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Today, SIL has more than 22,000 individual members in more than 90 countries.30 It serves
ABA members, the profession, and the public through continuing legal education, publications,
dozens of substantive committees, the International Legal Resource Center (a partnership with the
United Nations Development Programme), outreach to the global legal community, interaction
with the U.S. government, policy development, and advocacy.31 SIL leadership also led to the
creation of the ABA’s Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI)32 and the Rule of
Law Initiative (ROLI).33
ROLI is committed to collaborative learning and innovative research that enables it to
identify effective approaches to rule of law development, incorporate these into creative program
design, capture lessons learned from our work, and share them with the broader development
policy community. ROLI provides thought leadership through publications and events, sharing
insights from our work in almost 60 countries around the world. In 2016, ROLI participated in
consortia that produced an assessment of the justice system in the Central African Republic and a
toolkit for advancing justice in the context of efforts to achieve the U.N.’s 2030 Sustainable
Development Goals. From ROLI’s work to advance the rule of law over the past 25 years, it is
clear that change comes from the creativity and drive of individual people committed to the cause
of advancing the rule of law. For this reason, ROLI puts partnerships with local actors at the center
of all its programs. The Association proudly supports these efforts to drive change.
Conclusion
Our world grows smaller each day. Few of the ABA’s founders who gathered in Saratoga
Springs could have imagined the scope and implications of the changes in the legal profession,
especially those resulting from the globalization of commerce and law. In fact, few lawyers just
10 years ago could have predicted the issues facing lawyers today. The Association works
tirelessly to understand the changes in the legal profession and the challenges of the day, while
providing resources to help members around the world become better lawyers. The ABA is the
voice of the American legal profession, but it works to strengthen the rule of law worldwide. As
lawyers, we are many, but as a legal profession and an Association, we are one.
30 See AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, ABA SECTION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, ABOUT US,
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/international_law/about_us.html.
31 See AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER,
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/international_law/initiatives_awards/international_legal_resource_center.html.
32 See AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, CENTRAL EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN LAW INITIATIVE,
http://apps.americanbar.org/legalservices/probono/soc/ceeli.html.
33 See AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, RULE OF LAW INITIATIVE, http://www.americanbar.org/advocacy/rule_of_law.html.
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ABA members, the profession, and the public through continuing legal education, publications,
dozens of substantive committees, the International Legal Resource Center (a partnership with the
United Nations Development Programme), outreach to the global legal community, interaction
with the U.S. government, policy development, and advocacy.31 SIL leadership also led to the
creation of the ABA’s Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI)32 and the Rule of
Law Initiative (ROLI).33
ROLI is committed to collaborative learning and innovative research that enables it to
identify effective approaches to rule of law development, incorporate these into creative program
design, capture lessons learned from our work, and share them with the broader development
policy community. ROLI provides thought leadership through publications and events, sharing
insights from our work in almost 60 countries around the world. In 2016, ROLI participated in
consortia that produced an assessment of the justice system in the Central African Republic and a
toolkit for advancing justice in the context of efforts to achieve the U.N.’s 2030 Sustainable
Development Goals. From ROLI’s work to advance the rule of law over the past 25 years, it is
clear that change comes from the creativity and drive of individual people committed to the cause
of advancing the rule of law. For this reason, ROLI puts partnerships with local actors at the center
of all its programs. The Association proudly supports these efforts to drive change.
Conclusion
Our world grows smaller each day. Few of the ABA’s founders who gathered in Saratoga
Springs could have imagined the scope and implications of the changes in the legal profession,
especially those resulting from the globalization of commerce and law. In fact, few lawyers just
10 years ago could have predicted the issues facing lawyers today. The Association works
tirelessly to understand the changes in the legal profession and the challenges of the day, while
providing resources to help members around the world become better lawyers. The ABA is the
voice of the American legal profession, but it works to strengthen the rule of law worldwide. As
lawyers, we are many, but as a legal profession and an Association, we are one.
30 See AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, ABA SECTION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, ABOUT US,
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/international_law/about_us.html.
31 See AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER,
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/international_law/initiatives_awards/international_legal_resource_center.html.
32 See AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, CENTRAL EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN LAW INITIATIVE,
http://apps.americanbar.org/legalservices/probono/soc/ceeli.html.
33 See AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, RULE OF LAW INITIATIVE, http://www.americanbar.org/advocacy/rule_of_law.html.
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