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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.
Read →brief · May 2026
Consent and digital identity
Omar Faraj
Consent does difficult work in modern data law: it is asked to legitimate uses of personal data that are neither knowingly authorised in any meaningful sense nor practically refusable. This Brief examines the operational realities of consent in digital-identity systems and proposes procedural standards that recognise consent's limits while preserving its protective function.
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 →report · May 2026
Surveillance, privacy, and the rule of law
Omar Faraj
This Report examines how surveillance authorisations are reviewed in practice across five jurisdictions, focusing on the procedural standards that govern judicial or quasi-judicial approval. The Report finds that the formal availability of prior judicial authorisation correlates weakly with the substantive rigour of review, and identifies the institutional conditions under which procedural review functions as a meaningful constraint rather than as a rubber stamp.
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