By Nigel Roberts | VP Global Associations LexisNexis Legal & Professional, VP LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation LexisNexis is a global provider of legal information services and tools, which provides us with an important perspective on how the law is serving...
By Ian McDougall As regular readers of this blog will be aware (thank you to both of you!) I try to take a major story of the day and give it a Rule of Law angle. The reason for this approach is that the Rule of Law underpins our prosperity and peace. Without...
What does it mean to have people use their time and talent for the good of others? What types of projects transform others while also transforming ourselves? It can help to hear about one specific project and how two people worked together to create a solution...
By Isabelle Hansen | LexisNexis The mission of LexisNexis is to advance the Rule Of Law around the world. In doing so, we include all facets of identity, whether that be Race, Religion, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Ethnicity, etc. Because of our commitment to...
By Ian McDougall | President, LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation In this article I’m going to talk about two concepts: the Rule of Law and populism. Then I want to look at the effect of one on the other. I should point out that these views all my personal...
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 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, 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 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...