Reports

Reports are shorter student pieces, typically totaling 5 to 7 pages, which address cutting edge legal issues in a more timely and accessible format, while still providing accurate legal citation and analysis. These pieces are intended for the legal reader as well as broader members of the community.

Vol. 49 Reports

Spring 2024:

Hannah Litty ’25: The Uyghrs: A Genocide UnansweredDownload
Volodymyr Usov ’25: Digital Evolution: Analyzing the Potential Impact of the EU’s AI Act on International TradeDownload
Julia Kaluta ’25: Conveniently Forgotten: Potential for Agricultural Worker Exclusion in the USMCA and the Importance of the Right to Strike under the ILO No. 87 Convention Download
Robert Morgan ’25: Empty Promises vs. Meaningful Enforcement: How International Trade Agreements Can (and Should) be Used in the Fight Against Climate ChangeDownload
Wendy Zheng ’25: Panda-monium: Analysis of China’s Panda Diplomacy Through the Lense of the UN Convention on Animal Health and ProtectionDownload
Erica Schimmel ’25: Illegal Attack on the Houthis? The Security Council Needs to Be Less Reluctant to Use Article 51’s ‘Until Clause’ as a Limit on a State’s Right to Self-DefenseDownload
Vaidehi Bechodi ’25: The Evolving Role of the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property in Dispute Resolution – Marbles of Parthenon Download

Fall 2023:

Gaaron Goldsmith ’25: Italy’s Newest Immigration Crisis?Download
The-International-War-on-Drugs-EditedDownload
Matt Ashley ’25: Green Power v. Spain: How A Successful Objection Could Change the Course of Clean Energy in the EUDownload
Thad Beaver ’25: The Biden Administration’s Asylum Policy Adheres to International Law…Technically.Download
Rebecca Broughton ’25: Agroterrorism and the Challenges it Could Pose for the UN Regarding the Use of Force Under Article 2 Paragraph 4Download
Chloe Nichols ’25: The Monumental Effects of Genocidal ExpropriationDownload
Lindsay Weber ’25: Weaponized Rape; Russia Violates International Humanitarian Law to Mar Ukraine’s Morale Download
Rachel Henley ’25: International Pharmaceutical Copyright Law: How COVID-19 changed the gameDownload

Vol. 48 Reports

Spring 2023:

Hayralah Alghorazi ’24: The Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act: A Fill-in for International Failings or an Impediment to
International Justice? Download
Sofia Hnatczuk-escobal ’24: The Rome Statute’s withdrawal power: an unintentional avenue for ICC member states to circumvent accountability for crimes against humanity.Download
Paige Doyle ’24: The Period PROUD Act: Menstrual Health is not a Hygiene Issue, it’s a Human Rights Issue.Download
Ram Desai ’24: Foreign Investment and National Security:Executive Order 14083Download
Dylan Miller ’24: Italy’s Sea Rescue Policy in Discord with International LawDownload
Caitlin Sarpal ’24: Green Deal or No Deal? How An Anti-Greenwashing Law Could Combat Harmful Practices in the EUDownload
Luka Vujaskovic ’24: The Best of Both Worlds: Implications of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework on Open-Access Digital Sequence Information and Benefit-SharingDownload

Fall 2022:

Mary Drue Hall ’24: Passing the Torch: The Role of Large Corporations in Human RightsDownload
Olivia House ’24: Five Years Too Long: Rightless Rohingya Women & the Ratification of CEDAWDownload
Jason Lee ’24: Conveniently Legal? – Shaky Legal Basis for Inter-State Drone OperationsDownload
Regan Metzger ’24: The Path of Least Resistance: Using the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to Hold Turkey Accountable for Abuses Perpetrated by SADAT Defense Consultancy Download
Hayley Stancil ’24: The New Era of Maritime Boundary Disputes: The Case of Lebanon and IsraelDownload
Emily Stellman ’24: Energy Crises on Two Fronts: Norway Considers Potential Power Export Limitations Amidst Russia-Ukraine WarDownload

Vol. 47 Reports

Spring 2022 Reports:

Gray Sotir ’23, MA: Intra-NATO Bilateral Defense Treaties: Undermining the NAT? Download
John Chambers ’23: A Bundle of Sticks or a Blockchain? – A Lawyer’s Guide to Traversing the Decentralized WebspaceDownload
Andrew Draper ’23: Polish Courts: A Threat to the Primacy of EU LawDownload
Luke Taylor ’23: How the ECHR Overturned Bulgaria’s Own Law in EkimdzhievDownload
Nina Ganti ’23: Tensions Continuing to Flare between Pakistan and India over Kashmir—How International Law and the United States Have Tried and Failed, and What Options are Available to Resolve This DisputeDownload
Anya Hovanic ’23: Zombies in Your Head, the Fight over Milk and Eggs, and What’s at Stake with the Northern Ireland ProtocolDownload
Chandler Wilson ’22: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: How COVID-19 has Setback a Decade’s Long Battle to Stop Child Marriage in South AsiaDownload

Fall 2021 Reports:

Zachary Boyce ’23: Religious Pilgrims or Pirates with Ideas? Download
Alanna Brannam ’23: Examining Global Vaccine Equity Through the Lenses of International Legal Cooperation and Human Rights LawDownload
Jonah Brumbelow ’23: International Human Rights and Brazil’s Legal Recognition of Indigenous LandDownload
Courtney Coppage ’23: Prosecutor v. Mladić: the (in)justice of a crime-driven history in the former YugoslaviaDownload
Catherine Goodman ’23: The Midas Might-Touch: Trying to Make Transnational Businesses Pay for What They Touch (or Might Touch)Download
Ashley Haynes ’23: Title 42: A Step Backwards for Asylum RightsDownload
Lea McBryde ’23: It Comes at a Cost: The International Community’s Ongoing Failure to Address Worsening Human Rights Violations in LibyaDownload
Sophia McMahan ’23: Addressing the Ugly Duckling of Human Rights for Businesses: An Examination of UN Task Forces’ Neglect of the Right to Freedom of ExpressionDownload
Jonathan Williams ’23: International Comity and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act in Usoyan v. Republic of TurkeyDownload

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