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November 1, 2014

Kimberley Motley: How I defend the rule of law

15:26 minutes · Filmed Oct 2014 · Posted Oct 2014 · TEDGlobal 2014

Everyone deserves protection under the law — even when that law is forgotten or ignored. In this astonishing talk, Kimberley Motley, an American lawyer working in Afghanistan and elsewhere, shares three powerful stories from her own cases.

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  I was interested in how she handles the language barrier with the Persian language family. The Constitution of Afghanistan names Pashto and Dari as the official languages, as well as regional languages where the third language is spoken by a majority.

There is some good journalistic coverage of Kimberley Motley, but few of the pieces I found mention the linguistic difficulty. The best piece I managed to dig up is "The Former Beauty Queen Lawyering in Afghanistan's Sharia Courts" by Kevin Sites (Vice, October 2014) which does delve a bit into the legal context. Sites reports that Kimberly "relies on computers and her legal assistant to translate legal text and passages from the Qur'an".

Lawyering through an interpreter is a lousy way to split hairs. She must really be striking the root to be effective at all. Amazing person, amazing story."
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