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Introductory Remarks by Frauke Lachenmann and Astrid Wiik

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2019

Frauke Lachenmann  and
Astrid Wiik
Frauke Lachenmann
Affiliation:
Dr. Frauke Lachenmann, Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law in Heidelberg: [email protected].
Astrid Wiik
Affiliation:
Dr. Astrid Wiik, Assistant Professor (Habilitand) at Heidelberg University Law Faculty and Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, Heidelberg, Germany: [email protected].
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The theme of the 2018 ASIL Annual Meeting was “International Law in Practice,” and nowhere does international law become more practical than in the attempt to rebuild and/or stabilize fragile and post-conflict states through the means of law. Over the last two decades, the rule of law has become a veritable panacea for the international community. As the World Justice Project claimed in 2014, “[w]here the rule of law is weak, medicines fail to reach health facilities, criminal violence goes unchecked, laws are applied unequally across societies, and foreign investments are held back.” The rule of law is no longer just a political ideal of checking power, it is also increasingly “a transnational industry worth multiple billions of dollars.” Multiple state donors, international organizations and nongovernmental organizations are involved in the business of building the rule of law.

Type
New Approaches to International Rule of Law Assistance
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 112 , 2018 , pp. 253 - 255
Copyright
Copyright © by The American Society of International Law 2019 

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Footnotes

This panel was convened at 1:00 p.m., Friday, April 6, 2018, by its moderators, Frauke Lachenmann of the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law and Astrid Wiik of Heidelberg University, who introduced the panelists: Alejandro Alvarez of the UN Executive Office of the Secretary-General; Ian Hurd of the Northwestern University Department of Political Science; and Veronica Taylor of Australia National University College of Asia and of the Pacific.

References

1 World Justice Project, Rule of Law Index 2014, available at https://worldjusticeproject.org/sites/default/files/documents/RuleofLawIndex2014.pdf.

2 Versteeg, Mila & Ginsburg, Tom, Measuring the Rule of Law: A Comparison of Indicators, 42 L. & Soc. Inquiry 100 (2017)Google Scholar.

3 Veronica Taylor, Regulatory Rule of Law, in Regulatory Theory: Foundations and Applications 396 (Peter Drahos ed., 2017).

4 See USAID, U.S. Foreign Aid by Country, at https://explorer.usaid.gov/cd/AFG.

5 See http://www.bmz.de/de/laender_regionen/asien/afghanistan/index.html.

6 See AIDDATA, Financing to the SDGs, Version 1.0, at http://aiddata.org/data/financing-to-the-sdgs-dataset.

7 David Marshall, Introduction, in The International Rule of Law Movement: A Crisis of Legitimacy and the Way Forward, at xiv (David Marshall ed., 2014).