Unmuting Immutability: How Strict Scrutiny for Transgender People is Changing the Game

On April 13th, Judge Marsha J. Pechman, a U.S. District Judge in the Western District of Washington, released the opinion in the latest saga of the Transgender military ban[1]. In keeping with the reasoning used by other judges… Read More

United States vs. Everybody, a comparative analysis of gun laws in America and various countries around the world  

The United States has come under fire recently for their gun control laws (no pun intended); with the deadliest mass shooting in the country’s history happening this past October (Las Vegas), and with the tragic school shooting at… Read More

The South China Sea Disputes: A clash of international law and historical claims

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), whose most recent charter came into force in November of 1994, constitutes the current basis of international law in the South China Sea disputes (UNCLOS, 2016). Long… Read More

A United Korea

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author’s and do not necessarily reflect the position of JLIA, Penn State Law, School of International Affairs, or Pennsylvania State University. As the Winter Olympics… Read More

The Avtomat Kalashnikov Model of Year 1947

  Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author’s and do not necessarily reflect the position of JLIA, Penn State Law, School of International Affairs, or Pennsylvania State University.   In examining… Read More