Tom Francis

Tom Francis is a second-year graduate at Yale University studying International Relations. This past summer he worked for a clinic at Yale Law School in Cairo, Egypt, and as a grantee for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, both in Egypt and southeastern Turkey.

Egypt's legal revolution

In post-revolutionary Egypt, many activists have shifted their attentions to drafting the next constitution, which they hope will deal a coup de grâce to the nation’s vestigial ills. But such efforts seem misplaced. Constitutions everywhere are seldom panaceas, and no legal document will right the

By Tom Francis

/ 17 Aug 2011