Category Archives: Student Blog

Biased Elections in Post-Dictatorship Chile: Has the 2015 Electoral Reform Done Enough?

By: Vincent Halloran, 2L In 2015, under the leadership of Pres. Michelle Bachelet, Chile undertook a dramatic electoral reform to address ideological bias and malapportionment endemic to its binomial legislative district model. Unique worldwide, many argue that Chile’s previous electoral system employed two-member legislative districts to preserve the neoliberal influence of the dictatorship and permanently […]

Title III of the Helms-Burton Act: Restoring a Private Right of Action May Create More Trials and Tribulations

By: Richard Perez, 2L Cuban bank “Banco Núñez” had twenty-two branches and controlled $105 million in assets in 1958. Two years later, the bank was confiscated by Fidel Castro’s regime and absorbed by the newly established National Bank of Cuba. Descendants of the former owners of Banco Núñez are now suing French Bank Société Générale […]

The Treaty of Tlatelolco: What Countries Today can Learn from Mexico’s Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

By: Romney Manassa Unbeknownst to most Americans, Mexico played a pivotal role in keeping our country—and arguably the entire world—safe from nuclear conflict. Following the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the country launched a campaign to denuclearize Latin America, which was the first attempt at denuclearization in a vast and populous region, let alone one […]

How Senators are Fighting Against ICE Detention of Expectant Migrants

By: Augusto Vaccaro Seventy-two hours into her detainment at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, Carmen Puerto Diaz, a thirty-three year-old woman who was five months into her pregnancy, worried about her baby and herself due to the lack of access to her high-blood pressure medication.  On the fourth day of her detainment, she […]