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Featured Post: Legal Design and Innovation
Editors’ Note: Time to brush up on our innovation thinking. If you don’t know a rolling cohort from a rolling stone, this Featured Post on Legal Design might be just what you’re looking for. Please pass it on right away to your network. Contact us and we’ll put you in touch with others who share […]
Four Useful Sources
The World Justice Project describes itself as “…an independent, multidisciplinary organization working to advance the rule of law worldwide. It began as an initiative of the American Bar Association. Its Rule of Law Index analyses the rule of law performance of 126 countries, providing useful benchmarks for measuring the progress of reform initiatives. Now, its Global Insights on […]
World Justice Project: Access to Justice Portal
The World Justice Project has been at the forefront of the effort to advance evidence-based analysis of access to justice issues. An Analytical Tool for Policy Makers Now, they have put some of their most important work on their Global Insights on Access to Justice portal. Would it help in your work to know how […]
India: Lawyers Needed for Citizenship Justice in Assam
Lawyers Needed in Assam Devex reports some staggering numbers in India’s state of Assam where 1.9 million people have been excluded from the final National Register of Citizens. 32.9 million people applied to be included on the list. Within the next four months the excluded will have to apply to a ‘Foreigners Tribunal’ to have […]
Namati to Invest $45 million to Accelerate Justice
Namati will invest $45 million USD to accelerate justice around the world. It will work in close partnership with members of its network to take on three urgent issues – health justice, land and environmental justice, and citizenship justice – in six countries: Kenya, India, Myanmar, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, and the United States. Namati’s Global […]
Turkey: Government Promises Stronger Democracy
Turkish Minister of Justice Abdülhamit Gül said on Sunday, in a public message over the beginning of the judicial year, Turkey aims to strengthen democracy and expand freedoms, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. The judiciary will be cautious.
