by Lauriane Labourel | Jun 14, 2023 | All, Building Legal Skills and Capacity, Export, featured, Highlights
Legal scholars have watched with alarm as systemic violations erode the rule of law in parts of the European Union. With governments in Hungary and Poland working to systemically weaken judicial oversight and independence, judges, lawyers, and civil society...
by Lauriane Labourel | Apr 21, 2023 | All, Building Legal Skills and Capacity, Export, featured, Highlights
“It was five o’clock in the morning when we woke up in Kyiv and heard explosions. And the very next day, when we came out of the shelters, we started gathering information about the Russian attacks. Hence the name Ukraine 5 AM.” This is how Maryna Khromykh...
by Lauriane Labourel | Apr 21, 2023 | All, Anti-Corruption, Building Legal Skills and Capacity, Export, featured
On March 27-28, the CEELI Institute organized the fifth roundtable session for judges of the African Judicial Network in Cape Town, South Africa. The roundtable brought together judges from Botswana, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa,...
by Lauriane Labourel | Apr 21, 2023 | All, Anti-Corruption, Building Legal Skills and Capacity, Export, featured
On March 20-21, we brought together civil society actors from the region with academics, journalists, legal professionals, and other experts—including from the European Commission, the Whistleblowing International Network, and the International Bar Association—to...
by Lauriane Labourel | Feb 17, 2023 | All, Anti-Corruption, Building Legal Skills and Capacity, Export, featured
When six Western allies and the EU announced plans in February to target the assets of Russian oligarchs in a bid to sway support for the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, mechanisms for how forfeitures would be conducted were barely discussed. For Ukraine’s legal...
by Lauriane Labourel | Dec 15, 2022 | All, Building Legal Skills and Capacity, Export, featured
After several years of virtual programming imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the CEELI Institute was delighted to return to in-person trainings with Indian judges in November. Our current efforts focus on building Indian judges’ capacity to develop and implement...
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