Author: Tyler Heneghan
By: Shirley Duquene (BUSL ’21) Forced labor generates an estimated $150 billion dollars of profits annually; these illegal proceeds are likely to pass through the banking system. Thus, it is crucial that financial institutions identify, monitor, and report transactions suspected to involve forced labor proceeds both in order to comply with anti-money laundering laws and to assist […]
By: Tally Kritzman-Amir On June 22, 2020, The Canadian Federal Court declared the US-Canada Safe Third Country Agreement unconstitutional. Under this agreement, which has been implemented since 2004, persons arriving into Canada from the US through land port of entries would be ineligible to apply for asylum. This blog post seeks to put this decision […]
By: Scott L. Greer This blog post is based on a book talk and discussion hosted by the Center for the Study of Europe of Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies on April 14, 2020. The book in question is Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health by Sandro […]