By Akhila Kolisetty [1] Click here to access a PDF Version of this article In recent years, international institutions and organizations have transformed the reform of rule of law, particularly in post-conflict and fragile states, into an industry in its own right. Indeed, over 1,300 rule of law organizations have formed to address this problem, and over […]
The Power of the Keystroke: Is Social Media the Radical Democratizing Force We’ve Been Led to Believe it is?
By Bryan H. Druzin[1] and Jessica Li[2] Click here to access a PDF Version of this article INTRODUCTION Mao Ze Dong famously proclaimed that power comes from the barrel of a gun; however, he also recognized the power of the pen.[3] Today, this pen comes mostly in the form of keystrokes on electronic devices, yet this insight […]
Why Non-Marital Children in the MENA Region Face a Risk of Statelessness
By Betsy Fisher, a Bates Fellow with the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project [1] Click here to access a PDF Version of this article Abstract International law guarantees each individual the right to a nationality. However, this right is not always realized in reality, and the Middle East is home to several of the world’s chronic stateless populations. […]
Godless gods – The Peshawar School Attack and the Formidable Adversary
By Ayesha Malik, Contributing Editor of “islawmix.”[1] Click to access PDF Version of this article It was a day that memorialised the 43rd anniversary of the Instrument of Surrender – a written agreement whereby West Pakistan’s forces surrendered during the revolutionary independence war of 1971 that created the Republic of Bangladesh – marking the fall […]
The State, ‘Hybrid Institutions’ and the Provision of More Accessible Justice in Africa: the Case of Ghana’s Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice
Richard Crook is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK and Honorary Professor of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He took his first degree in Law with Politics at the University of Durham, and obtained his PhD in Government from the London School of Economics in 1977. […]
Promoting Rule of Law in Customary Tribunals in Ghana
Jeanmarie Fenrich is the Director of Special Projects in Africa for the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School. She graduated magna cum laude from Fordham Law School, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Fordham Law Review. She has conducted field research and authored publications on issues related to legal pluralism, […]