The reform of criminal justice systems has become a priority for the international community in its efforts to assist transitional and post-conflict societies in re-establishing the rule of law. ...

In the rule of law, advisors sometimes overlook the fact that the State was part of the problem in the first place, and that—seen through a human rights lens—the State still is the problem. A...

Judges are the axle on which the wheels of justice turn. They manage pre-trial proceedings, mediate settlement conferences, rule on motions, conduct bench trials, supervise jury trials, take guil...

The Sumerian people from what is now Iraq produced the earliest known example of a written set of criminal laws. Their code, created around 2100-2050...