Rule of Law Coalition

The Rule of Law Coalition’s main areas of focus include, but are not limited to:  

The objectives of the Rule of Law Coalition are to:

The rule of law is among the most crucial factors in a company’s ability to achieve business profitably in any given market over time.

For a privately owned company whose continued operations are dependent on a return on investment over time, there are several factors related to the rule of law that will determine its ability to make rational investment and operating decisions, and thereby have a reasonable expectation of returning a profit:

Throughout the world, countries that actively promote and defend the rule of law are fostering an investment climate that supports job creation, economic growth, and shared prosperity.

Since 2013, the Rule of Law Coalition has produced its Global Rule of Law and Business Dashboard, released every two years, in partnership with research firm Pugatch Consilium. The Dashboard offers the business community, governments, policymakers, and stakeholders across the world an innovative, empirical tool to measure and understand the needs of the business community within a rule of law context. Importantly, it demonstrates the state of rule of law in global and regional contexts, and the close relationship between adherence to the rule of law and the ability to attract investment.

The Dashboard has grown from an initial sample of 10 markets in the Americas to now 113 markets globally, measuring governments’ adherence to the five factors that contribute to a strong rule of law and investment climate: transparency, predictability, stability, accountability, and due process. Those five factors provide businesses with confidence in the integrity of public and private institutions to make trade and investment decisions where there is fairness, enforcement, and proper adjudication of the law, and their presence is correlated with increased investment, economic growth, and job creation. The Dashboard provides users with an easy-to-understand yet statistically credible meta-measure of the rule of law environment as it relates to business, relying on information and research contained in seven internationally accepted indices and surveys. As the report has expanded, the results continue to show that rule of law remains a challenge globally. Meanwhile, the private sector remains critical in co-creating solutions to remedy the rule of law and enhance public integrity.