Media Relations Office

Sarah Kreps, a professor of government and expert in technology, international politics and national security, comments on the role, independence and oversight of Facebook's own Oversight Board. 

Law, Government & Public Policy

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Ian Kysel, Maria Cristina Garcia, and Chiara Galli comment on President Biden's significant increase to the refugee cap and efforts to reunite migrant families as part of the administration's immigration strategy.

Law and Policy

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This week, Malawi’s Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty ordering the re-sentencing of at least 37 people known to be under a death sentence. Sandra Babcock, director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide and a partner in the Malawi Resentencing Project, has worked on capital cases in Malawi since 2007. She calls the ruling “historic,” and adds that Malawi has now joined the growing ranks of abolitionist countries where high courts have concluded that the death penalty violates the right to life.

Law School

International

Law and Policy

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On Thursday, the Biden administration announced economic sanctions on Russia in retaliation for alleged election interference and cyberattacks.    Nicholas Mulder, assistant professor of history at Cornell University, studies the origin and effects of economic sanctions. His first book “The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War” is forthcoming with Yale University Press.

International

Arts and Sciences

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Top officials from the U.S. and China will meet in Anchorage on Thursday and Friday for the first high level summit after President Biden took office. Cornell University experts, Allen Carlson and Robert Hockett, are available to discuss the political and economic implications of the summit.

International

Arts and Sciences

Law School

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Sital Kalantry, professor of law at Cornell University, says that censoring social media is just one of several troubling developments related to the Indian government’s recent crackdown on free speech.

International

Law and Policy

Law School

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As protesters in Myanmar continue to rally against the military coup that reversed last November’s election, members of the United Nations are renewing their efforts to address the crisis. Magnus Fiskesjö, says that in claiming election fraud, generals seem to have taken a cue from recent events in the U.S.

International

Arts and Sciences

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Cornell University experts are available to weigh in on Congress taking up either Biden's immigration wide-ranging bill or smaller pieces of legislation, offering historical, legal and labor perspectives.

Law and Policy

Industrial and Labor Relations

Arts and Sciences

Law School

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Sarah Kreps, technology, international politics and national security expert, and Nathan Matias, algorithm and digital technology scholar, comment on Facebook's announcement that it will begin limiting political content on its newsfeeds.

Arts and Sciences

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Ian Kysel, professor of law and co-director of the Asylum and Convention Against Torture Appellate Clinic, and Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, comment on President Biden's new immigration executive orders.

Law and Policy

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