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, […]
The Merits of Non-State Justice: An Effective Mechanism for a Stable Afghanistan
Dr. Neamatollah Nojumi has over twenty years of executive policy analysis on state-building, and conflict transformation, legal reforms and democratization. He is affiliated with George Mason University and number of accredited institutions. He worked as a Senior Advisor for government and non-government organizations in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Southwest and Central Asia, […]
The Boundaries of Tradition: An Examination of the Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Act
Thuto Thipe is a researcher with the Centre for Law and Society at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research areas include governance systems and the state’s role in constructing group identities. Her research has contributed to policy development, legislative reform and litigation. Click here to access a PDF version of this article. […]
Rebuilding Communities after Violent Conflict: Informal Justice Systems and Resource Access
Sandra F. Joireman is the Weinstein Chair of International Studies and Professor of Political Science the University of Richmond. She received her A.B. in Anthropology and Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis and M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in the study of property […]