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Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Legal Frameworks for Governance: Addressing Racial Bias and Inequality in Business

September 10, 2020

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By Edward Jung (PO ’22) Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an increasingly dominant player in the field of marketability within business. A self-regulating business model first explored by business professor Archie B. Carroll in his article “The Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility,” CSR aimed to assist executives in understanding their firms’ responsibilities to society, in...

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Free Speech & the Pandemic in China

August 31, 2020

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Guest Contributors Anubhav Das and Winy Daigavane, National University of Advanced Legal Studies In January 2020, the first case of COVID-19 was reported. In the five months since, it has spread all over the world. Around the world, public health officials have enacted stringent measures to mitigate the impact of the virus. However, deaths continue to be on the rise, and countries face...

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Six years after Ferguson protests: no drastic change means no change

August 1, 2020

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By Shuyan Yan (PO ’23) On August 9th, 2014, an 18-year-old Black man, Micheal Brown, was fatally shot by a white police officer,  Darren Wilson. Protests and riots quickly erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, lasting for several weeks. Micheal Brown’s death drew massive public attention to police violence and the use of police force.  Now it’s 2020. Again, an unarmed Black man and a white police...

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How Police Get Away With It: An Evaluation of Police Contracts, Internal Investigations, Qualified Immunity, and Indemnification

July 7, 2020

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By Haidee Clauer (PO ’22) Racism and anti-Blackness have played a long and persistent role in the history of the United States, from its founding to the present. The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Ahmaud Arbery—among countless others—as well as the national movement in response, demand our attention. This article is part of a series that seeks to explore and...

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Responding to COVID-19 in Low-Income Nations

May 11, 2020

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By: Andy Liu (HMC ’23) Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, nations across the world have rapidly intervened to contain the virus’ spread. Much has been made of the different approaches that the world’s developed nations have taken toward containing COVID-19; whether it’s the United States’ federal approach, with individual states having their own containment strategies, South...

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Chinese Exclusion Act in the Age of COVID-19

May 7, 2020

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By: Calla Li (PO ’22) May 6, 2020; marks the 138-year-anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the only piece of immigration legislation in American history to exclude an ethnic group by name. At the time, economic anxiety ran high due to the increasingly fierce competition to find gold in Northern California, causing rising animosity against Chinese laborers for taking White American...

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Food Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Local Food Policies versus Federal Government Policies

May 6, 2020

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By: Elease Willis (PO ’22) As a developed country that places a premium on technological innovation and globalization, the United States has prided itself on having transcended the immediate pressure of satisfying the lower tiers of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, like the physiological need for food. Yet not only is food insecurity a reality for a considerable number of Americans, attaining...

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Xenophobia: An American tradition amidst the coronavirus

May 4, 2020

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By Aditya Bhalla (PO ’23) Over the last few months, the coronavirus pandemic has caused a marked increase in racially motivated attacks and xenophobic sentiment, particularly towards the Asian-American community. As early as January, when the threat of the virus began to seep into media outlets around the world, anti-Asian rhetoric began filtering into the global psyche. French newspaper...

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How COVID-19 could tear the European Union apart

April 21, 2020

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By Christopher Tan (PZ ‘21) In Milan, hospitals have been overwhelmed by a deluge of patients. In Madrid, authorities turned a historic ice-rink into a morgue for the dead. In Paris, officials scramble to find more ventilators for rising numbers of critical cases. With lightning speed, the spread of COVID-19 has devastated European health services and paralyzed continental trade. As borders close...

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Why the “Gay Panic Defense” is Discriminatory

March 24, 2020

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Kelsey Braford (PO ’22) Many people are unaware of the existence of a discriminatory legal strategy dubbed the “gay panic defense.” Uncommon and widely criticized, it is a tactic that asks “a jury to find that a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity/expression is to blame for a defendant’s violent reaction,” according to the LGBT Bar Association. It is used to strengthen a defense...

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