16 April 2023
Families of victims of enforced disappearance in Algeria hold peaceful protests once a week in Algiers. 2019. Photo © Christian Als/Panos Pictures. Source: REDRESS

Truth without Justice? Law in the Face of Mass Crimes

By Julie Saada Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, many abuses have been committed according to an independent United Nations commission(1)The […]
16 April 2023
Signature de l'accord de paix entre le gouvernement colombien et les FARC, le 26 septembre 2016 à La Havane. Credits : Gobierno de Chile CC BY 2.0, via Wikipedia

Transitional Justice and Property: Inextricably Linked

By Helena Alviar Garcia ‘In the grand bargain struck between the apartheid government and the A.N.C., headed by Nelson Mandela, a transfer of power was […]
12 February 2022

Enforcing Constitutions: A Democratic Undertaking?

In his recently published Comparative constitutional litigation. A critical introduction to constitutional procedural law (LJDG, June 2021), law professor Guillaume Tusseau advances the undertaking he […]
16 March 2021

Writing the History of Our Laws

New Trends, New Methods by Frédéric Audren, Law School In 2017, the tribes living along the banks of the Whanganui river, the third-largest in New […]
16 November 2020

When Constitutional Law Imagines Foreigners

A Comparative Cultural Analysis of Columbian and American Jurisprudence by Louis Imbert Foreigners are not exempt from the vision of the law proposed by American […]
3 July 2020

How Private International Law Reveals our Relationship to the Other

How does private international law structure and reveal our relationship to alterity? How does this discipline, which may appear to be far-removed from both national […]
1 July 2020

How Private international Law Reveals our Relationship to the Other

How does private international law structure and reveal our relationship to alterity? How does this discipline, which may appear to be far-removed from both national […]
13 February 2020
Dilemne moral - Crédits : Jorgen Mcleman via Shutterstock

Public Deontology: From Principles to Practices

The growing demand for deontology is affecting an increasing number of professions and missions, from politicians, civil servants and medical professions to journalists and scientists. […]
10 July 2019
Title: Iron White Man, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show

Indian lessons

Louis Assier-Andrieu took his first steps in research alongside Claude Lévi-Strauss. As an anthropologist, and then historian, sociologist, and lawyer, he has long conducted field […]