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Climate Change And Human Trafficking After The Paris Agreement, Michael B. Gerrard Mar 2018

Climate Change And Human Trafficking After The Paris Agreement, Michael B. Gerrard

University of Miami Law Review

At least 21 million people globally are victims of human trafficking, typically involving either sexual exploitation or forced labor. This form of modern-day slavery tends to increase after natural disasters or conflicts where large numbers of people are displaced from their homes and become highly vulnerable. In the decades to come, climate change will very likely lead to a large increase in the number of people who are displaced and thus vulnerable to trafficking. The Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 established objectives to limit global temperature increases, but the voluntary pledges made by nearly every country fall far short of …


Bringing Balance To The Force: The Militarization Of America’S Police Force And Its Consequences, Anta Plowden Nov 2016

Bringing Balance To The Force: The Militarization Of America’S Police Force And Its Consequences, Anta Plowden

University of Miami Law Review

The current trend in the militarization of police can be traced back to the earliest times in our country. We are soon approaching a tipping point in which the combination of aggressive military tactics, wrongful deaths and injuries, and a lack of accountability will lead to an increase in civil unrest and animosity towards those who have sworn to uphold the law. In an ironic twist of fate, the military force, which law enforcement is trying to emulate, has made sharp adjustments in the way it operates due to the missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. It has adopted more police-like …


A Comparative Approach To Economic Espionage: Is Any Nation Effectively Dealing With This Global Threat?, Melanie Reid May 2016

A Comparative Approach To Economic Espionage: Is Any Nation Effectively Dealing With This Global Threat?, Melanie Reid

University of Miami Law Review

In 1996, Congress passed the Economic Espionage Act (EEA), 18 U.S.C. Sections 1831 and 1832, to help thwart attempts by foreign entities intent on stealing U.S. proprietary information and trade secrets. Despite the passage of the EEA almost twenty years ago, if recent statistics are to be believed, there is so much trade secret thievery going around that the United States finds itself in the midst of an epidemic of economic espionage. Currently, any and all U.S. technology that is vulnerable and profitable is being targeted. Unfortunately, existing remedies and enforcement have barely blunted the onslaught against the U.S. which …


Gender Justice In The Americas: A Transnational Dialogue On Sexuality, Violence, Reproduction, And Human Rights, Alma Luz Beltrán Y Puga, Caroline Bettinger-López, Jorge Contesse, Paola Garcia-Rey, Diana Hortsch, Risa E. Kaufman, Nicole Tuszynski Apr 2011

Gender Justice In The Americas: A Transnational Dialogue On Sexuality, Violence, Reproduction, And Human Rights, Alma Luz Beltrán Y Puga, Caroline Bettinger-López, Jorge Contesse, Paola Garcia-Rey, Diana Hortsch, Risa E. Kaufman, Nicole Tuszynski

University of Miami Law Review

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Removal Of Central American Gang Members: How Immigration Laws Fail To Reflect Global Reality, Freddy Funes Oct 2008

Removal Of Central American Gang Members: How Immigration Laws Fail To Reflect Global Reality, Freddy Funes

University of Miami Law Review

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