More than 250 Cuban lawyers received a diploma in international commercial law at a graduation ceremony at the University of Havana on 15 November. ILAC has coordinated the international commercial law course since 2016. The course is implemented by the International…
David Miliband and the global humanitarian aid and development organisation that he heads, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), received the 11th Stockholm Human Rights Award at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, on Monday 4 November 2019. Bestowed annually by the Swedish Bar Association, the International Bar Association (IBA) and…
ILAC Policy Brief #3 The Palestinian court system is subjected to rapid changes that risk causing irreparable damage to the rule of law and access to justice. An independent judiciary is one of the three branches of government and an…
A lot is at stake with the ongoing judicial nominations in Guatemala considering so much ground has already been lost for the rule of law. Guatemala’s Congress was slated to elect an entirely new judiciary in mid-October of this year.…
The International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC) today released a new report entitled Still Looking for Justice: Customary Law, the Courts and Access to Justice in Liberia. In its report, ILAC examines the role of justice providers in Liberia. Under the country’s…
Blog piece by Ulrika Nilsson On the 15thSeptember Tunisians took to the polls in their second free and fair Presidential election since the revolution in 2011. Just as earlier polls had indicated, the vote came out in favour of two populist…
ILAC is pleased to welcome the World Justice Project as one of our rule of law member organisations. Represented by Joel Martinez, Engagement Director of the World Justice Project’s, the organisation was elected to join ILAC at our 2019 Annual General Meeting,…
ILAC is pleased to welcome the Center For Justice and Accountability (CJA) as one of our newest member organisations. CJA was elected to join ILAC in May 2019 at our Annual General Meeting in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1998, CJA is…
Blog piece Richard Sannerholm Sustainable Development Goal 16 has been identified both as an outcome and an enabler of sustainable development [i]. It is not only intuitively appealing but also empirically correct. Try as we might we can’t do without institutions,…
