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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 →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 →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.
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