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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 →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 →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 →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.
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