Perspective
Jan. 5, 2010
Rampant Corruption Calls for Stronger Effort
Tom Umberg, Army Colonel and partner at Manatt, says action and supporting efforts to establish the rule of law in Afghanistan are merely first steps.
By Tom Umberg
Shortly after I arrived in Afghanistan, I travelled to a shura in Jalalabad to meet with elders, mullahs, judges, lawyers, and government officials to discuss the formal/governmental and traditional systems of justice that exist here in Afghanistan. The formal system would be recognizable by Westerners - court rooms, judges and written records. The traditional system - with its informal setting, lack of due process, swiftness to judgment, and absence ...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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