This week Hong Kong’s highest court delivered a landmark decision with profound implications for its judicial landscape, the preservation of fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law. But the ruling also demonstrates wider issues of CCP influence across the world. In this piece, I reflect on the unfolding news of UK judges sitting in Hong [...]
Credo quia absurdum, “I believe because it is absurd.” Tertullian For conspicuous reasons, the likelihood of direct war between Israel and Iran is increasingly “high.” What remains inconspicuous is that such a war could quickly or incrementally involve North Korean military assets. Even if Israel were able to keep Iran pre-nuclear, an already nuclear North [...]
President Biden’s recent proposal for eighteen-year term limits for U.S. Supreme Court Justices is a watershed in the perennial controversy over the composition and powers of the U.S. Supreme Court insofar as it is the first time that a sitting President has called for institutional reform of the Court. Although Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Court-packing plan [...]
In this article Elliott Michaud, a law graduate of the Universite Cote d’Azur in France, examines the pervasive impact of artificial intelligence (AI) over the past 18 months, highlighting advancements and concerns associated with its rapid integration into various sectors such as healthcare, law, media, and transportation, and the European Union’s proactive approach to AI [...]
The author, a visiting scholar at Cornell University School of Law, explores the impact on three years of since the Taliban banned education for girls in Afghanistan. It has been three years that the Taliban imposed a ban on secondary and university education for girls in Afghanistan. The initial ban was decreed by the Taliban’s [...]
In this piece, the authors, Annie Pforzheimer, a former U.S. diplomat who served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Afghanistan; and Jason Howk is a former U.S. military officer who is the Director of the Global Friends of Afghanistan, who has focused since 2002 [...]
“An intentional act of injustice is an injury. A Nation has therefore the right to punish it…. This right to resist injustice is derived from the right of self-protection.” Emmerich de Vattel, The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law 1758) Israel’s law-based conflict with Hezbollah and Hamas terrorism is grounded in the [...]
On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched an attack on Israeli civilians, resulting in deaths and hostage-taking. Reports of various atrocities, including sexual abuse, emerged. The victims included not only Israelis but also citizens of other countries such as France and Germany. The attack shocked the international community and drew widespread condemnation from governments worldwide. However, [...]
In 2012, Governor Mitt Romney was the Republican candidate for President of the United States, and Representative Paul Ryan (Wisconsin) ran for Vice President of the United States, as Mitt Romney’s running mate. On August 23, 2012, I published an article, on Jurist, discussing whether Representative Ryan, should he prevail in both elections, could concurrently [...]
Nearly two decades have passed, but Sammy remembers his father’s words clearly. Then a young professional, Sammy was out for a walk with his family in 2007 when they came across a convoy of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) vehicles, he told me in a recent interview. His little brother asked what ISAF was, and [...]
