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FREE LAW JOURNAL - VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1 (18 JULY 2005)
EDITORIAL
Welcome to the first issue of the Free Law Journal, a print and electronic journal aiming at promoting
respect of the rule of law and the fair application of justice everywhere through the sharing of juridical
research.
While the Free Law Journal is a new publication as such, it builds upon the previous year of activities
of the Eastern European Law Journals, and merged within the Free Law Journal. It builds upon those
previous success and extends the previous purview of activities to all types of laws across the world.
So far, we are receiving a high volume of articles in particular from Central and Eastern Europe. We
continue to welcome those and encourage even more academics from the Middle East, the Maghreb
and Northern, Central and Southern Africa to submit their articles. We desire to be truly international
in scope and to offer comparative point of views in order to sustain the development and maintenance
of the rule of law everywhere. As such, all articles are welcome and none are refused on principles : all
that are accepted are so on merits.
Turning to our new publication, we hope that you will join the sharing of your research though us and
that you will contribute to supporting the rule of law. This point is a major one as avery little step in
the development of a coherent and respectful system of law counts everyday.
Indeed, the last century of development of legal systems everywhere has been truly amazing and
developments under the United Nations’ system in the last 60 years has provided much in way of
comparaison of national and international perception of what law is and should be, in accordance with
cultural imperative.
Sadly, as ideas and commitment by some to the rule of law develop, there are always setbacks and
attacks on the respect of human rights, the rights to a fair trial and simply the administration of proper
justice within a nation and at the international levels.
This, with the previous acceptance of subjugation in international law, has led Africa to be drawn into
illogical boundaries, engendering many conflicts that otherwise could have been avoided through the
years. The opposition of the right/left dialectic during the cold war further contributed to many
acceptance of regimes deny the respect of human rights and the very denigration of justice through
corruption. From Central to South America ; from East to Far Asia, from Western to Eastern Europe,
no country has been without period of profound questionments of its legal system, reforms or attacks
from within and without.
As we witness oday further imbalanaces on the international stage, from Bosnia to Palestine, from Iraq
to Belarus, from the Congo to Kashmir, in is evident that the rule of law is often subverted by the
imperative of politics and the rule of might.
Still, there are courageous jurists everywhere condemning violations of justice and demanding its fair
application to all, in equality. Those jurist, supporting and aiding to develop civil society, are the hope
for a better future under the guidance and fairness of the law.
We hope that you will be part of this and that you will forge ahead in sharing your reasearch and
helping establish common legal norms.
With hope,
Louis-Philippe F. Rouillard
Editor-in-Chief, Free World Publishing Inc.
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