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The Judiciary
Troubador Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 9.50It is the story of a system which is protected by self-regulation and the separation of powers and which has thrived because of the unwritten Code of Practice. more...
Democracy and the Rule of Law
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 27.00This 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...
Can Might Make Rights?
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 30.00This 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 Law
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 35.00This 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...
Rule of Law Reform and Development
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...
Access to Justice and Legal Empowerment
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...
Relocating the Rule of Law
Hart Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 91.80In this set of interdisciplinary essays leading scholars discuss the future of the Rule of Law, a concept whose meaning and import has become ever more topical and elusive. Historically the term denoted the idea of 'government limited by law'. It has also come to be equated, more broadly, with certain goods suggested by the idea of legality... more...
Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 124.95Offering an anthropological perspective, this book explores the changing relations between law and governance, examining how changes in the structure of governance affect the relative social significance of law within situations of legal pluralism. more...
Introduction to Public Law
BRILL 2008; US$ 122.00Drawing on historical and comparative analysis of England, France, Germany and the United States, this book offers an approach to public law, defined as the law of the public good. It traces the origins of the res publica to Roman law, and it analyzes the course of its development. more...
The Rule of Law in Comparative Perspective
Springer 2010; US$ 129.99This new volume on The Rule of Law in Comparative Perspective compares the different conceptions of the rule of law that have developed in different legal cultures. Lawyers and legal scholars from various legal systems describe the social purposes and practical applications of the rule of law, and how it might be improved in the varied circumstances... more...









