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President Obama can declassify a long-awaited report written by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the CIA's rendition, interrogation, and detention program.

Judge Yassmin Barrios presided over the genocide trial of Guatemala's former dictator Efrain Rios Montt. Now she is under attack by his allies.

The number of law schools offering their students the chance to do community-based practical work is expanding dramatically.

Justice and the rule of law are delivered through a broad array of institutions, so a unitary focus on ‘the justice sector’ in setting development targets is unlikely to deliver meaningful results.

The countries of the world are drawing up development priorities for the next decade and beyond. Here's a brief introduction to the process.

The chairs of the UN’s ten human rights treaty bodies added their voices to the growing calls to recognize the intrinsic connection between sustainable development and the rule of law.

What good is international law if states don’t follow it? Should we care about international courts if governments don’t do what they say? A new book looks at how to connect court judgments and real change.

Read a primer on the just-released United Nations report on the future shape of the world’s development strategy after 2015.

A case from Belarus helps broaden the interpretation of the right of every citizen to take part in the conduct of public affairs.

World leaders have an opportunity at the United Nations this year to declare that the application of law should be free of the taint of political interest.

A new approach to holding governments accountable to the citizens they are supposed to serve. Call it "legal empowerment."

The International Criminal Court tries the most notorious war criminals. But it can only handle a finite number of cases, leaving thousands of crimes unpunished. The Fizi rape trial shows how local courts can fill the void.

The Obama Administration has gone out of its way to avoid appearing too insistent in calling on other governments to expand democracy and human rights. Then came Egypt.

The Netherlands Supreme Court assigned liability for three deaths at Srebrenica to Dutch UN troops, in a ruling with implications for the immunity of UN-mandated peacekeepers.

Villagers in Margo Sari, a small village in Indonesia, are using the law to fight corruption and secure their future.

More African states need to take steps to make the use of torture a criminal offense, and to set up preventative monitoring and other measures to eradicate its use.

Africa's human rights commission has launched its first model law—on access to information—and its first general comments—on the interpretation of an aspect of women's rights.

The number of pending applications before the court is down is down. But a close read of the statistics tell a more unsettling story.

As the push continues to create a new global development framework, the world must recognize the essential role played by the rule of law.