was just one conversation—Law 1.0. This was—and still is—a conversation about how settled legal principles should be applied to a…

Gay rights in the West have been publicly debated since at least the late 1970s. In much of the rest of the world, however, same-sex relations, and specifically male-to-male intercourse,…

In November 2018, Mark Zuckerberg proposed a new “Supreme Court” for Facebook, the “Facebook Oversight Board,” which will handle content moderation issues. The proposal is a response to the…

On May 24, 2019, Taiwan became the first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. In what was widely celebrated as a milestone in the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender)…

Currently, the most widespread approach to the constitutional review of legislation in European countries is the Kelsenian model of centralized review. In the US system of diffuse review, every level…

This article is current as of April 14, 2020. A few weeks ago, the acting Secretary of the Navy (A-SecNav) fired the commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, Captain Brett…

Introduction Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, offer significant potential benefits for development. This is especially true in environments where transportation is costly, such as mountainous regions or areas with…

Crises tied to drinking water affordability, quality, and accessibility are on the rise in the twenty-first century in locations and economies where we might not expect them: cities in middle…