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The Right to Food and Refugees: Food Autonomy, Dignity, and Cultural Adequacy Within Refugee Camps

By: Photini Kamvisseli Suarez December 5, 2022 The right to food is an internationally recognized human right, and is referred to in Article 25 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights:  “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and […]

No Revenue, No Problem: Illuminating Illumina’s Blocked Acquisition of GRAIL (and What the Netherlands Has to Do With It)

On October 28, 2022, European Union (EU) regulators renewed interim measures ordering Illumina to keep GRAIL as a separate entity following Illumina’s September 2020 acquisition of the cancer detection company. Illumina jumped the gun and acquired GRAIL before obtaining approval from EU antitrust regulators under the EU Merger Regulation (EUMR). Failure to comply with the interim measures could result […]

Indigenous, But Not Really: Native Hawaiians Deserve a Chance at Self-Governance

By: Joshua Sloan November 28, 2022 Native Hawaiians were once a sovereign people who have become a neglected and impoverished minority in their own territory. In 1988, the American Indian Law Review laid out a comprehensive argument for granting Native Indigenous status for Native Hawaiians. 34 years later, no such status has been granted. So how has […]

All Eyes on the East – The United States and Taiwan Cooperate to Combat Chinese Influence

By: Zachary Kaufman November 21, 2022 Although the battle lines have been drawn for years with civil wars turning into proxy wars across the globe, World War III essentially started in the Winter of 2022 when Russia initiated a war of aggression under the guise of a “peacekeeping” operation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.  On February […]