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  • 6 May 2022
    Jonas Bens

    Political and Legal Emotions at the International Criminal Court

    During the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Gutteres, went to Ukraine. Apart from capital city, Kyiv, Gutteres visited the town of Bucha which had been retaken by Ukranian troops only two weeks before. After the Russian soldiers had left Bucha, dozens of dead bodies of civilians were […]

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  • 5 May 2022
    Andrew N. Kleit, Todd Aagaard

    Measuring Contributions to Electricity Grid Reliability

    Moving towards a low-carbon economy will require integrating massive quantities of renewable power into the electricity grid. This transition will create many challenges as existing electricity market institutions created for conventional fossil fuel-fired power plants must adapt to renewable resources. Here we discuss one of these challenges: accounting for renewable sources of power in electricity […]

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  • 28 Apr 2022
    Matthew Gillett

    Redress for environmental destruction: is it time for an International Court for the Environment (ICE)?

    The threat of severe anthropogenic harm to the environment continues to grow year-on-year. Military attacks, illegal resource extraction, exploiting endangered species, toxic dumping, and rampant deforestation are just some of the menaces facing the natural world. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has signaled its intent to prosecute the most serious incidents of environmental destruction. Experts […]

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  • 25 Apr 2022
    Linn Anker-Sørensen

    Who control Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)?

    We are witnessing an emergence of network-based commercial and utility driven platforms which by some have been announced to be the business model of the 21st century. Innovative business models, such as Decentralized Autonomous Companies (DACs) and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), are operated on decentralized ledger technology (DLT), which hold the merit of decentralization amongst […]

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  • 15 Apr 2022
    Tommaso Pavone

    The Ghostwriters: The Untold Story of How Lawyers Built the European Union

    Throughout world history, people have marshaled a wide variety of tools to forge new political orders. Some relied on the power of the gun, summoning soldiers and mercenaries to coerce compliance.1 Others resorted to the power of bureaucracy, wielding civil servants to regulate and reshape society.2 Yet increasingly, policymakers are turning to the power of […]

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  • 7 Apr 2022
    Mark V. Tushnet

    The Hughes Court

    Court-packing is in the air in the United States. Having decisively lost any hope of getting the current Supreme Court to rule in their favor, liberals today have begun to entertain ideas about Court reform that would have seemed fanciful a decade ago. We’ve been here before. In the mid-1930s the Supreme Court issued a […]

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  • 16 Mar 2022
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    Risa Schwartz, John Borrows

    An Introduction to Indigenous Peoples and International Trade

    Since the publication of Indigenous Peoples and International Trade there has been a number of notable international legal economic instruments incorporating provisions relevant for Indigenous Peoples, The Indigenous Peoples Economic and Trade Cooperation Arrangement (IPETCA), endorsed by Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Taiwan in late 2021, is the first multilateral economic instrument dedicated to Indigenous […]

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  • 28 Feb 2022
    Frank Rudy Cooper, Gregory S. Parks

    Notorious B.I.G.’S “Ten Crack Commandments” and Donald Trump

    In his 1997 song, “Ten Crack Commandments,” The Notorious BIG offered some rules to the drug game: I’ve been in this game for years; it made me an animal.There’s rules to this shit; I wrote me a manual.A step-by-step booklet for you to get,Your game on track, not your wig pushed back. These rules have […]

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