Journal on World Affairs, UCLAAli is a senior pursuing Political Science with an emphasis on International Relations at the University of California Los Angeles and is looking to pursue a field of law by obtaining a J.D. in either real estate, immigration, or the automotive industry regarding EPA regulations. He hopes to bring to the forefront historic issues of redlining and gender disparities pertaining to home-ownership.
When international leaders meet in Glasgow this fall, they need to arrive not merely with a resolve to ramp up their individual efforts. Even more urgently, they need to be willing to apply significant political and legal pressure on one another, collectively, to establish a much stronger legal framework than the Paris Agreement currently demands of its signatories.
By May of 2020, at least six class-action lawsuits had been filed against the Chinese government in federal U.S. courts. However, early on in the wave of lawsuits, legal experts were already responding to the discourse around this possible route of action and informing the public that such suits would be symbolic at best.
Journal on World Affairs, UCLA