Sequel to World Justice Forum in the works
- Austria
- 08/11/2008
Neukom, whose one-year term as President of the ABA ends Tuesday at the close of the Annual Meeting in New York City, focused primarily on the initial accomplishments of the World Justice Project, an ambitious and wide-ranging endeavor that has been the centerpiece of his presidency. He said he isn’t likely to be the project’s moving force in the future. Although the World Justice Project will continue as an independent entity supported by its own funding sources, its relationship with the ABA will continue to be close. Neukom said the ABA provides no general revenue funding support for the project, but a commission will work with the project on substantive and logistical matters. Neukom will serve as Board of Governors liaison to the commission. Neukom said he is gratified that the project so far has shown that “a multidisciplinary approach can be very powerful” in building support for the premise that rule-of-law principles are crucial to building and maintaining communities of equality and opportunity for their citizens. A key element of the project has been to build coalitions between lawyers and other disciplines-including the medical field, architects, engineers and labor groups-that will work together to address rule-of-law issues in the United States and the rest of the world. The first stage of the project culminated in early July at a three-day World Justice Forum in Vienna, Austria, that brought together nearly 500 attendees representing various disciplines from countries around the world.
