The Article looks at transparency in job placement data published by U.S. universities, with a particular focus on law schools and for-profit schools. ...

Heightened competition and considerable illegal fishing by commercial boats, suggest that incentives for corruption in African fisheries are high. Dependence ...

Struggles for social rights - are the courts a suitable battleground? International social and economic rights are recognised as law in many countries, ...

Struggles for social rights – are the courts a suitable battleground? International social and economic rights are recognised as law in many countries, ...

Corrupt judicial systems undermine reforms and are a major impediment to ensuring access to justice and human rights for ordinary citizens across the world, says a new report published by the United Nations Development Programme and U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre on 8 April. Titled, A Transparent and Accountable Judiciary to Deliver Justice for All, the report cites survey data suggesting that the public perceive the judiciary as the second most corrupt public institution, after the police.

Following the adoption of the Senegalese Law on Parity and the subsequent influx of women to the National Assembly, we saw a strong gendered polarisation ...

The 1917 Mexican Constitution, which was adopted after a revolutionary period, decisively changed the history of Latin American constitutional- ism. Gradually, ...

Dos Justicias: Coordinación interlegal e intercultural en Guatemala (Two Justices: Interlegal and Intercultural Coordination in Guatemala) is the ...

In the contemporary writing on state-building in post-conflict situations, remarkably little attention is paid to what it takes to build a state. There ...

Reflecting on recent patterns of judicialization in Latin America, Guillermo O'Donnell pointed to the relationship between judicialization and juridification, ...

Development actors have increasingly recognised the importance of the political determinants of health. One way in which politics and power dynamics impact ...

Albert W. Dzur: Punishment, participatory democracy & the jury Roberto Gargarella Crime, Law & Soci

The right to seek asylum, and the conflicting interests that may arise between the rights of the asylum seeker on the one hand and the recipient country's ...

With the development of REDD (‘Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation’) policies, determining who can claim rights over ...

The presence of business-corruption provokes firms to make choices between legal business approaches and illegal bribery. The outcome of a chosen strategy ...

If one is to assess how local representation changes with the integration of traditional authorities into the local governance system, one must analyse ...

An end to asylum? Temporary protection and the erosion of refugee status Jessica Leigh Schultz Waiti

The issue of so-called “tax havens” is controversial and has been on the international political agenda with interest peaking at the G20 meeting ...

While once considered solely a concern of law enforcement agencies; money laundering, tax evasion and secrecy jurisdictions are now perceived as important ...

The Judicialisation of Politics in Latin America Bruce M. Wilson,Camila Gianella Routledge Handbook