The United States has long criminalized bribery of foreign officials but not bribery by foreign officials. Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA"), an American may

be criminally liable for paying a bribe to another country's official, but the official commits no corresponding crime. [...]

Since the fourteenth century, countries have sought to criminalize unhoused individuals by labeling them as "vagrants." Currently, the United States and other countries continue

to criminalize acts of sleeping rough, begging, loitering and other vagrancy-type activities that disproportionately target unhoused persons. [...]

The Special Jurisdiction for Peace ("JEP"), created as part of Colombia's historic 2016 Peace Agreement, has been hailed as a novel, restorative justice-oriented mechanism

for addressing gross human rights violations at the domestic level. Commentators point to the JEP as a potential model for other jurisdictions looking to address [...]

The French Government recently reformed the "Ecological Bonus" scheme, which has generously supported its domestic consumers in purchasing electric vehicles ("EVs"), by introducing

a new criterion based on the amount of carbon emitted in the vehicle's manufacturing. [...]

Written by Clare Ferguson with Olga Dunderberg. The agenda for the European Parliament’s June 2025 plenary session has a strong focus on the rule of law and advances several

important files through the legislative procedure. The Commission will make statements on the following week’s NATO summit, and on the recently adopted European [...]

Wrongful detentions are on the rise. Over the past ten years, U.S. nationals have increasingly found themselves detained abroad upon spurious allegations, facing trumped-up

charges, and deprived of basic due process protections. Most of these detentions occur in countries hostile to the United States: Russia, Iran, North Korea, China, [...]

This Note explores two overlapping challenges in the United States constitutional and political system. First, the United States increasingly relies on private companies for

technologies necessary for national defense. This has given outsized power to a few unelected corporations and people who might have their own incentives that misalign [...]

Wright v. Dorsey, a recent defamation case, demonstrates the limitations of anti-SLAPP ("Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation") law and the need for supplemental

speech protections. Joshua Wright, an antitrust law practitioner and former professor, sued Elyse Dorsey and Angela Landry for defamation. [...]