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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 →working paper · May 2026
Methodology in comparative legal research
Yusuf Shaheen
Comparative legal research is a craft, not a formula. This Working Paper sets out the methodological commitments that govern the Institute's comparative work — case selection, source discipline, the limits of comparison, and the conditions under which comparative claims are warranted.
Read →working paper · May 2026
Evidentiary standards in transitional accountability
Sara Habib، Yusuf Shaheen
Transitional accountability mechanisms must construct an evidentiary record under conditions that diverge sharply from ordinary criminal procedure. This Working Paper develops a framework for evidentiary practice in transitional contexts, organised around three commitments: openness about provenance, openness about doubt, and openness about the limits of what evidence can be made to do.
Read →dataset · May 2026
Emergency-powers statutes: a comparative database
Tariq Saleh، Hanan Al-Mansouri، Lina Karam
This Dataset catalogues the codified emergency-powers frameworks of 24 jurisdictions across five regions, with structured tagging across the five procedural features identified in the Institute's companion comparative Report. The Dataset is intended for use by researchers, practitioners, and legislators; it supports both the structured framework for assessing legislative proposals and broader cross-jurisdictional research on emergency-regime design.
Read →commentary · May 2026
What the record shows: a note on evidence
Sara Habib
A short Commentary on the discipline of reading the documentary record — what it permits, what it requires, and the temptations that pull careful work toward easier but less defensible conclusions.
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