IBA Global Insight - December 2017/January 2018

December / January 2018

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Features

Regulars

Xi censors to consolidate

The media crackdown in the run-up to the recent National Congress in China is the latest strand of an ongoing digital censorship drive by President Xi Jinping that underpins the country’s economic goals and ‘great renewal’

Addresses at IBA Annual Conference opening ceremony 2017

The IBA President called on the legal profession to improve its public face and engage more with communities to halt the erosion in the rule of law and the rise of populism.

In memoriam: M Cherif Bassiouni

‘A legendary figure in the field of international criminal law’

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IBA Global Insight - December 2017/January 2018

December / January 2018

Features

Women leaders call for change

The changing face of world trade

China’s economic ambitions

IBA Human Rights Award 2017

Defence in troubled times

Environmental enforcement

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