By: Brook Whitley PDF: A Beacon of Service Recent high profile human trafficking cases—particularly trafficking for sexual exploitation—have highlighted shortcomings in international human rights law. Human trafficking has unique features that necessitate aggressive and innovative approaches to justice for trafficking victims. Trafficking is often a transnational crime, involving transporting victims across borders. The networks traffickers create are pervasive and insidious

By: Ryan McNicholas PDF: Finding a New Enforcer The modern world economy has made it easier than ever for large multinational corporations to avoid paying taxes. As corporate tax rates are largely the domain of individual nations, sophisticated companies are incentivized to take advantage of differences in national taxation to minimize their own tax burden. This avoidance creates significant negative effects for impacted countries, which lose out on a significant source of g

By: Tao Huang PDF: Institutional Metaphors The Meta Oversight Board represents a significant institutional innovation in the governance of social media. It offers valuable insights and lessons for regulating content moderation practices on online platforms. Scholars and commentators have employed a variety of metaphors to describe the board: court, human rights tribunal, administrative law judge, arbitration panel, and internal self-regulation mechanism. These metaphors serv

By: Doruk Erhan PDF: The Hyper-Unitary Executive This Article foregrounds the civil bureaucracy as a central yet overlooked site of democratic backsliding. While authoritarian shifts are conventionally associated with the weakening of interbranch checks and balances, this Article focuses on a single branch—the executive—and identifies its internal remaking as a key explanatory variable. It examines the gradual erosion of a sub-constitutional separation of powers, which in or