South Korea said it would conditionally extend GSOMIA, a military intel-sharing pact signed with Japan on November 22nd. After being signed by the two nations in 2016, the pact allowed Seoul and Tokyo to exchange sensitive military information.
Thanks to America, and to the detriment of India and the world, the end of the World Trade Organization Appellate Body is nigh. This de facto Supreme Court of international trade will breathe its last breath on Dec. 10, 2019. Why should its demise matter? How should its judges interpret disputed terms in a WTO treaty? These two seemingly unrelated questions are directly linked.
Jamie Bess doesn’t know what evidence Jackson County prosecutors had when they charged her with child sex crimes and had her locked in jail for nearly two years.
But it wasn’t enough to take her to trial. One day they dropped the charges. She never got an explanation of what happened.
Like many others, she served time without ever being convicted of anything.
Bess is one of thousands of Missourians who didn’t have enough money to hire a lawyer and found herself, aided only by the state’s weak public defender system, going up against state prosecutors.
KU Law Professor Raj Bhala moderated the China Town Hall on Monday, November 18 at the World Trade Center's Kansas City office. Bhala offered his remarks and lead the group in an interactive discussion.
Gov. Eric Greitens describes his recent run-in with the Missouri Ethics Commission as a minor campaign finance matter.
Greitens, a first-term Republican, agreed to in late April for failing to disclose that his campaign had obtained a list of donors to , a charity he founded in 2007.
But experts in laws governing tax-exempt organizations like The Mission Continues say the legal issues surrounding the donor list may not be so minor. In interviews with The Star, they said they see two possibilities:
Last week, independent production company Magic City Films announced that it would be bringing James Dean back from the dead. Not literally, but digitally, using full-body CGI and existing footage and photos. The Rebel Without a Cause actor will become the secondary lead in a new Vietnamese war film called Finding Jack. The two directors, Anton Ernst and Tati Golykh, said they searched high and low for a suitable actor, but after months of research, James Dean was chosen for the part.
Shareholder proposals urging corporate boards to report on climate‑related risk made headlines in 2017 when they earned majority support from investors at ExxonMobil, Occidental Petroleum, and PPL. The key to this historic vote was the support of the Big Three index fund managers – BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard, which broke with management and cast their votes for the proposals.
On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in Bangkok that India will not join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership deal, as negotiations failed to address New Delhi’s “outstanding issues and concerns”. As many as 16 countries — the 10-nation bloc ASEAN and its six trading partners, including India — were negotiating the mega free-trade RCEP pact. Global trade and domestic policy experts interpret what this means for India going forward, and whether this was an opportunity missed to cementing India’s position as a nation that is open to cross-border business.
In 2018 and 2019, the SEC released the first amendments to Regulation S-K to emerge from its decades-long project to “modernize and simplify” the disclosure obligations that apply to publicly traded companies. New proposed amendments released for public comment in August are currently pending. Largely missing, however, are changes to the basic rules governing how companies provide information to investors about risk, including emerging environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks.
Thirty-two Kansas children died by suicide in 2017, the most recent year numbers are available. This is a 50% increase over the prior year and double the number who took their own lives a decade ago.
These deaths are tragic and this trend alarming.
In response, the Kansas attorney general and the Tower Mental Health Foundation last year formed the Kansas Youth Suicide Prevention Task Force. I volunteered as its co-chairwoman.
