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EEOC’s New Transgender Inclusive Policies: How Far Do These New EEO Protections Really Extend?

This article addresses the tough realization that the international application of EEOC’s new landmark decision to extend Title VII protections to transgender employees may be superseded by international anti-LGBT statutes.

by Shauna Madison

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Putin’s Ban on U.S. Adoption: A Poorly Designed Diversion

Russia passed a bill early this year banning all United States adoptions of Russian children in response to America’s Magnitsky Act, which imposed travel and financial restrictions on Russian officials suspected of human rights violations. To justify the bill, President Putin has cited the tragic deaths of a few Russian orphans adopted into the U.S. However, the bill and its justifications have received much criticism in both countries leaving open the question of whether Putin’s reasoning leads to a different purpose altogether.

by Berit Elam

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Patriot Games: Is Domestic Legislation Dooming America’s Russian “Reset” Policy?

Recent laws targeted at Russia have put a big chill on America’s “reset” policy towards relations with Russia. Russia and the United States must resist partisan politics, reset the “reset,” and collaborate as strategic partners to advance common policy goals and ensure long-term improvements in U.S.-Russian relations.

by Alexis Turzan

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Line Drawing in a Time of Change

The United States lags behind world trends in refusing to retroactively apply ameliorative changes in the law for criminal offenders

by Lauren Marie Schweizer

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The E.U.’s Super-Judicial Privacy Regulation Agency: Establishing an international standard for cyber data privacy

The European Commission is expanding its authority in order to protect citizens’ right to online privacy, but in the process is infringing on other sovereign states’ jurisdiction and is making it harder for technological innovators to operate in the E.U.

by Karl Uhlig

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Geo-location Technologies and Sovereign Power to Censor

Geo-location tools provide the technology to censor, but those in power have the responsibility to fight for uncensored access to the Internet for all.

by Lauren Harriman

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Strangers in a Strange Land: Foreign domestic workers and due process in Saudi Arabia’s criminal justice system

Saudi Arabia’s execution of a juvenile housemaid highlights the need for better legal protections for international domestic workers. While global migration flows make it ever easier to work abroad, domestic judicial systems and international labor agreements must act in concert to protect workers’ rights.

by Alexis Turzan

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Patent Over Property Rights: Organic farming threatened by cross-pollination from patented seeds

OSGATA appeals to preemptively protect organic farmers from reasonable apprehension of Monsanto enforcing patent infringement of trace elements of cross pollinated GMO genes.

by Karl Uhlig

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Hate Crimes, Pastors, and the Supreme Court: Is Re-Criminalization of Homosexuality A Possibility in the United States?

In light of increasing apprehension towards growing LGBT inclusion in the U.S., some opponents suggest a harsh remedy: re-criminalization of homosexuality. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court’s recent acceptance of gay-marriage cases and the President’s statements in support may dictate otherwise.

by Shauna R. Madison

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The Next Step in Child Protection: The Global Alliance Against Sexual Child Abuse Online

A perspective on the steps that have been taken toward protecting children from online sexual abuse, as well as the new push for the Global Alliance Against Sexual Child Abuse Online initiative and its projections for the future.

by Brittany Benavides

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THE LAW & GLOBAL JUSTICE FORUM is a student run organization at the University of San Francisco School of Law that seeks to analyze our world based on the principles of equality, solidarity, respect and human rights that encompass our shared humanity. The Forum is comprised of both a blog and article component in which contributors attempt to explore and better understand our increasingly global community from a legal perspective. The mission of the Law and Global Justice Forum is to add to this important global justice conversation.

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LGJF Seeking Article Submissions

The Law & Global Justice Forum is currently seeking submissions of full-length academic articles for publication. Articles must provide a legal perspective on any timely issue relating to global justice.

The deadline for all submissions is Friday, November 9, 2013 at 5:30 pm.� Read More

Introducing Bayview/ Hunters’ Point Community Legal (BHPCL)

A group of recent USF Law alumni are starting a new legal services and community development non-profit up in the Bayview/ Hunters’ Point neighborhood of San Francisco: Bayview/ Hunters’ Point Community Legal (BHPCL).â�¦ Read More

First Staff Meeting, 9/27 at 5:30 pm

This Thursday, September 27th, we will have our first staff meeting.  This is an opportunity to meet your co-editors and authors, begin discussing the expectations and roles of the staff this semester, and take photos for the bulletin board and website.â�¦ Read More



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