by Harris Institute | Apr 14, 2016 | Comparative Law, Foreign Affairs, Global Public Interest Law Internships, Human Rights
By: Joshua Sills I am fortunate to be spending this semester as a Foreign Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Israel in Jerusalem through Washington University School of Law’s International Justice and Conflict Resolution Externship. The Israeli Supreme Court is one of...
by Harris Institute | Jan 6, 2016 | Comparative Law, Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Rule of Law
By: Madaline George Constitutional term limits on a president’s tenure are common features in modern democracies. Seventy three percent of all presidential regimes at the end of 2009 used some form of presidential term limits, and in Africa two-thirds of countries...
by Harris Institute | Apr 29, 2015 | Colorism, Comparative Law, Human Rights
By: Neha Mishra, M.S. Ramaiah College of Law The two day Colorism Conference, hosted jointly by Washington University School of Law and Harris World Law Institute, established beyond a reasonable doubt that the problem of skin colour prejudice is prevalent all across...
by Harris Institute | Apr 17, 2015 | Colorism, Comparative Law
By: Vinay Harpalani, Savannah Law School On April 2 and 3, 2015, I had the privilege of presenting at the Global Perspectives on Colorism conference, sponsored by Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. While there...
by Harris Institute | Mar 17, 2015 | Comparative Law, Global Public Interest Law Internships, Uncategorized
By: Jim Ransdell Jim Ransdell, 2L, interned at Legal Resources Centre in Accra, Ghana during the Summer of 2014 as part of Washington University School of Law’s Global Public Interest Law Fellows Internship Program. This is the first in a series of posts by Jim...
by Harris Institute | Mar 5, 2015 | Comparative Law, Uncategorized
By: Ryan Scoville March 5, 2015 Recently I completed a project on the geography of international legal education. The goal was to figure out whether and to what extent universities and governments around the world require law students to study public international...
