Conflict in the Middle East has precipitated unprecedented consequences in the maritime shipping and insurance sectors due to unsafe port fears and legal ambiguity in the Strait of Hormuz.
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The president’s military campaign in Iran, without Congressional backing, expands executive powers and erodes checks and balances.
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With the proliferation of executive policymaking and a Congress in seemingly perpetual gridlock, the Major Questions Doctrine has emerged as a critical check on executive overreach. Applied evenhandedly, the doctrine returns the nation’s most consequential policy decisions back into the hands of the legislative branch, as the Constitution demands.
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Anthropic’s ongoing legal battle against the Department of Defense will determine the future of AI liability and whether the Federal Government gets to determine its guardrails.
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Appellate courts insist that they interpret the law rather than create it themselves. This distinction is foundational to our government: Judges apply rules, instead of making them. Yet, anyone who has read one of the seemingly ever-increasingly contentious appellate opinions being released day after day understands that this line is not clear. Hard cases don’t announce their answers in a grand gesture, and statutory or constitutional language rarely resolves without judgment. The more difficult inquiry is where judicial discretion resides–and how visible it really is.
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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.
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The 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.
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A body of law born from the United States’ colonial relationship with Native Americans is being repurposed to end Birthright Citizenship.
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There'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.
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As prediction markets blur the line between derivatives and wagers, the law is struggling to keep up.
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President 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.
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The 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.
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The 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.
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The BIOSECURE Act requires restructuring of the biotechnology industry and introduces national security as the third pillar of industry governance.
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Rhode Island’s juvenile diversion system rests on a promise of rehabilitation but operates in a space between discretion and inequality.
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Spain’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.
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The 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.
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Recent 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.
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