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.

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.

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.