Adjudicating Fake News
On July 30, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump imposed 50% tariffs on imports from Brazil and sanctioned a sitting Brazilian Supreme Court Justice, both partially because of Brazil’s online content moderation decisions. This is an extreme, but not an isolated event: worldwide, legislators and regulators struggle to craft public policies that address problems of disinformation…
May 2026
Regulating the Gatekeepers: Constitutional Limits, Institutional Design, and the Crisis of Legal Education in Ghana
This Article argues that Ghana’s recurring legal education crisis reflects a deeper constitutional failure in the design of professional regulation. When regulatory, educational, and gatekeeping functions are institutionally conflated, discretionary scarcity emerges that courts can constrain but cannot fix. Using Ghana as a case study, the Article shows why judicial intervention— while effective at limiting…
May 2026
Reforming the International Law and Organization of New Vaccines for the World’s Most Vulnerable People
The global system for developing new vaccines against diseases that disproportionately kill and disable the world’s poorest people has become a victim of its own success. As the pace with which safe and effective vaccines against neglected tropical diseases are developed accelerates, the world is increasingly finding itself moving from a situation typified by low…
May 2026
Constitutional Accountability in the Platform Age: A Three-Dimensional Framework for Algorithmic Governance
Algorithmic governance increasingly shapes how information circulates, how norms are enforced, and how democratic decisions are made. Yet constitutional theory lacks the tools to conceptualize accountability in this new environment, where private digital platforms exercise public-like powers with limited oversight. This Article develops a new framework for digital constitutional accountability, structured around three dimensions: epistemic…
May 2026
Recent News and Events
“ALEXA, AM I DEPRESSED?” REGULATING AND PATENTING MENTAL HEALTH CHATBOTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND FRANCE
Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots have rapidly entered everyday life. When users decide to rely on them for mental health guidance, these chatbots begin to function as substitutes for licensed clinicians. Users often treat these systems as safe and confidential, without understanding their technical limits or how their sensitive mental health data is collected, stored, and…
Apr 18 2026
Contractualizing Digital Sovereignty: How China, the UAE, and the United States Embed Censorship and Moderation in Technology Market-Entry Agreements
States increasingly shape digital platform governance not only through public-law rules, but through contractual and infrastructural arrangements that condition market access and operational control. This Article examines how China, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States embed sovereign authority in platform governance through distinct forms of contractual intervention. In China, licensing restrictions require foreign…
Apr 18 2026
The U.K. Bribery Act v. The FCPA: A Comparative Analysis Considering President Trump’s Second Term
The United Kingdom Bribery Act (UKBA) and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) represent two fundamentally different enforcement philosophies to address foreign bribery. Where the UKBA involves an uncompromising strict liability approach to address foreign bribery, the FCPA appears more pragmatic in allowing exceptions for “facilitation payments. The two statutes further diverge significantly in their…
Apr 18 2026
AN UNEASY ARGUMENT AGAINST THE BULLFIGHTS BAN (AND OTHER CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS INVOLVING ANIMALS) IN COLOMBIA
On September 4, the Constitutional Court of Colombia, in ruling C-374 of 2025 (Ruling C-374), unanimously upheld Law 2385 of 2024, which instituted a national ban on bullfights and all activities related to that cultural tradition. In the same ruling, the Court extended the ban to other activities involving cockfights, coleo, and corralejas, despite the…
Oct 23 2025