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Rule
of Law Assistance Directory
This Directory, developed by the International Law Development
Organization (IDLO) is the first publicly available global
inventory of development assistance activities to further
legal and related institutional reform. Its purpose is to
also serve as a tool to facilitate the exchange of information,
generate debate and discussion, inform constituencies engaged
in efforts to reform law and legal institutions, and promote
harmonization of development strategies.
African Court Decisions
The Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)
collects and publishes legal materials from courts in Southern
and Eastern Africa for free online access. The current collection
includes superior court judgments from
CCJE
Opinion No. 10
In this Opinion, adopted in November 2007, the Consultative
Council of European Judges (CCJE) affirms that as an independent
and impartial judiciary is a fundamental requirement of
the rule of law in a democratic society, the independence
and impartiality of judges need to be guaranteed by a specific
body, a council for the judiciary, in line with the principle
of the separation of powers.
HiiL
ROL Conference Report
This report summarizes the first event in the Hague Institute
for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL) ‘Law of the Future'
series, titled “"Further Conceptualization and Practical
Progress on Building Coherent and Effective Rule of Law
Programmes and Strategies," that took place in October
2007 with more than thirty speakers and commentators and
approximately one hundred additional participants from
all over the world.
Judicial
Selection in US States
This site, developed by the American Judicature Society,
provides access to basic information about and analysis
of the complex and critical issues of selecting state court
judges in the
Doing Business
Law Library
This World Bank resource, which provides access to objective
measures of business regulations and their enforcement across
178 countries and selected cities at the sub national and
regional level, serves is a guide for evaluating regulations
that directly impact economic growth, downloading underlying
laws, making cross-country comparisons, and identifying
good practice reforms.
DomCLIC
This ever-expanding online database, associated with the
Hague Justice Portal, compiles and makes available domestic
jurisprudence from countries all over the world relating
to international criminal law.
International
Courts Data
This web-site provides a portal for practitioners, scholars,
and academics interested in the empirical study of international
courts. Most importantly, the site provides access
to datasets collected by various scholars. This includes
data on compliance, judicial dissents, biographical information
on judges, case-law citations, background information on
judgments, sentencing by criminal courts, reservations made
by states to the jurisdiction of courts, and so on.
Bayefsky.com (United Nations
Human Rights Treaties)
This resource compiles a range of data concerning the application
of the UN human rights treaty system by its monitoring treaty
bodies since their inauguration in the 1970s in order to
enhancing the implementation of international human rights
legal standards by countries around the world.
Countries at the Crossroads Governance
Blog
The relative new Countries at the Crossroads blog features
insights and analysis relating to governance in the emerging
and transitional states that are included in Freedom House’s
Countries at the Crossroads country set.
International
Judicial Monitor