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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 →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 →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.
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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