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Conflict of Interest and Public Lifeby Christine Trost; Alison L. Gash
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 72.00This volume features a comparative account of ethics in regulations across four Western democracies. more...
Democracy and the Rule of Lawby José María Maravall; Adam Przeworski
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 26.00This book addresses the question of why governments sometimes follow the law and other times choose to evade the law. It interprets the rule of law as a strategic choice of actors with powerful interests, rather than as an exogenous constraint on politicians. more...
Recrafting the Rule of Lawby David Dyzenhaus
Hart 1999; US$ 172.80This collection of essays on the rule of law focuses on the traditional question of whether the rule of law is necessarily the rule of moral principles: the question of the legitimacy of law. more...
Can Might Make Rights?by Jane Stromseth; David Wippman; Rosa Brooks
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 29.00This book looks at why it's so difficult to create 'the rule of law' in post-conflict societies and shows how a narrow focus on building institutions such as courts and legislatures misses the more complex cultural issues that affect societal commitment to the values associated with the rule of law. more...
On The Rule of Lawby Brian Z. Tamanaha
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 34.00This book explores the history, politics, and theory surrounding the rule of law ideal. It examines the rule of law on a global level, and concludes by answering the question of whether the rule of law is a universal human good. more...
The Rule of Lawby Pietro Costa; Danilo Zolo
Springer 2007; US$ 169.00Costa and Zolo share the conviction that a proper understanding of the rule of law today requires referring to a global problematic horizon. It seems unavoidable to investigate into the relationship between Europe and the United States, on the one hand, and the rest of the world, on the other. Over the last centuries this relationship developed in terms of conquest and colonisation, on the widespread view that Western civilisation should be opposed as a whole to barbaric others. Today, however, the notion of rule of law is still rousing a debate that cannot be said to have come to an end. The reason is quite simple: if the origins of the rule of law are in Western societies and cultures, and if... more...
Political Constitutionalismby Richard Bellamy
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 33.00Questions the effectiveness and legitimacy of rights-based judicial review by constitutional courts. more...
Rule of Law Reform and Developmentby M.J. Trebilcock; R.J. Daniels
Edward Elgar Publishing 2008; US$ 40.00Addresses issues regarding the relationship between the rule of law and development. This book presents an inquiry into the orthodoxy that the rule of law is the panacea for the world's problems. It charts the progress of law reforms in overall terms and in specific policy areas. It is intended for students in this field. more...
The Jamestown Lectures 2006-2007by COMBAR
Hart 2008; US$ 56.40In April 2007 COMBAR held its annual meeting in conjunction with the University of Richmond, Virginia. The timing of the meeting was designed to form part of the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the signing of the Virginia Charter and the founding of Jamestown. The conference which was conducted at the meeting took as its topic The Rule of Law, and brought together lawyers from around the common law world (and some from outside) to debate the meaning and importance of this fundamentally important topic. Judges from the UK Court of Appeal and House of Lords were present to take part, along with members of the US Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal, and representatives from around the globe as well as from many different spheres of activity.... more...
Access to Justice and Legal Empowermentby Ineke van de Meene; Benjamin van Rooij
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 10.95This volume answers a number of basic questions about this new trend in legal development cooperation: reforms to improve poor people's access to justice and to promote their legal empowerment. more...