Capabilities

BlueLaw International LLP offers the services of a wide range of expert consultants, support personnel, and attorneys, with a unique blend of cross-disciplinary education, training, and real world experience. With an emphasis on field experience, operational knowledge, and real-world problem-solving skills, BLI personnel can provide specialized skills to enhance interdisciplinary teams, provide hard-to-find skills, and perform complex planning and tasks.

Through the use of full and part-time personnel, as well as standing relationships with the Department of State, US Agency for International Development and other internationally renowned non-profit centers, BLI can provide access to a broad and diverse group of experts in order to fill any programmatic need for both short- and long-term programs.

BLI specializes in the integrated provision of transitional development services including:

  • Full spectrum subject-matter expertise and support services applicable to democracy and governance
  • Government and security sector reform
  • Legal consulting and post-conflict transformation
  • Rule of law, anti-corruption, and institutional capacity-building programs
  • Human Rights and access to justice by disadvantaged populations

BLI Areas of Expertise

Public sector reforms:

  • Rule of law, justice sector, public procurement, security sector, commercial organization, and public administration

Integrated development programs:

  • Overseas project establishment
  • Key and support personnel recruitment
  • Public and private sector partnerships
  • Full spectrum disarmament, demobilization and re-integration programs including:
  • legal
  • relocation support
  • vocational training
  • community-based individual and collective micro-enterprises
  • access to markets

Democratic policing programs:

  • Community policing, police reforms, human rights training, and civil military relations
  • Anti-corruption and anti-fraud programs
  • Customs, border control, and immigration regulation and training
  • Peace operations planning, training, and support
  • Emergency relief and stability operations planning and support
  • Disaster management and public health support
  • Public affairs and strategic communications support
  • Foreign legal and regulatory systems
  • Investigator, public prosecutor, and fact-finding training
  • Court system reform, legal compliance for law enforcement
  • Advocacy training and policy concerning the disadvantaged
  • Human Rights education and training
  • Development project security assessments and support

Our human rights practice group possesses the following expertise:

  • Human rights law reform and legislative drafting
  • National human rights institution building and strengthening
  • Human rights treaty negotiation and implementation
  • Participatory human rights education curriculum design and delivery
  • Women's human rights programming and gender analysis
  • Disability rights law and policy advocacy
  • Civic and voter education for marginalized populations
  • NGO human rights advocacy capacity building
  • Training of judges and prosecutors in international human rights standards
  • Human rights litigation