Workshop on the role of interim constitutions in post-conflict settings: 4-5 December 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland

 

“Interim Constitutions in Post-Conflict Settings”

“The crisis consists in precisely the fact that the old order is dying and the new cannot yet be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear”

Participants engaged in discussion in the Raeburn Room at Edinburgh University Old College

Participants engaged in discussion in the Raeburn Room at Edinburgh University Old College

 

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Workshop on the Rule of Law in West-Africa-Saint Louis, Dakar

Theme
The normative framework for judicial review

Background

Central to the concept of the rule of law is the idea that society as a whole must be governed by a system of just laws. In particular, the exercise of public power by state agents must be constrained by clearly defined, stable, and predictable laws that guarantee and protect fundamental rights, provide for tansparent government, as well as order and security. Democratic constitutions are the bedrock of a proper rule of law system, establishing the standards against which public action is  measured.