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Ideas, people and practical ways forward.

Iuris prudentia relief on the wall of rotunda extension wing of the National library of Finland. Allegory of justice, with a hand raised in oath symbol below. Sculptor Walter Runeberg (1838 - 1920).

Feature 01

Origins and context

An independent editorial publication connected with the Connel Legale Facebook community. This feature looks beyond the headline and asks what the idea means in lived experience.

Mural by Symeon Shimin, "Contemporary Justice and The Child" , Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

Feature 02

People and perspectives

An independent editorial publication connected with the Connel Legale Facebook community. This feature looks beyond the headline and asks what the idea means in lived experience.

Linda Rau from Kila Kila Village Court outside Port Moresby. Australia has trained 1,000 women in Papua New Guinea to become village court magistrates.

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Practical action

An independent editorial publication connected with the Connel Legale Facebook community. This feature looks beyond the headline and asks what the idea means in lived experience.

Detail view of lamp in law library; Jennewein modeled symbols of the four seasons on the lamp's aluminum supports - United States Department of Justice, Constitution Avenue between Ninth and Tenth Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

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Origins and context

An independent editorial publication connected with the Connel Legale Facebook community. This feature looks beyond the headline and asks what the idea means in lived experience.

Interior view, law library (note one of aluminum lamps designed by Jennwein is in the foreground; the murals were painted by Maurice Sterne) - United States Department of Justice, Constitution Avenue between Ninth and Tenth Streets, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Drawing of the projected Royal Courts of Justice while the site was still under construction. Note the Temple Bar Gate is depicted, which was removed in 1878 and replaced with the Temple Bar Memorial in 1880, both before the court's completion in 1882.

Title: Sculpture "Legislative Law" at Department of Justice, Washington, D.C Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color. Notes: Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083).; Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration.; Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer.; Artist: Carl Paul Jennewein, 1933. Plaster, dimensions: 36' x 9' 11".; Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Title: Oil painting "Continuity of the Law" located in fifth floor, main library, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color. Notes: Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083).; Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration.; Artist: Maurice Sterne, 1941. Dimensions: 6' x 8'.; Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer.; Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

From the editor

Depth before speed.

This publication connects the immediacy of a Facebook community with the permanence of a carefully edited website. The aim is to preserve useful context, make room for longer reading and give important ideas a home beyond the social feed.

Images are selected for relevance and dignity. Factual claims should be checked against current primary sources, while community stories remain clearly identified as experience rather than universal proof.