Category Archives: ICLR Posts

When Credentials Stop at the Border: Brexit’s Warning for Florida and Texas Lawyers

By: Raymond Kayal  A Florida law student graduates in 2028 from a newly state-accredited law school. She studied hard, passed the Florida bar, and built the career she wanted. Until a New York firm extends an offer and she discovers her degree is not recognized. This scenario, currently unthinkable, becomes plausible under Florida’s recent departure from […]

Threatened Heritage: Egypt’s Great Transfiguration Project and the Future of Saint Catherine’s Monastery

By: Maria Varas For centuries, Saint Catherine’s Monastery existed in isolation from the rest of the world in the Sinai Peninsula. Since the Monastery’s 6th-century founding by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, Greek Orthodox monks have congregated to pray at the site where it is said that Moses spoke to God on behalf of the Israelites […]

Darfur is Dying: The Gap Between Law and Reality

By: Anne Boniface In October of this year, satellite images of the Darfur region in Sudan captured shocking and horrific images: clusters of deep red stains dotting the city of El-Fasher. Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab confirmed these pools were blood, evidence of the mass killings carried out in mere hours by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). In […]

The Global Tug-of-War Over Private Equity in Sports: What the U.S. Can Learn from Europe

By: Spencer Robinson In recent years, professional sports have entered a new phase that few observers fully anticipated: the convergence of billion-dollar private-equity firms and storied franchises that once seemed immune to the rhythms of high finance. The arrival of institutional capital marks a turning point in the business of sport, but the way that arrival […]