This article attempts to explain why Uruguayan judges have lagged behind judges in Chile and Argentina in the prosecution of the military for human rights ...

Women Judges in Afghanistan: An Interview with Anisa Rasooli Antonio De Lauri CMI Insight Woman Judg

In long-established western democracies, women have made inroads as judges only during the past few decades. In post-conflict and transitional developing ...

Title: The Prosecution of Military Officers in Latin America This article analyses why judges in Argentina and Chile since the mid-1990s have displayed ...

Long delays in the resolution of court cases are a common problem in both developing and developed countries and impede anti-corruption efforts. Technical ...

Judging the price of life: cost considerations in right-to-health litigation Octavio L. Motta Ferra

The Indonesian Court for Corruption Crimes, or Tipikor court, has handled corruption cases for more than a decade. Initially there was only one Tipikor ...

This study seeks to assess the formal provisions of the law regulating the appointment and conditions of service of judges across eleven legal systems ...

This project was part of an EU programme in Albania which was established to reduce corruption and other forms of economic crime, and to strengthen local ...

How can we understand and ensure accountability for heinous crimes linked to power structures in society - including core international crimes such as genocide and crimes against humanity?

This dissertation is about judicial independence. It deals with two interrelated questions. The first half of the dissertation argues, based on a statistical ...

PhD-candidate studying female judges in Haiti

Asset declarations serve in many countries as a tool for detecting and preventing illicit enrichment and conflicts of interests among public officials. ...

Detained in solitary confinement, tortured, exiled and eventually blown up by a car bomb. From an early age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa. Later in life he helped draft South Africa's post-apartheid Constitution, and served as a member of the Constitutional Court for fifteen years. Sachs talks to host Siri Gloppen about his life and role as a judge in the formative years of post-apartheid South Africa.

Current approaches to regulating conflicts of interest, often encouraged by international anti-corruption standards, are commonly judged by how restrictive ...

Excerpt from Literary Salon with Judge Albie Sachs at Bergen Resource Centre for International Development 15 March.

In the ongoing struggle against corruption and related offences, many countries have established specialised anti-corruption institutions, distinct from ...

This comparative analysis of the judiciaries in Tanzania and Zambia, finds that neither has developed a strong accountability function vis-à-vis their ...

This comparative analysis of the judiciaries in Tanzania and Zambia, finds that neither has developed a strong accountability function vis-à-vis ...

Detained in solitary confinement, tortured, exiled and eventually blown up by a car bomb. From an early age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa.