Rule of Law is a system in which no man or government collective stands above the law. BlueLaw International LLP strives to assist governments, both domestic and international, closer to the ideal of Rule of Law.¯

BLI has worked closely with the Ukrainian Judicial system in order to implement an improved administrative court system as well as provide training for new judges. We developed a system specifically designed for Ukraine by focusing on their most critical needs, as expressed by Ukrainian judges themselves through a series of extensive interviews with our personnel. Furthermore, BLI experts observed and analyzed the operations of current Ukrainian courts systems in order to best develop a new system of administrative courts.

Beyond Ukraine, BLI is exercising Rule of Law in two cases in Indonesia, as part of the Millennium Challenge Threshold Program. In Indonesia the primary goals are to reduce corruption within the court and increase the transparency of the court system. BLI personnel also provided ethics training and finance and budget system reviews for the court system. In Albania, working as a subcontractor to Chemonics, BLI completely restructured the existing public procurement law. From law writing to personnel training, our work in Albania allowed the Albanian (courts) to realize the very first open, public, and transparent on-line public procurement (system).

Our most recent Rule of Law project falls within the Iraq Civilian Advisor Support Task Order issued by the State Department. BLI experts are working with Iraqi officials and the State Department to strengthen both the judicial system and rule of law as part of a three year contract. We are happy to report that our work has been received with phenomenal acceptance and we look forward to the remainder of our time ever-increasing the rule of law around the world.

BlueLaw International LLP provides operational subject matter expertise, defense acquisition support, specialized legal services, and technical expertise across a varied spectrum of defense and security programs and projects.

BLI has successfully delivered on security sector projects involving military and security strategy, planning, and training.  In completing these projects we have dealt with issues like strategy development and integration, training, operational planning, system architecture, interoperability, and the development of transformation pathways. 

Niche experience areas

Within the US Department of Defense, BlueLaw International LLP and its personnel have niche experience areas that include: Command and Control (C2) Capabilities, CONOPS and Decision Support Systems; Net-centric Solutions and Enterprise Management; Acquisition Strategy and Support; and Expeditionary Operations.

BLI has experienced trainers who have conceptualized, developed, established, and taught as exchange instructors as well as served as program managers for numerous USAID and US Department of State programs in over 24 countries. BLI is also affiliated with several leading think tank organizations, peacekeeping trainers, and centers of excellence in humanitarian affairs and development in the US and around the world through its full time employees and partners.

BLI regularly provides subject matter expertise in integrated security and development projects for USAID and Department of State Millennium Challenge Corporation programs under MCC threshold and compact projects. BLI has also provided subject matter expertise for assessment and strategic planning, training, and operational support for security sector reform projects around the world.

International policy and practice

BlueLaw International LLP provides in-depth operational and legal subject matter expertise on both national and international security law and policy. We also specialize in Arms Export Control Act compliance and international commercial transactions. Other specialties include international development program support and federal procurement law.

Human Responder training

BlueLaw International LLP has the capability to train and provide a unified response from a diverse mix of US and host country entities in a transitional government environment, including the efforts of civilian bureaucracies, military/police/security organizations, regional and international government agencies, non governmental organizations (NGOs), private volunteer organizations (PVOs), individual volunteers, and the local population. 

BlueLaw International LLP is recognized as a major innovator in the design and implementation of human rights programming in developing, transition and post-conflict countries. A significant segment of our democracy and governance work focuses on the promotion of human rights, particularly for marginalized populations and their representative organizations.

BLI has responded to requests from governments and non-governmental organizations to review, comment and assist in drafting key pieces of human rights legislation, including in Russia, Zambia, Liberia, Nepal and South Korea. Our staff members have worked with a number of national human rights institutions across the world to strengthen their capacity to undertake legislative reviews, deliver human rights education and engage meaningfully with marginalized populations.

As a service-disabled, veteran-owned organization, BLI has developed an extensive practice area in disability rights and inclusive development programming. BLI has worked with disabled peoples organizations in more than 20 countries worldwide on disability law, policy and practice. BLI is working with American Institutes for Research on a USAID program designed to develop model programming for the implementation of the USAID Disability Policy in three sectors of international development. BLI led the development of the first core international disability rights curriculum, Human Rights. YES! Action and Advocacy on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, BLI, together with the Harvard Project on Disability, Advocating Change Together, Disabled Peoples International and the University of Minnesota Human Rights Resource Center. This project, endorsed by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and generously funded by the Shafallah Center for Children with Special Needs, is working with local disabled peoples organizations in four regions to implement participatory human rights education.

As a leader in developing participatory human rights education methodologies, BLI was asked to participate in the revision and dissemination of the core women's human rights education resource, Local Action, Global Change, with Julie Mertus and Nancy Flowers. In 2006, Professor Julie Mertus served as a BLI consultant in a USAID funded program to train more than 100 women Parliamentarians from Ethiopia in gender analysis.

BLI is simultaneously working toward the amelioration of the Egyptian criminal and social justice sectors treatment of vulnerable groups. As a subcontractor on the USAID-funded Combating Violence against Women and Children project in Egypt, BLI is providing experts in juvenile justice, social work, statistics, and international law that are working to change the Egyptian system to incorporate and implement the standards promulgated in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on juvenile justice.

BLI has designed and implemented training programs in international human rights standards for judges and prosecutors. As a subcontractor on the USAID-funded Egypt Administration of Criminal Justice project, BLI experts developed a human rights-focused training program for prosecutors and judges. Designed to develop life-long skills, this training program and curriculum continues throughout a prosecutor's career, focusing on human rights standards and practical implementation methods relevant to criminal justice processes.

BlueLaw International LLP and its professional legal and subject-matter professional experts have experience across the spectrum of international law practice and international development programming:

Commercial Legal Practice

• Public Procurement
• Intellectual Property
• Program Management
• Ethics Compliance

BlueLaw Defense

BlueLaw Defense is a principally U.S. Military and military-related criminal and administrative defense practice representing individuals facing adverse government action. Our attorneys have been assigned at and represented clients at virtually every U.S. military installation around the world. BlueLaw Defense is composed of former and retired military personnel with experience involving all branches of the U.S. Armed and Uniformed Services. Our practice includes every type of case that can arise within the military, as well as a number of non-military areas of law:

• Court-Martial Defense
• Administrative Separation Representation
• Article 15 advice and assistance
• Retirement Grade Determinations
• Discharge Reviews
• Correction of Military Records
• Physical Disability Evaluation System representation
• Personal Security Clearance adjudication assistance
• Positive Drug Urinalysis Cases
• Defense of Contractor Prosecutions under the UCMJ
• Domestic US Court Criminal Defense *
  

* Limited Jurisdictions based upon attorney licensing.