We plan to develop a number of focus areas, each one of which will be linked to a community of practice. In this way, members in the focus are will be able to organize their own discussions.
Our current focus areas are:
skills
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Focus Areas
The Access to Justice Deficit: Legal Empowerment Can Break the Shackles
5 billion people around the world lack basic access to justice. What’s being done about it?
Featured Post: Lynn Sheehan on The Anti-Corruption Court in Ukraine
Our colleague Lynn Sheehan is Deputy Director of Operations with the EU Advisory Mission in Ukraine. She writes from Kyiv with news of the High Anti-Corruption Court, a permanent body that completes a constellation of specialized anti-corruption bodies in the criminal justice chain.
Task Force on Justice – Is Its Report Useful for Practitioners?
Editors’ Note: Since this post was first drafted, justice issues have been considered at meetings held at the UN General Assembly on September 24-25. We’ll get you an update on those meetings as soon as we can. We would like to hear from you if you were at the meetings. Please reply/comment or contact us […]
Rule of Law: When Force Prevails
Where might prevails over right, does an intellectual framework grounded on ideas about rule of law and access to justice really help us in our work?
Can There Be Justice in Myanmar Without Approval Military Approval??
Frontier, Myanmar’s English-language weekly magazine: “The police force, which is under the military-controlled Ministry of Home Affairs, currently has overbearing influence over government prosecutors and judges, who are currently unable to pursue cases and pass judgements without fear or worry”. Read more about the complex underpinnings of Myanmar’s justice system.
Rule of Law vs Law and Order
Rule of Law Defined Here’s what Rachel Kleinfeld says: “Definitions of the rule of law fall into two categories: (1) those that emphasize the ends that the rule of law is intended to serve within society (such as upholding law and order, or providing predictable and efficient judgments), and (2) those that highlight the institutional […]
Rule of Law in the EU
Justine Stefanelli from the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law casts a critical eye over the European Commission’s Blueprint for Action on the Rule of Law.
Stephen Golub – A Foundational Thinker
Legal Empowerment and Access to Justice Stephen Golub has had a huge influence on modern thinking about legal empowerment and access to justice. The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor noted that his thinking about the need to provide the poor with concrete mechanisms to claim their rights and alleviate their poverty made him […]
Zambia: Rule of Law
The Mast, July 14: The Chief Justice of Zambia describes the rule of law in Zambia.
