HESA LAW JOURNAL

In the twenty-first century digital economy, more user data means more money, power, and dominance. Big tech companies like Facebook and Google have historically exploited user data to become the powerhouses they are today. Around the world, countries are trying to regulate these mega-companies using a common strategy: competition enforcement. Unfortunately, the United States is Read More …

Colin Harvey and Anne Smith

Between 2002 and 2003, the Honourable Peter deCarteret Cory led an inquiry in the United Kingdom that examined allegations of state collusion in paramilitary murder. The Cory Collusion Inquiry arose out of the Weston Park Peace Negotiations. For years, allegations of state collusion in murder cases had obstructed the pursuit of a lasting peace in Read More …

Following the trauma associated with being exploited in the commercial sex industry, sex trafficking victims are faced with the decision of whether or not to cooperate with criminal justice authorities in the investigation and prosecution of their traffickers. This Article comprehensively explores the contours of this decisionmaking process with primary, empirical research conducted with victims Read More …

Human rights lawyers are part of a larger group of persons, known as human rights defenders, “who, individually or in association with others . . . act to promote, protect or strive for the protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms, at the local, national, regional[,] and international levels. Morganne Barrett

Over the last decade, refugees have fled to more, different states than ever before. For example, the recent Syrian conflict has quickly transformed a state which once hosted more than fifteen percent of asylum-seekers globally into one of the largest source countries for refugees fleeing danger. This Essay assesses whether this and other changes in Read More …

Strong, functional systems of international law are critical to overcoming the challenges plaguing our increasingly globalized world; injustices that have spawned recently reaffirm the need for these systems. Successfully maintaining these systems requires deep multifaceted insights Kelly Adams

This article evaluates the legal basis for a state duty to cooperate with atrocity inquiries within the United Nations (“UN”). The conventional understanding is that such duty only exists pursuant to a Security Council decision. Through examination of General Assembly practice in monitoring state cooperation with atrocity inquiries, this article considers whether there is a Read More …

On October 2, 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist based in the United States, walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, where he was brutally murdered and dismembered by Saudi government agents.1 It was a brazen violation of the most fundamental, internationally recognized human rights, carried out by one close US ally in the Read More …

The United Nations, INTERPOL, and others have urged the international community to increase transparency in fisheries management because illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (“IUU”) continues its pervasive and destructive influence on the longterm conservation of fish stocks. Chris Wold