By Mike Walsh | CEO, LexisNexis Legal & Professional It’s been a year since the murder of George Floyd and worldwide protests to eradicate racism and injustice against Black lives. Today, we reflect on Mr. Floyd’s impact on the world and those...
By Ian McDougall, General Counsel LexisNexis Legal & Professional There are four elements of the Rule of Law that LexisNexis uses as its definition: Equality before the law, access to the law, independent judiciary and access to remedy. Of course, the importance...
By Ian McDougall, President, LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation As I have mentioned in previous blogs, the Rule of Law is the foundation for the development of peaceful, equitable, and prosperous societies. One of the four key pillars of our definition of the...
By Ian McDougall, President of the LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation Last summer, the LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation (LNROLF) launched the inaugural Rule of Law Challenge contest which provided employees across RELX with the opportunity to get their rule of...
By Ian McDougall, General Counsel, LexisNexis Legal & Professional This blog isn’t going to be about a single subject. There are a huge number of issues that have recently, in some way, touched upon the subject of the Rule of Law but I will just highlight...
By Ian McDougall Before I start on my subject of today, it might be helpful for historians to locate the time within which this blog is being written. We have just had one of the most controversial presidential elections in history; Donald Trump vs Joe Biden...
By Ian McDougall, General Counsel of LexisNexis and President of the LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation One of the largest exercises in democracy will be taking place soon: The United States will hold its elections. (I say “one of the largest” because...
By Mike Walsh, CEO LexisNexis is committed to inclusion, equality and racial justice and we believe unequivocally that Black Lives Matter. Over the past several weeks, the management team and I have spent time reflecting, listening, learning, and discussing...
By Ian McDougall, LexisNexis In my previous blog I described what I called a “warning from history.” In times of crisis, emergency measures must be taken. Nobody seriously disputes that. Sometimes extreme measures have to be taken that, in “peacetime...
Coronavirus and the Rule of Law: A Warning from History By Ian McDougall, LexisNexis From time to time, every nation has an emergency of one kind or another to face. It tests all aspects of that nation -- the people, the facilities, the finances -- and very...