Corell, Hans

Janse, R.

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The purpose of this Guide is to provide an orientation for politiciansregarding the basic elements of the rule of law.The Guide was inspired by discussions within the InterAction Council ofFormer Heads of State and Government. The process of preparing thematerial was initiated and supervised by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute ofHuman Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University, Sweden, and theHague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL), the Netherlands.The first draft of the Guide was authored by Dr Ronald Janse, head, ruleof law programme, at HiiL, during the Henry G. Schermers Fellowship atthe Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and SocialSciences. Further work was then performed within the two supervisoryInstitutes. The material was then reviewed by members of the InterActionCouncil and representatives of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Valuablecomments were also received from individual experts. The final reviewwas made by Dr Hans Corell, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of theRaoul Wallenberg Institute and former Legal Counsel of the UnitedNations.A lodestar in the preparation of the Guide has been that it should be asshort as possible so that it could be read by busy politicians at variouslevels. But it should also be useful to other decision-makers and policymakers and to journalists and others who need to orient themselves in thetopic. The Guide should also be easy to translate and publish in differentlanguages. This is also the reason why there are no graphical illustrationsor pictures in the Guide.The original language of the Guide is English. However, the Guide may betranslated into other languages with the permission of the Institutes,provided the present Foreword is included and that the translation is atrue representation of the text. The original is available on the websites ofthe supervisory Institutes, where translations will also be published

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