This response begins by tracking the development of cultural heritage protection norms before embarking on a description of the current international laws regarding cultural property safeguarding during wartime, particularly the 1954 Hague Convention. The article then assesses the damage to various works of architecture in Iran as a result of the US-Israeli military strikes to determine whether such attacks constitute a violation of conventions regarding cultural heritage.
Read MoreThe 2026 Ethnic Unity and Progress Law marks a turning point in China’s minority policy, intensifying concerns over linguistic erasure, cultural integration, and the extraterritorial reach of state power.
Read MoreA body of law born from the United States’ colonial relationship with Native Americans is being repurposed to end Birthright Citizenship.
Read MoreThere's a version of this story where the dramatic moment is the memo. It isn't. By the time the Justice Department declared the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional in April 2026, the FOIA offices had already been gutted, the compliance director had already been fired, and the backlog had already grown by 42 percent. The memo didn't dismantle transparency law. It just stopped pretending it was still intact.
Read MoreAs prediction markets blur the line between derivatives and wagers, the law is struggling to keep up.
Read MorePresident Trump’s actions to accelerate permitting for mining in the internationally governed deep seabed violate customary international law and underscore the necessity of overdue deep-sea mining regulations.
Read MoreThe September 2025 “double-tap” boat strike, in which American military forces killed survivors of an initial attack on a Venezuelan vessel allegedly carrying drugs, seems to have slipped out of the nation’s political focus. Nonetheless, the legal consequences, or lack thereof, for this boat strike, which appears to constitute a war crime, bears important consequences for adherence to norms of humanitarian law around the world.
Read MoreThe World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement system, once the cornerstone of rules-based trade, is in jeopardy. WTO law must be reinterpreted and reformed to accommodate geopolitical realities while preserving baseline legal predictability.
Read MoreThe BIOSECURE Act requires restructuring of the biotechnology industry and introduces national security as the third pillar of industry governance.
Read MoreRhode Island’s juvenile diversion system rests on a promise of rehabilitation but operates in a space between discretion and inequality.
Read MoreSpain’s ambitious renewable energy expansion has become one of the most expensive policy missteps in its modern economic history. Although it was once an ideal for solar and wind growth in Europe, the country now sits at the center of a global legal controversy, facing a wave of investor-state arbitration claims that could reshape how governments regulate climate and energy policy in an increasingly investment-driven world.
Read MoreThe Supreme Court’s increasing use of the emergency docket under the Trump Administration is shaping national policy and expanding executive authority without the transparency or deliberation the public expects from the Court.
Read MoreRecent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations and campaigns across American cities have raised many questions about the federal government’s power to interfere with state matters. President Trump, in response to former President Biden’s purported weak immigration and border policies, has instructed ICE officials to engage in aggressive measures to crack down on illegal immigration.
Read MoreCalifornia’s experimental climate disclosure laws serve as an attempt to introduce climate policy amid the deconstruction of comprehensive federal regulation. The resulting litigation, supported by the federal government, has left the future of the state’s climate disclosure regime uncertain. The outcome of this case may dictate whether there is a future for state-enacted environmental legislation.
Read MoreAnalysis of the Chevron Doctrine as a fundamental reallocation of interpretative power, arguing that the demise of Chevron raises unresolved questions about the constitutional structure of modern governance.
Read MoreThis response examines the Trump Administration's legal argument and rationale behind demolishing the White House's East Wing to develop a White House Ballroom. The article will also examine the December 2025 lawsuit by the National Trust for Historic Preservation against the Trump Administration’s ballroom project.
Read MoreThe retreat of Arctic sea ice is reviving a longstanding dispute under the Law of the Sea over whether the Northwest Passage falls under Canadian sovereignty or international transit rights.
Read MoreA 2024 constitutional reform introduced direct elections for Mexico’s highest judges, transforming the structure of judicial selection. This article examines whether democratizing the bench strengthens legitimacy or instead risks weakening judicial independence and the constitutional balance of power.
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