By Alyssa Lazar, Staff Writer At the 2015 Golden Globes, Tina Fey joked, “George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin this year. Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an adviser to Kofi Annan regarding Syria, and was selected to a three-person U.N. commission investigating rules […]
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: JASTA and the Golden Rule
By Matt DeSantis, Staff Writer September saw the first Congressional override of a presidential veto in President Barack Obama’s term, resulting in a law that limits the scope of foreign states’ sovereign immunity even further than its predecessor, the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.[1][2] The passage of this […]
SOS: Paris Under Attack
SOS: Paris Under Attack By Mohammed Al-Bidhawi, Staff Writer I write this opinion piece, article, blog post, endless rant of emotions, not a day after terrorists struck at the heart of Paris. I write this after more than 100 innocent lives were taken from us. I write this with a […]
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