Fighting Human Trafficking: Blurred Lines Between Criminalization & Protection

Despite the humanitarian goals of landmark legislation and other anti-trafficking initiatives, the state responses to human trafficking has followed suit with the central consequence of state responses to illicit flows: unintended consequences that fuel circumvention and inflict harm on the wrong actors. Where do these anti-trafficking policies fall short and what can policymakers do to mitigate unintended consequences?

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A Broken History Continued: What Shutdowns Could Mean for Reservation Communities

This past October, the looming threat of a government shutdown revealed a turbulence in essential federal funding for Native American reservations. This threat to healthcare, energy, and other essential services perpetuates a history of broken treaties and may indicate a violation of established laws outlining federal support for indigenous populations.

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Ripples in the Terraform: Judges Rakoff and Torres Disagree Over Whether Exchange-Based Sales of Tokens Are Investment Contracts (Part 2 of 3)

In the second part of this three-part series, Professor Ari Gabinet dives further into the cases of SEC v. Ripple Labs, Inc. and SEC v. Terraform Labs Pte. LTD, providing a discussion about whether to classify cryptocurrency or digital tokens as “investment contracts”. 

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