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Immigrant Nations: A Comparison Of The Immigration Law Of Australia And The United States, Ty Twibell
Immigrant Nations: A Comparison Of The Immigration Law Of Australia And The United States, Ty Twibell
Ty Twibell
This article discusses the political, legal and cultural similarities between the United States and Australia. It ties in the experience of the author in living both these countries and as an immigration attorney.
As an introduction, this article notes that Australia and the U.S. have many common traits. Both Australia and the U.S. are termed “immigrant nations” because the vast majority of what constitutes the populations in the current political entities of the “Commonwealth of Australia” or the “United States of America” are immigrants. Both nations were also rooted in the colonialism of the British Empire with corresponding Anglo-American legal …
Circumnavigating International Space Law, Ty Twibell
Circumnavigating International Space Law, Ty Twibell
Ty Twibell
Space industrial development has many difficulties; however, many of the difficulties are legal obstacles. The author has asserted that international space law presently hinders the commercial development of outer space, and thus, requires legal change. Vigorous space commercial development is crucial, however, not for intellectual development alone. It offers massive economic, medical, industrial, and humanitarian rewards. Better vaccines and antibiotics can be produced in space in far greater quantities than on earth. Mining the moons, asteroids, and comets provides answers to future energy depletion and would provide enormously less expensive construction of spacecraft and colonies than launching from Earth. Apace …