Higher Callings
Interviews of lawyers and others dedicated to serving the common good. The host of Higher Callings® is Donald Frederico, a Boston lawyer and past President of the Boston Bar Association with several decades of experience representing clients and leading nonprofit organizations. In those roles, Don has met many people who have found ways to serve their communities and the broader public and help people in need. We hope that, by shining a light on their good works, Higher Callings will inspire others to find their own paths towards making the world a better place.
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The Rule of Law Index and the Disturbing Trend it Reveals: Part 2 of Our Democracy and Rule of Law Replay Series
Because we're now entering election season, we've decided to republish excerpts from some of the past episodes of Higher Callings that listeners may find relevant to their voting decisions. Several of our interviews have focused on Democracy and the Rule of Law, both at home and abroad, with guests who are particularly experienced with and qualified to discuss those topics. So, over the next few weeks, we plan to roll out relevant clips from those episodes.
What follows is the second clip from one of our most recent episodes, recorded in April of this year. It features Betsy Anderson, the Executive Director of a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization called the World Justice Project, and Karen Green, a retired Massachusetts judge and lawyer and current member of the Project's Leadership Council.
In this clip, Betsy, Karen, and I discuss the Rule of Law Index, a tool developed by the World Justice Project to measure the rule of law in 142 countries, and used by governments and nongovernmental organizations to identify where countries are doing well and where they might focus their efforts to strengthen the rule of law within their borders. We also discuss some disturbing trends in the rule of law worldwide and in the United States, and what we all can do to support the rule of law in our own communities.
To learn more about the amazing work of the World Justice Project, you can find the full interview of Betsy and Karen in an earlier episode of this podcast, and can check out WJP's website at https://worldjusticeproject.org/
If you have enjoyed the Higher Callings podcast, you might also enjoy Don's Substack Newsletter, Reflections of a Boston Lawyer, which you can find here: https://donaldfrederico.substack.com/