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How Kenya Cleaned Up Its Courts

A new constitution gave judicial reformers an opportunity to earn back the people’s trust. Here’s what they did with it.

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Maya Gainer is a senior research specialist at Innovations for Successful Societies, a public policy research center at Princeton University.

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