by Renée Lettow Lerner | Oct 21, 2021 | All, Comparative Law, Criminal Procedure
Note: This is the first post of a three-part series on inquisitorial procedure and its lessons for the U.S. criminal justice system. Part I: The Investigative File A major weakness of the U.S. adversarial criminal system is that often no one but the prosecutor and law...
by Akhilesh Pillalamarri | Sep 20, 2021 | All, Ancient Law, Asia, Comparative Law, History, India, Middle East & North Africa
In the contemporary world, we have grown used to several features of our legal systems. Many of these we take for granted; for example, the legal equality of citizens, the state’s monopoly on violence, and legal homogeneity—the existence of a single legal system...
by Akhilesh Pillalamarri | Aug 12, 2021 | Afghanistan, All, Asia, Comparative Law, National Security, South Asia
The following is an excerpt from an article that appears at The Diplomat magazine. To read the full article, “Afghanistan’s Failed Constitution,” please visit The Diplomat here. Following the successful efforts in 2001 of a United States-led international...
by Michael Friedl | Aug 9, 2021 | All, Comparative Law, Democracy, Elections, Latin America, U.S. Foreign Policy, United Nations
In the night of July 7, 2021 several assailants entered the home of Haitian President Jovenel Moise and assassinated him, apparently without meeting resistance by his guards. Within days of the shooting, several suspects were killed and others arrested, while some...
by Caroline Dumoulin | Jul 12, 2021 | All, Asia, Comparative Law, Covid-19, Human Rights, Labor Law, Middle East & North Africa, Migration Law, Uncategorized
There are an estimated 164 million migrant workers in the world today, approximately 8.5 million of them women, with roughly 19 percent of these women working in the Arab region. Despite these high numbers, due to the private nature of the work causing poor...
by Akhilesh Pillalamarri | Jun 11, 2021 | All, Asia, China, Comparative Law, India, Law of the Sea, Law of War, Middle East & North Africa, National Security, South China Sea, Southeast Asia, Trade, U.S. Foreign Policy
The 21st century is called the “Asian Century” and not without reason. The image below shows the Valeriepieris circle, a hypothetical circle in Asia that contains more than half of the world’s population. In other words, more people live inside the circle than outside...
