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Evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport

The Judiciary and the Rule of Law in Afghanistan

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Judicature International (2021-22), Vol. 105 No. 3 (2021) | Leaving Afghanistan

The current rule of law crisis has roots in Afghanistan’s 2004 constitution, which created a flawed separation of powers system.

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Leaving Afghanistan

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Judicature International (2021-22), Vol. 105 No. 3 (2021) | Leaving Afghanistan

International organizations are working to evacuate Afghan women judges, who face particular peril under Taliban rule.

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A Global Judicial News Report: November 2021

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Judicature International (2021-22) | An online-only publication

Venezuela Judicial independence threatened A report by the United Nation’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has raised concerns about judicial independence in the country. The […]

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A Personal Journey Through the Rule of Law in the South Pacific

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Judicature International (2021-22) | An online-only publication

Conceptually, the idea that the rule of law is maintained by an independent and impartial judiciary is not difficult to understand. In fact, we really only hear about “the rule […]

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Developing Civil Procedure Rules for European Courts

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Vol. 100 No. 2 (2016) | A Judge in Public Life

ELI is the European Law Institute. Its Secretariat is based in Vienna, Austria; its members include judges, lawyers, law professors, ministry of justice officials, and law firms from the European […]

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Honoring the 2020 & 2021 Recipients of the Bolch Prize

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Vol. 105 No. 2 (2021) | Judicial Independence

The Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School honored the 2020 and 2021 recipients of the Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law during a virtual program hosted by PBS […]

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Judicial Independence: Threats Foreign and Domestic

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Vol. 105 No. 2 (2021) | Judicial Independence

Judicial Independence has so long been a pillar of American government that perhaps it was at one time taken for granted. The idea that politicians would intimidate judges, that judges […]

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A Report from the 2015 United States–United Kingdom Legal Exchange

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Vol. 100 No. 2 (2016) | A Judge in Public Life

INTRODUCTION1 This paper was originally presented at the United Kingdom-United States Legal Exchange in London, England, in September 2015. The Exchange, sponsored by the American College of Trial Lawyers, originated […]

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An Uphill Battle: How China’s obsession with social stability is blocking judicial reform

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Vol. 100 No. 3 (2016) | Who appointed me god?

During the past three years, China has proclaimed a judicial reform campaign that aims to follow the “rule by law” (yifa zhiguo) in civil dispute resolutions. In delivering the 2014 […]

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Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law

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Vol. 105 No. 1 (2021) | The Courts Held

Much attention is paid to our brave new world wrought by algorithms and artificial technology, one in which many societal functions are accelerated and made more efficient — and more […]

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