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brief · May 2026
Judicial independence under reform pressure
Hanan Al-Mansouri
Judicial independence is not a static property of a constitutional system but a relationship that must be maintained against the pressure of ordinary politics. This Brief examines three structural features that condition that maintenance, and notes the patterns by which judicial-reform agendas have, in various jurisdictions, hollowed out independence under the language of reform.
Read →journal article · May 2026
Sovereignty and the limits of consent
Omar Faraj، Lina Karam
Modern international law rests, in significant part, on a doctrinal architecture of consent: states are bound by what they have consented to, and not by what they have not. This Journal Article examines the procedural and doctrinal limits of that architecture, with particular attention to the conditions under which consent operates as a legitimate basis for binding obligation and the conditions under which it does not.
Read →report · May 2026
Administrative detention and the limits of executive power
Lina Karam، Tariq Saleh
Administrative detention occupies an ambiguous space between criminal procedure and pure executive action. This Report examines the procedural standards that should govern administrative-detention regimes and the operation of judicial supervision in practice across six jurisdictions, with particular attention to the gap between formal review rights and the practical accessibility of those rights for detained persons.
Read →policy paper · May 2026
Public reasoning and democratic legitimacy
Hanan Al-Mansouri، Sara Habib
Democratic decisions are legitimate not only because of who makes them but because of how the reasoning is conducted, recorded, and made available to scrutiny. This Policy Paper examines the procedural architecture of public reasoning in policymaking and proposes standards for the documentation and disclosure of policy reasoning.
Read →policy paper · May 2026
Institutional design for accountability mechanisms
Yusuf Shaheen، Hanan Al-Mansouri
Accountability mechanisms designed to address past harms must also survive long enough to do their work. This Policy Paper examines the institutional features that condition that survival — independence guarantees, funding architecture, sunset and renewal provisions — and offers a structured framework for assessing accountability-mechanism design.
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