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Rule of Law for Development Program Loyola University Chicago School of Law Rule of Law for Development Program (PROLAW)

PROLAW is a unique, one academic year master's program offered by Loyola's School of Law. It prepares professionals to advance the rule of law throughout society and across sectors, at home and abroad. Although the course will give students sound understanding of theory, it is first and foremost practice-oriented.

We are now accepting applications for Fall 2027!Want to help change the laws that shape people's lives? ⚖️🌍 Join PROLAW ...
13/10/2026

We are now accepting applications for Fall 2027!

Want to help change the laws that shape people's lives? ⚖️🌍 Join PROLAW to gain the practical skills to design and lead law reforms that drive real change in communities worldwide.
- Two tracks: LLM for lawyers, Master of Jurisprudence (MJ) for non-lawyers.
- Learn from practitioners with multijurisdictional experience.
- Join an alumni network across 65+ countries.
- Study online, with a 15 week term at Loyola Rome (Italy)

📅 Apply by: August 1, 2027; Classes start: August 30, 2027
💰 Scholarships available
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We're capping off our series with an author interview.Alongside her review of Professor Rumu Sarkar's International De...
09/10/2026

We're capping off our series with an author interview.

Alongside her review of Professor Rumu Sarkar's International Development Law: Rule of Law, Human Rights & Global Finance (3rd ed., Springer 2025), Hellen Mutellah sat down with Professor Sarkar herself.

When asked about the persistent gap in enforcement, Sarkar didn't soften it: "Adherence to legal judgments ultimately rests on an act of faith in the rule of law."

🎙️“We're just getting started” A conversation on International Development Law, Corruption and the Future of Global Finance https://bit.ly/3Vu6v3z

Transparency, participation, anti-corruption: these show up in nearly every development law text as principles. Hellen M...
07/10/2026

Transparency, participation, anti-corruption: these show up in nearly every development law text as principles. Hellen Mutellah's review asks the question that actually matters: what makes any of them enforceable?

Mutellah reviews Professor Rumu Sarkar's International Development Law: Rule of Law, Human Rights & Global Finance (3rd ed., Springer 2025), drawing on emerging Global South jurisprudence and her own prosecutorial background to press the book's normative framework toward enforcement—asking how these principles become remedies rather than aspirations.

📖 Rule of Law, Corruption, and the Limits of Accountability in International Development Law https://bit.ly/4huNqaa

AI is already touching courts, corruption enforcement, and criminal justice systems. The rule-of-law question isn't whet...
05/10/2026

AI is already touching courts, corruption enforcement, and criminal justice systems. The rule-of-law question isn't whether it can help, it's what happens when governments can't audit the systems making the decisions.

Monita Varence reviews Artificial Intelligence, Governance and Sustainable Development: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (eds. Imad Antoine Ibrahim, Jon Truby, Paolo Davide Farah), which examines AI's relationship to Sustainable Development Goal 16: governance, access to justice, corruption, criminal justice, social media, and data systems.

Varence's core argument: AI can support rule of law institutions only where legal, ethical, and institutional safeguards come first. Her sharpest focus is the Global South, where limited technical and regulatory capacity can leave governments dependent on opaque systems they cannot fully audit, turning a technological risk into a governance and sovereignty problem.

📖 Rule of Law or Rule the World: Artificial Intelligence, SDG 16, and the Risks of Technocracy in the Global South https://bit.ly/4hwJgxc

When governments can't or won't act, corporations increasingly step in. That's not a footnote to governance anymore, it'...
02/10/2026

When governments can't or won't act, corporations increasingly step in. That's not a footnote to governance anymore, it's a structural feature of it.

Ayesha Safdar reviews Matteo Gatti's Corporate Power and the Politics of Change, which traces how corporations exercise governing power, through socioeconomic advocacy and, at times, outright government substitution, when public institutions fall short.

Safdar credits Gatti's framing of corporate governing as structural rather than ideological. But she presses on the limit: because this kind of governing is discretionary, selective, and precarious, it can fill governance gaps without providing the stability, generality, or accountability the rule of law actually requires.

Gatti's proposed remedy, mandatory disclosure, is modest by design. Safdar reads that modesty as consistent with the book's own argument, not a flaw in it. The question her review leaves us with: what happens when private actors govern without public obligation?

📖 Not the Cure: Corporate Governing as the Symptom of Rule of Law Decay https://bit.ly/4rELsrc

Bringing former rebels into electoral politics seems to work as conflict prevention. Whether it works as justice is a se...
30/09/2026

Bringing former rebels into electoral politics seems to work as conflict prevention. Whether it works as justice is a separate question.

Boniface Ikenna Ezenwobi reviews Carrie Manning, Ian O. Smith, and Özlem Tuncel's Parties, Politics, Peace: Electoral Inclusion as Peacebuilding. The book's core finding holds up: former rebel groups that enter electoral politics rarely return to armed conflict.

Ezenwobi accepts that finding but asks the harder questions it leaves open: Which armed groups should qualify for inclusion? What's owed to victims? How do democracies stop former rebels from using elections to consolidate power? And why does political-party financing get so little attention?

His conclusion: participation without accountability can produce new forms of exclusion and capture.

📖 A Critical Review of Parties, Politics, Peace: Electoral Inclusion as Peacebuilding https://bit.ly/4yjlT1n

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What if delayed justice isn't a failure of the system but a function of it?Irene Were reviews Ceylan Begüm Yıldız's Stat...
28/09/2026

What if delayed justice isn't a failure of the system but a function of it?

Irene Were reviews Ceylan Begüm Yıldız's State Violence and Legal Accountability: The Wait for Justice, which uses the killing of Berkin Elvan and the long legal process that followed to show how procedural delay can itself become a form of state power.

Were's sharpest proposition: impunity doesn't only happen when law is absent. It can happen through law's own operation. Her review pushes back on purely structural accounts of state violence, insisting that judges, prosecutors, police officers, and institutional leaders make choices, and accountability begins with naming who keeps justice waiting.

📖 Delay as State Violence https://bit.ly/4hlsnoU

A constitution can guarantee judicial independence on paper. That's not the same as courts actually having it.Abdikariim...
25/09/2026

A constitution can guarantee judicial independence on paper. That's not the same as courts actually having it.

Abdikariim Daud reviews Judicial Independence in Transitional Democracies (eds. Nauman Reayat, Rhona K. M. Smith, Moohyung Cho), which separates de jure independence (what the law says) from de facto independence (what actually happens in the courtroom). Political incentives, institutional culture, executive influence, and weak accountability can all hollow out independence that looks solid on paper.

Daud pushes further: in fragile and post-conflict states, informal justice systems, poverty, and insecurity shape judicial independence just as much as constitutional text does, and deserve more attention than they get.

📖 Paper Guarantees: Judicial Independence Between De Jure Promise and De Facto Practice https://bit.ly/4yeRwZG

Democratic backsliding doesn't always start with a constitutional crisis. Sometimes it starts with a budget line.Tremar ...
23/09/2026

Democratic backsliding doesn't always start with a constitutional crisis. Sometimes it starts with a budget line.

Tremar Caleb Smith reviews Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva and Alexandre de Ávila Gomide's Public Policy in Democratic Backsliding, arguing that democratic erosion is operational before it is constitutional. Through budgets, staffing, enforcement, and administrative procedure, governments can weaken the force of law without ever repealing it.

Smith's review reframes administrative capacity itself as rule of law infrastructure — because a law that can't be implemented, monitored, or enforced is a law in name only.

📖 The Quiet Reworking of Power: Democratic Backsliding Through Policy and the Rule of Law https://bit.ly/4hBJK6d

The rule of law isn't disappearing. It's eroding in ways that are harder to see.Courts stay open. Laws stay on the books...
21/09/2026

The rule of law isn't disappearing. It's eroding in ways that are harder to see.

Courts stay open. Laws stay on the books. But the World Justice Project found the rule of law declining in 68% of countries assessed in 2025; the eighth straight year the rule of law has deteriorated in a majority of countries.

This volume of the Journal on Rule of Law asks why institutions can survive while losing the power to restrain power. And for the first time, the is devoted to book reviews. Seven reviewers. Seven works of scholarship. Each one tested against that same question.

📓 https://bit.ly/462Ia8a

Grateful to the leadership of Co-Editors-in-Chief Tremar Caleb Smith and Ayesha Safdar, and to the dedicated Editorial Board — Abdikariim Daud, Boniface I. Ezenwobi, Hellen Mutellah, Monita Varence, and Irene Were — for building Volume 8.

Follow along as we release each review.

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