RULE OF LAW

Bingham on the rule of law as a political pre-constitution - 2015, 174, 5
breaking the law and non-coercion clauses in legislation - 1967, 16, 54
can the rule of law be abandoned? - 2005, 154, 35
certainty, people need this about what rules govern them: both formal law and customary practices - 2020, 184, 25
concepts of rule of law: from formal quality of rules & processes to values based positions - 2015, 174, 5
cost of getting justice, threat to UK rule of law due to - 2020, 184, 7
Covid 19: laws seems to exemplify legal positivism & undermine rule of law due to inability to plan - 2020, 184, 25
derogation from, criteria for - 1972, 34, 5
Deuteronomy 17 & wider Old Testament as argument for rule of law with King subject to it; justice fundamental to God's nature & incumbent on his people - 2015, 175, 166
Edmund Plowden and the rule of law - 2011, 167, 5
equality before the law - 2008, 161, 75
ethically based theories of law, analysis of: Shklar, Bankowski, Wolterstorff, Fuller - 2015, 174, 5
European Convention on Human Rights: upholding the rule of law as essential - 2001, 146, 5
importance of, and disregard by Hitler - 2003, 150, 10
injustice often not through unjust laws but through law not being applied to all eg the poor - 2020, 184, 7
judgement as justification for political rule - O'Donovan - 2006, 156, 37
judicial independence, principles for securing - 1989, 102/103, 44 and 55
judicial independence, problems with and protection of, in Latin America - 1989, 102/103, 30
leftist critique as objectifying law above human relations and actual justice - 2015, 174, 5
legal aid: need for; risks of denying access to justice for all - 2015, 175, 166
legal systems that hold all men equal compared to police states - 2003, 150, 10
Magna Carta, asserting the rule of law - 2001, 146, 5
Magna Carta: history & analysis of, definition of rule of law and necessity of access to justice - 2015, 175, 166
Magna Carta as icon of constitutionalism: its adaptability & values but also its failures - 2015, 174, 5
Michael Gove on importance of rule of law and access to justice for the poor - 2015, 175, 166
O'Sullivan (Richard) and other Christian views of the rule of law in England - 2013, 170, 19
Opderbeck, David on the importance of the rule of law - 2022, 189, 157
regime change in Iraq, squaring this with the rule of law - 2005, 154, 35
relationship between law & state: courts, constitution, common law and/or statute as constraints on states - 2015, 174, 5
rule of law as collective, relational, virtue and law generating ethos of a people - 2015, 174, 5
rule of law as form vs substance, whole state vs judicial branch, abstract vs particular - 2015, 174, 5
Schluter on a relational view of law - 2015, 174, 5
social / cultural preconditions of rule of law means imposition often fails in new democracies - 2015, 174, 5
Venice Commission (2011): consensus components of rule of law - 2015, 174, 5
virtues required for proper legal relations: honesty, self-discipline, even-handedness, natural justice, disinterestedness etc - 2015, 174, 5
World Bank Institute measures rule of law as component of economic development: correlates ethical personal & institutional behaviour - 2015, 174, 5
Germany
overthrown in Nazi Germany by Hitler's 'Empowering Acts' 1933/4 - 2014, 172, 4 & 1
powers of government all permeated by law as reaction to Nazi history - 2015, 174, 5
United States of America
perversion of system of justice by criminals - 1979, 60/61, 32

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