Google to settle gender discrimination class action for $118M
A settlement of USD 118 million was reached Friday in a gender discrimination class action against Google. The class includes some 15,500 female employees who claim that they were undercompensated and denied advancement on the basis of gender. The case, Ellis v. Google LLC, was initiated in 2017 and accounts for Google’s conduct since September [...]
To the Person Sitting in Darkness: Buffalo, Racialized Violence, and International Law
“Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States,” said W.E.B. DuBois once. And now we have another day in the USA, another shooting by a white supremacist. Authorities say that an 18-year-old white male who apparently shot and murdered ten people in Buffalo, New York, was motivated by hatred [...]
Analysis: Did NATO’s Withdrawal From Afghanistan Inspire Vladimir Putin to Invade Ukraine?
In a recent interview on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, former French president, François Hollande established a direct link between NATO’s, and particularly the United States’, withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine. “If Vladimir Putin decided to invade Ukraine, it was not due to a provocation from the Atlantic alliance . [...]
How the United States Can Use Trade Policy to Prevent a New Sino-Russian Alliance
As Joe Biden prepares to warn Xi Jinping against aiding Russia, it is worth considering what the United States can offer China to entice it away as well. In the days since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, many analysts have grappled with the implications of a new world order defined by an ever more [...]
In his epochal, controversial and highly polarizing essay, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is To Increase Its Profits,” published in the New York Times Magazine some 70 years ago, Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman argued against the social responsibility of businesses, and explicitly declared that “the business of business is business.” The shareholder value theory of the [...]
Since February 24, 2022, Ukraine has been defending itself from the acts of aggression by the Russian Federation. The unprovoked invasion by Russia, one of the largest military forces in the world, has resulted in over 1,100 civilian casualties based on the official UN records, with the actual casualties considered to be significantly greater. The [...]
The White House on Thursday announced damaging sanctions against some of Russia’s most prominent oligarchs, broadening its crackdown on the billionaires the White House accuses of enabling Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “War of Choice,” according to a statement released Thursday. Among those subjected to full-blocking sanctions under the latest wave of sanctions is Alisher Usmanov, [...]
Russia’s Use of Force Against Ukraine: An International Law Perspective
The basic international law One of the most fundamental rules of international law is that States are prohibited from using force to resolve their international disputes. Any State that uses force against the territorial integrity or political independence of another State violates this solemn rule of international law. Applying this rule, the use of force [...]
Peace in our Time! Appeasement and Tyranny - Feeding the Crocodile
We all recall the famous photo in 1938 of the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepping off his plane holding up an agreement with Adolf Hitler that averted a possible conflict with Germany. He gave away the Sudetenland and the political independence of Czechoslovakia to do so. Chamberlain proudly declared “peace in our time.” [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) Monday lamented the four-year trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that failed to uncover the complete truth behind the 2017 murders of two UN experts, Zaida Catalán and Michael Sharpe, and their Congolese interpreter and motorbike drivers. Zaida Catalán, a Swedish-Chilean citizen, and Michael Sharpe, an American citizen, were [...]
