{"id":6049,"date":"2005-06-28T15:40:11","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T15:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/06\/there-ought-to-be-a-law.html"},"modified":"2005-06-28T15:40:11","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T15:40:11","slug":"there-ought-to-be-a-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/06\/there-ought-to-be-a-law.html","title":{"rendered":"There Ought to be a Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

2 Catholic women from opposites side of the globe are responsible for codifying the law of Uganda<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ann Bateson of Minnesota and Vastina Rukimirana Nsanze of Uganda have a lot in common besides the faith that sustains them. They are both attorneys in their late 50s who were brought together by an unusual goal: refining law and life in Uganda.<\/p>\n

Nsanze, Uganda’s commissioner of law revision since 1995, returned to Uganda this June after she and Bateson spent 10 years together compiling the scattered laws of Uganda into one cohesive database.<\/p>\n

They first worked together 13 years ago when Bateson, now 59, spent a month in Uganda as a consultant to the government on law reform. Nsanze was executive secretary of the Uganda Law Reform Commission.<\/p>\n

"My staff thought I was crazy to go," recalled Bateson, a member of St. Rose of Lima Parish in Roseville, who was Minnesota’s deputy reviser of statutes for four years and teaches at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul.<\/p>\n

Ugandan law had not been codified since 1964.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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