Tag: Law
104 Articles
- Global Governance
How Poland’s Law & Justice Party Plans to Win
From Hungary to Turkey, strong, democratically-elected parties have used their control over the legislature to change their constitutions and other rules of the game in ways that…
October 3, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Part II: (Un)Accountability for Torture
Public Reputational Accountability Gaps and Failures “The category of public reputational accountability,” Keohane asserts, “is meant to apply to situations in which…
June 20, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Part I: (Un)Accountability for Torture
With the nomination and eventual appointment of Gina Haspel to the directorship of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), debates around the legality and the morality of the…
June 17, 2019
- Science & Technology
Cybersecurity for Global Medical Device Supply Chain: The U.S. FDA’s Role
As a result of the growing use of information and communication technology (ICT) within medical devices, cybersecurity within medical devices is becoming a serious global issue…
May 19, 2019
- Conflict & Security
A Court Worth Having? Growing Pains at the International Criminal Court
The U.S. government has had a highly ambivalent attitude toward the ICC from the beginning. Washington long supported a jurisdictional procedure for an international criminal…
May 16, 2019
- Forum: LGBTQ+ Issues in International Relations
- Society & Culture
LGBTIQ Rights in Kenya: On Artivism and Social Change
In a country where many consider homosexuality to be “un-African,” the High Court decision will mark a watershed moment in a twenty-year struggle. For two decades, a lively…
May 14, 2019
- Society & Culture
The Struggle of the Indigenous Population in Contemporary Brazil
But the decisive step was taken by the Constitution of 1988, in which Article 231 establishes that the Indians’ “original rights” (“direitos originários”) to the lands…
May 8, 2019
- Human Rights & Development
The Human Right to Adequate Housing in India: Obstacles and Challenges
The story of Shakur Basti is not an isolated one. Indian cities, towns, and villages routinely witness forced evictions. In 2017, state authorities across India demolished about…
March 22, 2019
- Science & Technology
It’s Now Aadhaar with Caveats
In its 1448-page verdict, the Court held the Aadhaar Act to be a beneficial piece of legislation that involves “parting with minimal information” in service of the “larger…
February 15, 2019
- Conflict & Security
A Rules-Based Order to Keep the Internet Open and Secure
When J.P. Barlow presented his 1996 “Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace” in Davos, cyberspace was idealized as a separate universe, detached from the ‘real’…
October 30, 2018