Substantive rights have a core that can be meaningfully interpreted and protected; they can exist independently of a particular government or a particular legal system. Procedural rights lack such an ...

The procedure to be followed in a particular case can have a dramatic effect on the result to be reached from the substantive law, and perhaps nowhere is this greater than in the area of ...

Procedural due process ensures that the government follows fair methods, while substantive due process examines the content of government action itself, forbidding certain governmental intrusions ...

Fabian Ajogwu, SAN, is Nigeria’s first professor of corporate governance. In this interview, he speaks on how to improve the country’s justice system administration, whistle-blowing policy of the ...

Substantive consolidation is a procedure that can be implemented by a bankruptcy court to treat two or more debtors in bankruptcy as one entity by pooling the assets and claims of the entities, ...