POR JAMIE LYNN VANARIA–El pesticida glifosato es el herbicida más vendido a nivel mundial, debido a su bajo precio y su eficacia. Por muchos años la comunidad científica ha identificado el glifosato como una substancia que solamente afecta las plantas herbáceas, la cual no tiene efectos para los humanos y animales. Sin embargo, un sinnúmero […]
BY MATTHEW FOWLER–African-Americans, Haitians, and Latinos remain largely racially segregated in impoverished communities. While there has been a small decrease in residential segregation due to the outmigration to the suburbs of a small number of African-Americans, residential segregation has proven to be resistant to change and remains the “structural linchpin” of American race relations.3 The […]
BY JORDAN BEHLMAN–With the rise of decolonization after the Second World War, many developed countries entered into international investment agreements, such as bilateral investment treaties (“BITs”), in order to protect themselves from uncompensated nationalization and expropriation of property from newly independent countries, due to colonialism’s long history and debilitating political, social, and economic effects on […]
BY KEITH ROSENN–Brazil’s current Constitution was adopted in 1988 as a reaction to 21 years of military dictatorship in which constitutional rights were widely disrespected. The 1988 Constitution began as a complex, detailed, and programmatic charter with 245 articles and 70 transitional articles. The original version of the Constitution contained serious defects in both design […]
