Law reform

Scope and Contents: This series contains proposals, draft agreements, final agreements, reports, situation briefings, memorandums, talking points, personal reflections, press statements, and correspondence relating to de Waal’s work with the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel on Sudan (AUHIP) from 2009 to 2012. These documents cluster around topics associated with the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the Darfur Peace Agreement as well as other outstanding issues relating to...

Scope and Contents: Submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Abstract: The concept of immutable principles broadly defined as unchangeable, substantive principles which provide a check on a political process has impacted constitutions in two manners. First, the difficulties of developing new constitutions in post-conflict situations has occasionally been alleviated by the usage of immutable principles, the clearest example of...

Scope and Contents: Submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Abstract: Five years after war ravaged the former Yugoslav territory of Kosova/Kosovo, decentralization has emerged as a promising strategy for addressing key challenges to democracy, development, and sustainable peace in the troubled province. The principle of decentralization enjoys widespread support from both of Kosovo's major ethnic groups the Albanians and the...

Scope and Contents: Submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Abstract: The thesis assesses the current debate in the Federal Republic of Germany over the future of military conscription. Included is a discussion of the early nineteenth-century origins of conscription and a focus on the evolution of compulsory military service in Germany both as a military and social issue after the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany....

Scope and Contents: This report empirically analyzes the current dynamics of justice at the local level, identifying priorities for reform according to the expressed needs and perceptions of local litigants.