1. Write a Comment
Use the comment function to add, expand or critizise existing texts. You will find the "comment"-button at the end of all country reports and other texts.
2. Write a New Country Report or Additional Text
To create a new page you need to be registetred as an "author" with the wiki and to be logged in. See How to Register for a walk-through. When you are logged in and possess status as author, got to the page Country Reports or Additional Text, respectively, and click "Add Page".
Alternatively you can simply email us your text and we put it online. See Contact.
2.1. Guidlines for Country Reports
A country report should illustrate the specific understandings of the Rule of Law in reference to the particular legal and constitutional discourse of the country. The reports shall be brief and informative (round about 10.000 characters, three pages). In order to manage the inconsistency of the relevant literature and to achieve comparability, it seems reasonable to ensure the structural consistency of the country reports by using a template. See Template for Country Reports.
2.1. Guidlines for Additional Texts
The country reports are complemented by comparative analyses that develop further materials from political and cultural sciences (round about 30.000 to 40.000 char-acters or 10-12 pages). The texts may either be cross-country comparisons of legal systems and re-ports on cultural areas, e.g. "The Rule of Law in Constitutions of Countries with an Islamic cultural background" or "The European Understanding of the Rule of Law". The texts may also compare the development of the idea of Rule of Law form a cultural or philosophical historical perspective.
3. Modify or add to existing Text
To ensure authroship, changing existing country reports or other text ist generally disabled. However, if you are the author of a text on this wiki and wish to open it to other authers (for example, in order to work collaboratively on a text), we can unlock the page. Please contact us.
If you strongly disagree with an existing country report and feel that the comment function is not enough, you may write an alternative country report which can be put online side to side of the first report.
