The Challenge of Judicial Reform in Post-Conflict States

Posted: 25 Jun 2013

Date Written: May 2011

Abstract

This paper explores the consequences of sustained and widespread violence in states plagued by internal conflict on their government institutions, in particular their justice and judicial systems, by summarizing four recent case studies: Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Liberia, and Cambodia. The case studies illustrate how the fundamental destruction of the institutions primarily responsible for the rule of law create an often incendiary political vacuum from which it is difficult to recover.

Keywords: civil society, institutional collapse, absence of the rule of law, Rwanda, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Liberia, social breakdown, judicial reform, judicial restructuring

Suggested Citation

Zimmer, Markus B., The Challenge of Judicial Reform in Post-Conflict States (May 2011). Ohio North University Law Review, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, 2011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2284487

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