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"Legal Development and Human Rights in Uruguay: 1985-2002"
Journal Article | Jun 2007
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 ...
legal development, human rights, uruguay, Uruguay
Women Judges in Afghanistan: An Interview with Anisa Rasooli
CMI Insight | Jul 2020
Women Judges in Afghanistan: An Interview with Anisa Rasooli Antonio De Lauri CMI Insight Woman Judg
Woman Judges, Anisa Rasooli, Judicial system, Afghanistan
Women on the Bench: The Role of Female Judges in Fragile States
Project | Jan 2017 - Dec 2021
In long-established western democracies, women have made inroads as judges only during the past few decades. In post-conflict and transitional developing ...
Søramerikanske militære for retten: Kva skal til?
Journal Article | Jan 2003
Title: The Prosecution of Military Officers in Latin America
This article analyses why judges in Argentina and Chile since the mid-1990s have displayed ...
Latin America, human rights, judicial independence, justice, military prosecution, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay
Uncorking the bottlenecks: Using political economy analysis to address court delay
U4 Brief | Aug 2015
Long delays in the resolution of court cases are a common problem in both developing and developed countries and impede anti-corruption efforts. Technical ...
Civil Society, Courts, Justice, Political Economy, Corruption, India, Philippines
Judging the price of life: cost considerations in right-to-health litigation
Book Chapter | Oct 2014
Judging the price of life: cost considerations in right-to-health litigation Octavio L. Motta Ferra
Specialised anti-corruption courts: Indonesia
U4 Brief | Jul 2016
The Indonesian Court for Corruption Crimes, or Tipikor court, has handled corruption cases for more than a decade. Initially there was only one Tipikor ...
anti-corruption courts, Special Criminal Court, specialised anti-corruption bodies, justice, Indonesia
Malawi
Book Chapter | Jan 2006
This study seeks to assess the formal provisions of the law regulating the appointment and conditions of service of judges across eleven legal systems ...
Law, Courts, Judicial system, Africa: Malawi
Lectures on corruption and procurement
Project | Sep - Dec 2003
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 ...
Corruption, procurement, Albania
Accountability for leadership participation in universal crimes and the role of judges
Event | 22 Apr 2014
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?
Judicial independence: A key to justice: An analysis of Latin America in the 1990s
Report in External Series | Jan 2002
This dissertation is about judicial independence. It deals with two interrelated questions. The first half of the dissertation argues, based on a statistical ...
judicial reform, judicial independence, human rights, courts, prosecution, military, judges, international law, Americas: Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Latin America
The case for asset declarations in the judiciary: Identifying illicit enrichment and conflicts of interests
U4 Brief | May 2014
Asset declarations serve in many countries as a tool for detecting and preventing illicit enrichment and conflicts of interests among public officials. ...
justice
The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law
News | 23 Jun 2010
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.
South-Africa
Regulating conflicts of interest in challenging environments: The case of Azerbaijan
U4 Issue | Feb 2010
Current approaches to regulating conflicts of interest, often encouraged by international anti-corruption standards, are commonly judged by how restrictive ...
political corruption, Azerbaijan
Literary Salon with Albie Sachs (video)
News | 24 Mar 2010
Excerpt from Literary Salon with Judge Albie Sachs at Bergen Resource Centre for International Development 15 March.
Special anti-corruption courts: Basic choices to be made
News | 15 Dec 2016
In the ongoing struggle against corruption and related offences, many countries have established specialised anti-corruption institutions, distinct from ...
Anti-corruption courts
The Accountability function of the courts in Tanzania and Zambia
Journal Article | Jan 2003
This comparative analysis of the judiciaries in Tanzania and Zambia, finds that neither has developed a strong accountability function vis-à-vis their ...
Tanzania, Zambia, courts, judiciary, accountability, democracy, democratic consolidation, rule of law, judicial independence, Africa: Tanzania, Zambia
The accountability function of the courts in Tanzania and Zambia
Book Chapter | Jan 2004
This comparative analysis of the judiciaries in Tanzania and Zambia, finds that neither has developed a strong accountability function vis-à-vis ...
Tanzania, Zambia, courts, judiciary, accountability, democracy, democratic consolidation, rule of law, judicial independence, Africa: Tanzania, Zambia
The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law
Event | 15 Mar 2010
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.
South Africa