The World Justice Project (WJP) Wednesday released its 2022 Rule of Law Index. For the fifth year in a row, the majority of countries experienced a decline in the rule of law. 85 out of 140 countries, ...

The World Justice Project's annual Global Rule of Law Index uses rigorous research and metrics to rank its strength in countries worldwide. America's 2023 rank in WJP's Global Index was #26, ...

The 2023 WJP Rule of Law Index ranked 142 countries according to how they adhere to the rules they made for themselves. Instructively, the countries found at the bottom of the ranking – mostly ...

Insights from the 2022 World Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index show that, in 61% of the world's countries (which totals 4.4 billion people), adherence to rule of law has declined during the ...

The Rule of Law Index measures eight categories More than 154,000 households and 3,600 legal experts were surveyed for this year's index. How the rule of law can be defined is constantly debated ...

Last year's index ranked the United States 26th out of 142 countries in a world described as being in a "rule of law recession." Since then, Americans do not think things have gotten better, and ...

When the World Justice Project surveys people about what the rule of law means for the WJP Rule of Law Index, the most popular answer in almost every country, including the United States, is, “I ...

The annual Rule of Law Index, published by the World Justice Project, which I co-founded, uses surveys of practitioners and randomly selected households to gauge the rule of law in 140 countries. The ...

The World Justice Project Rule of Law Index now ranks the United States at only 20 out of the 126 countries measured, as can be seen in the accompanying table.

Today the World Justice Project releases its Rule of Law Index rankings for 2012. The WJP Rule of Law index assesses countries’ performance on the nine areas of: limits on government power ...

According to the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index, the United States now ranks No. 19, while China ranks No. 75 (out of 113 countries).