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Anna Swedin | January 18, 2026 But if . . . everything depends on the arbitrary will of . . . persons who have the power to apply or not apply the law, what is the use of having law courts at all? Leo Tolstoy (1899) The contemporary Russian legal…
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Civil police officers from the Robbery and Theft of Cargo Division during Operation Containment. CC BY 3.0 Ashley Toledo | January 18, 2026 On October 28, 2025, a significant police operation took place in the working-class communities of Complexo do Alemão and Complexo da Penha in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.…
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Skyline of Taipei, Taiwan viewed from Mount Elephant on June 29, 2022. CC BY-SA 2.0 Jordan Jang | January 18, 2026 Introduction: With a year of the Trump administration behind us, the United States remains involved in a variety of international conflicts. Under Trump, America’s stance on protecting allies in…
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Stephen Fisher | January 18, 2026 In the early months of Donald Trump’s second presidential term, President Trump issued an Executive Order imposing sanctions on Karim Khan, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Later, the administration released statements expanding the order’s sanctions to other select prosecutors and judges…
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Akshansh Pandey | December 5, 2025 On the 7th of October 2025, India embarked on a new digital milestone when the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) introduced biometric authentication for UPI transactions. UPI is India’s real-time digital payment system that enables instant bank-to-bank money transfers via mobile devices. The…
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Sai Krishna | December 5, 2025 The Age of Treaty Withdrawals The global order is fracturing as States withdraw from hard-wraught international agreements exposing a deep crisis of confidence in international law. In one of the more strikingly visible illustrations of this, Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders…
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Honore Kanu | December 5, 2025 Le 23 juillet 2025, la Cour internationale de justice (CIJ) a enfin rendu son très attendu avis consultatif sur les obligations des États en matière de changements climatiques (ci-après avis) à la suite d’un processus laborieux. Qualifié d’historique, cet avis a été salué tant par les États…
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Dr. Atul Alexander | December 2, 2025 The International Court of Justice (ICJ) commenced its hearing on an advisory opinion pertaining to the right to strike under the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (Convention 87). The advisory opinion presents an opportunity to address…
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Samay Jain & Dr. Ananya Sharma | December 5, 2025 The European General Court’s September 3, 2025 decision to uphold the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) marks a significant turning point in cross-border data governance. Although the Court rejected the challenges to transatlantic data transfers, it emphasized that jurisdictional concerns…
