Guest Post by Ted Jonas. On April 30, 2024, just before midnight, I was grabbed from the midst of a massive pro-Europe, anti-Russian demonstration in downtown Tbilisi by a phalanx of masked Georgian police, dragged, beaten, and thrown into an unmarked van. After 30 years in the country, the news that “well-known lawyer” Ted Jonas […]
Constitution Day series | Why the Rule of Law Matters—The View of a U.S. Diplomat (ret.)
Guest Post by Alain G. Norman, MSc, JD September 17th is Constitution Day, a day to remember and celebrate the remarkable American Constitution and Bill of Rights, which have, for some 250 years, served as a touchstone for those “yearning to breathe free,” as the poet put it, both in the United States and around […]
What I Learned About Judicial Independence and Accountability in the United States from Working in Central and Eastern Europe
Guest Post by Jim Moliterno By 2004, when I was invited to participate in my first justice-building project abroad, I had already spent 22 years teaching and writing about lawyer and judicial ethics issues in the US. I was already a tenured, full professor at the College of William & Mary Law School. I thought […]
The Irony of Promoting Administrative Justice
Guest post by Howard Fenton In 1996 I traveled to the newly independent Ukraine to talk with Ukrainian judges about American administrative law. The Ohio Supreme Court had contracted with USAID to provide training to the judges across the full range of American law utilizing Ohio judges and law professors. I volunteered to lecture on […]
