Featured articles by staff, students, guests, professors, and any posts that are not “daily news digest”
On September 14, 2023, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi released a decree stating that asylum seekers will need to pay a $5,000 (US) dollar fine to avoid waiting in a detention center while their applications are under review.[1] The decree was promulgated as a direct result of an influx of North African migrants into Italy, … Read more
As two of the largest democratic and economically affluent entities functioning on an international level, the United States and the European Union can be compared in a lot of ways. This perceived similarity can be utilized to get a better idea of how the US and the EU handle interest groups and legislative influence differently, … Read more
Families struggling to maintain their fishing businesses is an unfortunate reality in Laos. Most countries in the Lower Mekong River Basin share this bleak reality. In the past two decades, the water level and quality of the Mekong River in Eastern Asia have declined rapidly.[1] Stretching 2,700 miles, the Mekong is the world’s 12th longest … Read more
On April 6, 2023, the White House released a twelve-page document which “outlines the key decisions and challenges surrounding the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.”[1] A sensitive topic given the hyper partisan nature of politics in the United States today. However, lost in this debate are discussions of those who have suffered the most from the … Read more
Over the centuries, economies across numerous nations have periodically been subject to asset price bubbles. An asset price bubble is a market phenomenon characterized by surges in asset prices to levels significantly above the fundamental value of that asset.[1] Dating back to the Dutch tulip mania bubble of the early 17th century, speculation drove the value of tulip bulbs to … Read more
In early 2023, ChatGPT took the world by storm.[1] Many flocked to its website to generate poems, articles, and exam answers to see what it was capable of.[2] It is much more advanced than most anticipated.[3] Its surprising level of advancement has led many people and corporations to discuss its potential productivity benefits.[4] Despite all … Read more
In our current society, we are constantly inundated with information. The average American reportedly consumes 34 gigabytes of information every day.[1] That is the equivalent of playing over 15,000 hours of Fortnight or scrolling for 94 hours on TikTok.[2] Information can be falsified in order to change a person’s perception of reality and is used … Read more
Before the international human rights law regime was established, international law guided and colluded in many human rights atrocities which disregarded the rights of certain human beings and created an international system used to exploit these individuals.[1] The use of human beings as slaves was made an international economy; this immoral system was developed … Read more
The Justice Department recently announced an international coordinated operation to dismantle Genesis Market, “a criminal online marketplace that advertised and sold packages of account access credentials–like usernames and passwords for email, bank accounts, and social media–that had been stolen from malware infected computers around the world.”[1] This concerted international effort … Read more
After two years of ineffective negotiations between the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU) over the parties’ dispute regarding the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Irish Sea customs border, the parties have ultimately reached a compromise with an agreement called the Windsor Framework.[1] The UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and the President of … Read more
The Denver Journal of International Law & Policy is one of the oldest international law journals in the United States and is ranked internationally. It is managed and edited by students at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
