The Uighurs and China: lost and found nation, Yitzhak Shichor
The reports of violence and deaths in the city of Urumchi, the capital of Xinjiang province in northwest China, draw renewed attention to this comparatively neglected region of China and of central Asia. The exact details of what happened there on...
India’s Maoist dilemma: the case of Lalgarh, Aaradhana Jhunjhunwala
A battle rages on in the Indian state of West Bengal, between Maoist guerillas called the Naxalites (Naxalbari is the name of a village in West Bengal where the movement was born in 1967) and national and paramilitary forces. The Naxalites, a ...
Legal Nihilism in Russia, Bill Bowring
It is notorious that "telephone justice" was the norm in the Soviet Union. Judges, except at the highest levels, had low prestige. While most public prosecutors were men, most judges - like doctors and teachers - were women. All judges...
Israel’s path: from occupation to peace, Gershon Baskin
Many Israelis are already wondering how they going to deal with at least three more years of an anti-Israel administration in Washington. In general, these are the people who think that pressuring Israel to meet its obligations under the roadmap of...
"No win, no fee" libel: access versus threat, Emma Woollcott
"The conduct of libel proceedings on credit is a thoroughly bad idea". So said Mr Justice Coulson, a Liverpool High Court judge, when deciding that a losing claimant should pay the defendant’s costs of a "hopeless" defamation...
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