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| Author | : Brian Z. Tamanaha |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2006-10-02 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1139459228 |
The contemporary US legal culture is marked by ubiquitous battles among various groups attempting to seize control of the law and wield it against others in pursuit of their particular agenda. This battle takes place in administrative, legislative, and judicial arenas at both the state and federal levels. This book identifies the underlying source of these battles in the spread of the instrumental view of law - the idea that law is purely a means to an end - in a context of sharp disagreement over the social good. It traces the rise of the instrumental view of law in the course of the past two centuries, then demonstrates the pervasiveness of this view of law and its implications within the contemporary legal culture, and ends by showing the various ways in which seeing law in purely instrumental terms threatens to corrode the rule of law.
| Author | : Tom Bingham |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2011-07-07 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0141962011 |
'A gem of a book ... Inspiring and timely. Everyone should read it' Independent 'The Rule of Law' is a phrase much used but little examined. The idea of the rule of law as the foundation of modern states and civilisations has recently become even more talismanic than that of democracy, but what does it actually consist of? In this brilliant short book, Britain's former senior law lord, and one of the world's most acute legal minds, examines what the idea actually means. He makes clear that the rule of law is not an arid legal doctrine but is the foundation of a fair and just society, is a guarantee of responsible government, is an important contribution to economic growth and offers the best means yet devised for securing peace and co-operation. He briefly examines the historical origins of the rule, and then advances eight conditions which capture its essence as understood in western democracies today. He also discusses the strains imposed on the rule of law by the threat and experience of international terrorism. The book will be influential in many different fields and should become a key text for anyone interested in politics, society and the state of our world.
| Author | : Paul Gowder |
| Publisher | : Hart Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-06-15 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 150995466X |
What is the American rule of law? Is it a paradigm case of the strong constitutionalism concept of the rule of law or has it fallen short of its rule of law ambitions? This open access book traces the promise and paradox of the American rule of law in three interwoven ways. It focuses on explicating the ideals of the American rule of law by asking: how do we interpret its history and the goals of its constitutional framers to see the rule of law ambitions its foundational institutions express? It considers those constitutional institutions as inextricable from the problem of race in the United States and the tensions between the rule of law as a protector of property rights and the rule of law as a restrictor on arbitrary power and a guarantor of legal equality. In that context, it explores the distinctive role of Black liberation movements in developing the American rule of law. Finally, it considers the extent to which the American rule of law is compromised at its frontiers, and the extent that those compromises undermine legal protections Americans enjoy in the interior. It asks how America reflects the legal contradictions of capitalism and empire outside its borders, and the impact of those contradictions on its external goals. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and the Northwestern Open Access Fund, provided by Northwestern University Libraries.
| Author | : Nick Cheesman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2015-03-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107083184 |
A striking new analysis of Myanmar's court system, revealing how the rule of law is 'lexically present but semantically absent'.
| Author | : Jothie Rajah |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2012-04-16 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1107012414 |
Through a focus on Singapore, this book presents an analysis of authoritarian legalism, showing how prosperity, public discourse, and a rigorous observance of legal procedure enable a reconfigured rule of law - liberal form but illiberal content. It shows how institutions and process become tools to constrain dissenting citizens while protecting those in political power.
| Author | : James R. Silkenat |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 2014-05-28 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 3319055852 |
This book explores the development of both the civil law conception of the Legal State and the common law conception of the Rule of Law. It examines the philosophical and historical background of both concepts, as well as the problem of the interrelation between the two doctrines. The book brings together twenty-five leading scholars from around the world and provides both general and specific jurisdictional perspectives of the issue in both contemporary and historical settings. The Rule of Law is a legal doctrine the meaning of which can only be fully appreciated in the context of both the common law and the European civil law tradition of the Legal State (Rechtsstaat). The Rule of Law and the Legal State are fundamental safeguards of human dignity and of the legitimacy of the state and the authority of state prescriptions.
| Author | : Adam Przeworski |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2003-07-21 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9780521532662 |
This book addresses the question of why governments sometimes follow the law and other times choose to evade the law. The traditional answer of jurists has been that laws have an autonomous causal efficacy: law rules when actions follow anterior norms; the relation between laws and actions is one of obedience, obligation, or compliance. Contrary to this conception, the authors defend a positive interpretation where the rule of law results from the strategic choices of relevant actors. Rule of law is just one possible outcome in which political actors process their conflicts using whatever resources they can muster: only when these actors seek to resolve their conflicts by recourse to la, does law rule. What distinguishes 'rule-of-law' as an institutional equilibrium from 'rule-by-law' is the distribution of power. The former emerges when no one group is strong enough to dominate the others and when the many use institutions to promote their interest.
| Author | : Geranne Lautenbach |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2013-11 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0199671192 |
1: Introduction 2: The Rule of Law Concept 3: Legality as a Concept in the Case Law 4: Judicial Safeguards 5: The Substantive Contents of Law 6: Democracy 7: Conclusion.
| Author | : James Crawford |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 485 |
| Release | : 2012-01-26 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1107493439 |
This intellectually rigorous introduction to international law encourages readers to engage with multiple aspects of the topic: as 'law' directing and shaping its subjects; as a technique for governing the world of states and beyond statehood; and as a framework within which several critical and constructivist projects are articulated. The articles situate international law in its historical and ideological context and examine core concepts such as sovereignty, jurisdiction and the state. Attention is also given to its operation within international institutions and in dispute settlement, and a separate section is devoted to international law's 'projects': protecting human rights, eradicating poverty, the conservation of resources, the regulation of international trade and investment and the establishment of international order. The diverse group of contributors draws from disciplinary orientations ranging from positivism to postmodernism to ensure that this book is informed theoretically and politically, as well as grounded in practice.
| Author | : Paul Gowder |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2016-02-09 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 131649554X |
In The Rule of Law in the Real World, Paul Gowder defends a new conception of the rule of law as the coordinated control of power and demonstrates that the rule of law, thus understood, creates and preserves social equality in a state. In a highly engaging, interdisciplinary text that moves seamlessly from theory to reality, using examples ranging from Ancient Greece through the present, Gowder sheds light on how societies have achieved the rule of law, how they have sustained it in the face of political upheaval, and how it may be measured and developed in the future. The Rule of Law in the Real World is an essential work for scholars, students, policymakers, and anyone else who believes the rule of law is critical to the proper functioning of society.
