Jurist.com, directed by Professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is an excellent website providing legal news from around the world. The following weekly sample includes an important conference by international prosecutors in Rwanda, a decision in US federal courts about the assets of former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos.|Full Story
Exploring the conceptual and practical weaknesses of efforts to combat corruption is not enough. The identification of obstacles alone, however useful in itself, would be insufficiently responsive to the considerable challenge of anti-corruption reform. This article takes stock of foundational obstacles and offers some novel directions forward on legal, theoretical, and political levels of reform.|Full Story
Iraq is at a historical crossroads on the bumpy road to democracy. The Constitutional Review Committee (CRC) has all but completed the task assigned to it by the 2005 Constitution under the chairmanship of Sheikh Humam Hamoudi, the delegate of the largest parliamentary bloc, together with Dr. Fouad Masum, the head of the Kurdish bloc.|Full Story
The Council of State (French Conseil d'Etat), known in Lebanon as Majlis al-Shura (in some Arab countries it's called Majlis al-Dawla), has a dual role. It advises government on legislation and legislative drafting, and it sits as the high administrative court in cases where the government, or one of its agencies, is party to a dispute.|Full Story
It is time for a postmortem analysis in Afghanistan. With all the misery that has befallen the wretched peoples of Afghanistan over 40 years of invasions and civil wars, the mess is far from over. By all accounts, the elections were heavily rigged by the president. The "independent" electoral commission's head declaring Karzai the winner before the second round was cancelled.|Full Story
Neither the correct conception or definition nor a precise measurement of corruption speaks to its causes. Without the underlying factors that lead to corrupt practices, we cannot develop an effective strategy to combat corrupt behavior. Three theories - political, economic, and ethical - compete for explanatory power. Each is helpful in understanding corruption. Each is insufficient.|Full Story
Nationals from nearly one-third of the 192 member states of the United Nations met in Damascus in the second week of October to discuss the liberation of the Golan Heights from Israeli occupation and its return to Syria. Together with Golani victims of Israel's 42 years of occupation, an estimated 5,000 researchers, lawyers, politicians, activists, students and.|Full Story
