December 30, 2021
The United States has long recognized the duty to protect refugees and prevent their return to persecution or torture. Indeed, the United States is a signatory to the Protocol to the Refugee Convention and the Convention Against Torture and has incorporated both treaties directly into domestic law and regulations. The Biden administration has, however, continued…
November 16, 2021
Citing its National Security Law, Israel recently designated six Palestinian civil society organizations as terrorist groups. This designation, based on classified evidence, amounts to an attempt to shut down swaths of civil society without meaningful due process. Around the world, similar national security laws have proliferated, sparking concerns about countries’ potential to misuse such laws…
November 9, 2021
The decision of Judge Bruce Schroeder, the judge presiding over the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, to bar the prosecution from referring to the people he shot as “victims” has sparked debate. This Essay discusses the significance of this distinction as researched in a recent study. In August 2020, Kyle Rittenhouse traveled from Illinois to Kenosha, Wisconsin,…
November 6, 2021
The New York Times Magazine’s story “Who is the Bad Art Friend?” sparked a flurry of online debate about friendship, literary ethics, and social media use. Much of the discourse revolved around the personal dispute between the two main characters, Dawn Dorland and Sonya Larson, but copyright law also played a role in the story:…
October 24, 2021
Almost one hundred years after the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA)’s enactment, a long-overlooked limit in its text is attracting the attention of federal judges. The FAA commands courts to enforce arbitration clauses in private contracts and empowers them to do so by staying judicial proceedings and ordering arbitration when a litigant shows that her opponent…
September 11, 2021
Earlier this summer, President Biden delivered on a highly anticipated campaign promise to crack down on corporate monopolies and boost competition across the economy. In a comprehensive executive order, President Biden pledged to take a “whole-of-government” approach to rigorously enforcing the nation’s antitrust laws, documenting how rising corporate consolidation harms consumers and small businesses in…
Professor Clark D. Cunningham holds the W. Lee Burge Chair in Law & Ethics at the Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta. He is an expert on applying…
Daniel P. Tokaji is Associate Dean for Faculty and Charles W. Ebersold and Florence Whitcomb Ebersold Professor of Constitutional Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. He…
Ian Samuel is a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. He is a former law clerk for Judge Alex Kozinski of the United States Court of…
