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Drug Policy Reform In The Americas: A Welcome Challenge To International Law, Alvaro Santos
Drug Policy Reform In The Americas: A Welcome Challenge To International Law, Alvaro Santos
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Drug policy in the American hemisphere is in flux. After decades whereby a prohibitionist regime reigned supreme and proposing alternatives was taboo, several countries have begun to reconsider policy, particularly in the case of marijuana. International law has been instrumental in building the legal and institutional regime of prohibition, and it has remained largely impervious to critiques of its disastrous consequences. Indeed, when it comes to drug law and policy, international law has been part of the problem. Nevertheless, countries in the Americas have begun to adopt innovative strategies that also embrace international obligations. In this essay, I examine the …
Is Data Localization A Solution For Schrems Ii?, Anupam Chander
Is Data Localization A Solution For Schrems Ii?, Anupam Chander
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
For the second time this decade, the Court of Justice of the European Union has struck a blow against the principal mechanisms for personal data transfer to the United States. In Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland, Maximillian Schrems, the Court declared the EU-US Privacy Shield invalid and placed significant hurdles to the process of transferring personal data from the European Union to the United States via the mechanism of Standard Contractual Clauses. Many have begun to suggest data localization as the solution to the problem of data transfer; that is, don’t transfer the data at all. I argue …