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COVID-19 and Us Tax Policy: What Needs to Change?
(2020-04)
The COVID-19 Pandemic already feels like a historical turning point akin to Word Wars I and II and the Great Depression. It may signal the end of the second period of globalization (1980-2020) and a change in the relative ...
Who Gets the Ventilator? Disability Discrimination in COVID-19 Medical-Rationing Protocols
(2020-05-27)
The coronavirus pandemic has forced us to reckon with the possibility of having to ration life-saving medical treatments. In response, many health systems have employed protocols that explicitly de-prioritize people for ...
Designing a New Global Refugee Protection System: Part 1 - System
(2022-03-03)
Our system addresses the unmaterialized state responsibilities promulgated in the 1951 Refugee Convention, as well as the failures of our current ad-hoc system: inhumanity, unpredictability, instability, inefficiency, ...
Designing a New Global Refugee Protection System: Part 3 - Supervision
(2022-03-03)
Goal: Create a body capable of monitoring compliance with the new burden/responsibility sharing protocol by conducting reviews and thereby providing an objective metric upon which to base ex-post incentives.
An independent ...
Designing a New Global Refugee Protection System: Part 2 - Process
(2022-03-03)
UNHCR will set the standards and expectations for what refugees are entitled to upon arrival and how to sort individuals who are refugees versus non-refugees.
The allocation and trading of quotas described by working group ...
Designing a New Global Refugee Protection System: Problem Solving Initiative (PSI), University of Michigan Law School
(2022-03-03)
Most states have ratified the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, yet the rights of refugees are routinely ignored. Borders are often closed, and even refugees allowed to enter usually find themselves living in ...