By Aarti Aggarwal, Jindal Global Law School India, as a country, confronts a number of challenges to its internal security. Of those, the threat posed by Naxalism—a Maoist insurrection active in the eastern half of the country for over four decades now—is the most concerning. Commonly known as “Naxalites” (hereinafter referred to as “Maoists”) after the district of Naxalbari in West Bengal, an...
*This is an abridged version of an honors senior thesis presented and approved in December 2016. Introduction My research question was, initially, quite simple: what does the fathers’ rights movement look like in Massachusetts? While the movement has been active in the state for nearly 20 years, there is very little known about it in both academic literature and the media more generally. I wanted...
By Aarti Aggarwal (Jindal Global Law School ’18, India) In one of the most notorious cases of corporate tax avoidance of recent times, the European Commission has ordered Ireland to recover EUR 13 billion in back taxes plus interest from Apple, after ruling that a special tax arrangement for Apple to route profits through Ireland was illegal state aid.[1] This landmark decision has...
Phoebe Alpern (PO ‘20) Against the grim track record of ethnic cleansing, sectarian violence, and unmitigated genocide that defined United Nations interventions of the 1980s and 90s, the UN mission in East Timor was a debatable success: a rapid mobilization that spawned a transparent democratic referendum, restored thousands of refugees to their homes, and embraced the promise of self...
