The Rule of Law in Comparative Perspective

This 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 of their own courts and politics.

This book will be of interest to lawyers, judges, public officials, and to all those wishing to improve the fundamental structures of their own legal systems, by bringing equal justice to every person subject to the power of the state.

List of contents

1. An Introduction to the Rule of Law in Comparative Perspective ; Mortimer Sellers .- 2. The Rule of Law in Ancient Greek Thought ; Fred D. Miller, Jr .- 3. The Liberal State and Criminal Law Reform in Spain ; Aniceto Masferrer .- 4. Some Realism about Legal Certainty in the Globalization of the Rule of Law ; James R. Maxeiner .- 5. Is Goal-Based Regulation Consistent with the Rule of Law? S.J.A. ter Borg, W.S.R. Stoter .- 6. Reflections on Shakespeare and the Rule of Law; Robert W. Peterson .- 7. America s Constitutional Rule of Law: Structure and Symbol, Not Substance and Rights; Robin Charlow .- 8. Constitutions without Constitutionalism: The Failure of Constitutionalism in Brazil; Augusto Zimmermann .- 9. Rule of Law, Power Distribution, and the Problem of Faction in Conflict Interventions ; Daniel Levine .- 10. The Rule of Law in Transitional Justice: The Fujimori Trial in Peru ; Lisa J. Laplante .- 11. The Interaction of Customary Law with the Modern Rule of Law in Albania and Kosova ; Genc Trnavci .- 12. Dualism, Domestic Courts, and the Rule of International Law ; Fiona de Londras

Summary

This volume compares the different conceptions of the rule of law that have developed in different legal cultures. It describes the social purposes and practical applications of the rule of law and how it might be improved in the varied circumstances.

Product details

• Assisted by: Mortime Sellers (Editor), Mortimer Sellers (Editor), Mortimer N. S. Sellers (Editor), Tomaszewski (Editor), Tomaszewski (Editor), Tadeusz Tomaszewski (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.05.2012
• EAN: 9789400732056
• ISBN: 978-94-0-073205-6
• No. of pages: 253
• Weight: 412 g
• Illustrations: XII, 253 p.
• Series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice; Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Recht, B, Law, Political Science, Verfassungs- und Verwaltungsrecht, International Law, Private International Law, Law and Criminology, Law, general, Fundamentals of Law, Conflict of Laws, comparative law, Jurisprudence & general issues, Law—Philosophy, Methods, theory & philosophy of law, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Philosophy of Law, Constitutional Law, Constitutional & administrative law: general