Literature on Constitutional and Legal Issues

Afsah, E. and Guhr, A. H., Afghanistan: Building a State to Keep the Peace, Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, 9 (2005), pp. 373-456.

Afsah, E., Afghanistan Conflict, Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, 2007.

Ahmed F., Judicial Reform in Afghanistan: A case Study in the New Criminal procedure Code, 2005.

Amnesty International, Afghanistan: Re-establishing the rule of law, 2003.

Arjomand S., Constitutional Development in Afghanistan, A Comparative and Historical Perspective, 2005.

Armytage, L., Justice in Afghanistan – Rebuilding judicial competence after the generation of war, 2007.

Armytage, L., Training of Judges: Reflections on Principle and International Practice, European Journal of Legal Education, vol. 2, no. 1, 2005, pp. 21-38.

Aryobsei, M., Constitutional Law in Muslim Countries / Challenges for the Afghan Constitution. Impulses from a Comparative Perspective, VRÜ 1, 2010, pp. 130-139.

Aucoin L., The Role of International Experts in Constitution-Making – Myth and Reality, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 2004, pp. 89-95.

Barfield, T., Nojumi, N., Their, J. A. The Clash of Two Goods – State and None-State Dispute Resolution in Afghanistan, United States Institute of Peace, 2006.

Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) of England and Wales, Training Manual on Rule of Law Afghanistan, 2006.

Deledda, A., Hegazy, A., Saffee O., The Death Penalty in Afghanistan, Embassy of Italy in Kabul, 2005.

Desautels-Stein, J., Rites and rights in Afghanistan: the Hazara and the 2004 Constitution. In: The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, vol. 29 (1), 2005, pp. 157-179.

Dickinson L., Transitional Justice in Afghanistan: The Promise of Mixed Tribunals, Denver Journal of International Law & Policy, 2003, pp. 23-42.

Grenfell, L., Paths to Transitional Justice for Afghan Women, Nordic Journal of International Law, vol. 73 (4), 2004, pp. 505-534.

Grote, R., Separation of Powers in the New Afghan Constitution, Heidelberg Journal of International Law, 64 (2004), pp. 897-915.

Harvard Kennedy School, CARR CENTER for Human Rights Policy, Historical Legal Developments in Afghanistan´s Formal System of Law

Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Conflict Prevention Initiative Afghan Legal Reform: Challenges and Opportunities, 2003.

Hekman, R., The Hukuk Department in Afghanistan’s Justice System, unpublished paper (2006).

Jackson, J., Trial of the Accused Taliban and Al Qaeda Operatives Captured in Afghanistan and Detained on a U.S. Military Base in Cuba, 34 Cumb. L. Reb., 2004, pp. 195-230.

Kakar, P., Tribal Law of Pashtunwali and Women’s Legislative Authority.

Kamali, M.H., References to Islam and Women in the Afghan Constitution, 22 Arab Law Quarterly, 2008, pp. 270-306.

Kamali, M.H., Law in Afghanistan : A study of the Constitutions, Matrimonial Law and the judiciary, 1997.

Knust Rassekh Afshar, M., The Case of an Afghan Apostate – The Right to a Fair Trial Between Islamic Law and Human Rights in the Afghan Constitution, Max Planck UNYB, 10 (2006), pp. 591-605.

Kritz, N., Promoting a Formal System of Justice in Post-Taliban Afghanistan, Connecticut Journal of International Law, 17 (2002), pp. 451-460.

Lau, M., The Independence of Judges Under Islamic Law, International Law and the New Afghan Constitution, Heidelberg Journal of International Law, 64 (2004), pp. 917-927.

Mahmoudi, S., The Shari’a in the New Afghan Constitution: Contradiction or Compliment?, Heidelberg Journal of International Law, 64 (2004), pp. 867-880.

Miller, L. and Perito, R., Establishing the Rule of Law in Afghanistan, United States Institute of Peace, Special Report 117, 2004, pp. 1-18.

Moschtaghi, R., Organisation and Jurisdiction of the Newly Established Afghan Courts – The Compliance of the Formal System of Justice with the Bonn Agreement, Max Planck UNYB, 10 (2006), pp. 531-590.

Moschtaghi, R., Present Problems with Establishing the Rule of Law in Afghanistan – The Advisory Opinion of the Supreme Court on the Motion of Censure in the Lower House Concerning the Foreign Minister, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg Journal of International Law ( HJIL ) Band/Volume 68 (2008)

Nadery, A. N., A Human Rights Awakening? The Future of Afghanistan, United States Institute of Peace Press, 2009.

Pauly, J. and Nojumi, N., Balancing Relation Between Society and State, Legal Steps towards National reconciliation and Reconstruction of Afghanistan, American Journal of Contemporary Law, 2004, pp. 825-858.

Röder, T., Human Rights Standards in Afghan Courtrooms: The Theory and Reality of the Right to a Fair Trial, Beiträge zum Islamischen Recht VII, Frankfurt a. M., 2010, pp. 329-359

Röder, T., Kollisionen zwischen Sharī‘a, Gesetz und Stammestradition in Afghanistan, Normative Pluralität Ordnen, Baden-Baden, 2009, pp. 257-301.

Spencer, W.H., Establishing the Rule of Law in Post-Taliban Afghanistan, Connecticut Journal of International Law, 17 (2002), pp. 445-450.

Tarzi, A., Historical Relationship between State and Non-State Judicial Sectors in Afghanistan, United States Institute of Peace, 2006.

The International Legal Foundation, The Customary Laws of Afghanistan, 2004.

Thier, J. A., Reestablishing the Judicial System in Afghanistan, CDDRL Working Papers No. 19, 2004.

Wardak, A., Building a post-war justice system in Afghanistan, Crime, Law & Social Change, vol. 41, no. 4, 2004, pp. 319-341.

Wardak, A., Daud S. and Halima K., Afghanistan Human Development Report 2007: Bridging Modernity and Tradition: Rule of Law and the Search for Justice, Center for Policy and Human Development, Kabul, 2007.

Zuccarelli, F., The Rule of Law and Justice in Afghanistan. In: New International Tribunals and Proceedings, 2006, pp. 211-229.


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