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Unilateral Economic Sanctions And Protecting U.S. National Security, Fatemeh Bagherzadeh

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Terrorism remains the most important national security concern. Multi-national economic organizations around the world have increasingly established counter-terrorism commissions to assess the magnitude of the threat posed by terrorism. Economic sanctions have been a counter-terrorism measure for many decades and remain an essential tool of U.S. foreign policy and a mechanism to protect the U.S. national security interests. In recent years, the internationalization of terrorism and emergence of non-state terrorist actors has led the U.S. to use smart targeted sanctions to dismantle financial support of terrorism. Yet, conventional country-specific nation-wide sanctions that penalize a single target nation, continue to be …

From The Editor-In-Chief, Liliana A. León Rivera

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Buyer Beware: An Exploratory Assessment Of The Static And Dynamic Effects Of The New Chilean Food Labeling Model, Omar Vasquez Duque

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Chile recently introduced an innovative food warning label system that intends to reduce current overweight and obesity levels among the Chilean population. This initiative has been generally commended worldwide. Chile’s new food labeling system mandates food producers to include a warning label that resembles a stop sign when the product exceeds a certain level of calories, fat, sodium, and sugar per 100 mg. The idea behind this regulation is that by making health risks more salient to eaters with simplified disclosures, people will change their eating behavior.

As a consequence of this new law, many product markets show a clear …

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A Relational Governance Perspective On The Politics Of China’S Social Credit System For Corporations, Alice De Jonge

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This paper uses a comparative method to analyze China’s evolving Social Credit System (SCS) for corporations, and the political discourse used to portray SCS as a governance tool facilitating Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) with Chinese characteristics. A modified relational governance framework is used. The importance of relationships (guanxi) in the Chinese business context is that it makes a modified form of the relational governance perspective uniquely appropriate. This study also draws upon evolving literature examining the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in international business contexts.

China’s corporate SCS is explicitly designed to evaluate corporate behavior through a “scoring” system of …

From The Editor-In-Chief, Liliana A. León Rivera

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The Fate Of Universalism In Global Insolvency: Neoconservatism And New Horizons, Eric Sokol

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Recent cases in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia have all signaled that international insolvency law is slowly losing traction to more regional proceedings. This can have huge ramifications for creditors of international companies. The past decade has seen much international progress in business insolvencies; with the previous “territorialist” models of regional dismantling giving way to more “universalist” approaches. New trends in these large jurisdictions may herald the discovery of modified universalism’s breaking point, but not its diminishment nor defeat. This healthy prognosis for modified universalism in the U.S., United Kingdom (U.K.), and Australia is further bolstered by a …

The Global Shift To 5g: How To Leverage Bilateral Access Reciprocity Agreements To Protect Telecommunications Infrastructure And Achieve Growth, Brittany Wightman

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As the five times faster, twenty-five times more robust, 5G network becomes the global standard, behind China’s technological leadership in the space, telecommunications network security is of ever-increasing importance. Since 2016, researchers have observed as China Telecom, a government-controlled telecommunications company with a large global presence, hijacked Internet traffic directed towards financial institutions, government sites, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and news organizations. The hijacks, which go largely undetected by victims, are possible anywhere a malicious actor has access to the technology that directs information from one location to another across the Internet. As the United States and its allies evaluate …

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Application Of The Child Soldiers Prevention Act To Myanmar: A Case Study In How A Simple Statute Insufficiently Addresses A Complex Problem, Anuradha Lingappa

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Congress enacted the Child Soldiers Prevention Act in order to stop public funds from directly supporting armies that use child soldiers. This paper examines how the Act has been applied to Myanmar, where both State and nonstate forces recruit children. Myanmar’s internal conflict illustrates numerous reasons for why children may join armed groups and demonstrates shortcomings in the Act’s approach towards curbing the practice.

The Jangali Movement And How Its Themes Persist In Protests Under The Islamic Republic, Sam Atabay Bidgoli

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Thanks to the Jangali Movement in the early decades of the 20th century, the northern province of Gilan in Iran was able to successfully establish a system of government that served the working-class population of the region. Although short-lived, this movement was a product of years of extreme exploitation of the labor, resources, and capital by both the national government and the global hegemonic powers of the era. The movement brought together an incredibly diverse coalition of working-class individuals who wanted to create a more equitable society. Under the current Islamic Republic of Iran, there have been several large-scale protests …

Shareholder Inspection Rights In China: An Empirical Inquiry, Robin Hui Huang

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Drawing upon overseas experiences, notably the U.S., China introduced the legal regime for shareholder inspection rights in its first national company law and over the years, has gradually developed more detailed rules and made amendments intended to better suit the local conditions. Apart from written law, this paper also conducts an empirical study of how the law has been applied in practice, by examining relevant cases adjudicated from 2012 to 2017. The empirical findings show that China’s shareholder inspection rights have some distinctive features, and there are similarities and differences between China and the U.S. (as represented by Delaware). Despite …

From The Editor-In-Chief, Ashlee Raskulinecz

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Creative Differences: Indigenous Artists And The Law At 20th Century Nation-Building Exhibitions, Lucas Lixinski, Stephen Young

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Indigenous peoples in major common law jurisdictions (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States) have had a fraught relationship with the state’s legal system. However, while denying Indigenous individuals and peoples the same rights as white settlers, each of these states used Indigenous art to create a distinctive national-state identity. We analyze four major exhibitions, one from each of these countries to de-naturalize legal institutions responsible for the oppression of Indigenous people. This agenda-setting, comparative legal analysis yields valuable insights for the regulation of the contemporary Indigenous art market, and to understand how culture makes legal personality.