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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2021

Edited by
Jens Meierhenrich  and
Martin Loughlin
Jens Meierhenrich
Affiliation:
London School of Economics
Martin Loughlin
Affiliation:
London School of Economics

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The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law , pp. vii - ix
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

Contents

  1. List of Contributors

  2. Part IIntroduction

    1. Thinking about the Rule of Law

      Jens Meierhenrich and Martin Loughlin

  3. Part IIHistories

    1. 1Classical Athens’ Radical Democratic “Rule of Law”

      Adriaan Lanni

    2. 2Rechtsstaat versus the Rule of Law

      Jens Meierhenrich

    3. 3État de droit: The Gallicization of the Rechtsstaat

      Luc Heuschling

    4. 4Islamic Conceptions of the Rule of Law

      Lawrence Rosen

    5. 5Empires and the Rule of Law: Arbitrary Justice and Imperial Legal Ordering

      Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford

  4. Part IIIMoralities

    1. 6The Rule of Law as an Essentially Contested Concept

      Jeremy Waldron

    2. 7The Rule of Law in Montesquieu

      Sharon R. Krause

    3. 8The Spirit of Legality: A. V. Dicey and the Rule of Law

      Mark D. Walters

    4. 9Michael Oakeshott’s Republican Theory of the Rule of Law

      Martin Loughlin

    5. 10The Morality of the Rule of Law: Lon L. Fuller

      Kristen Rundle

    6. 11E. P. Thompson and the Rule of Law: Qualifying the Unqualified Good

      Douglas Hay

    7. 12Functions of the Rule of Law

      Brian Z. Tamanaha

    8. 13A Positive Theory of the Rule of Law

      Gillian K. Hadfield, Jens Meierhenrich, and Barry R. Weingast

  5. Part IVPathologies

    1. 14Thomas Hobbes and the Rule by Law Tradition

      David Dyzenhaus

    2. 15Conservative Critiques of the Rechtsstaat

      Peter C. Caldwell

    3. 16Judith Shklar’s Critique of Legalism

      Seyla Benhabib and Paul Linden-Retek

    4. 17The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law

      William E. Scheuerman

    5. 18Critical Legal Studies and the Rule of Law

      Mark Tushnet

    6. 19Feminist Critiques of the Rule of Law

      Vanessa E. Munro

    7. 20Critical Race Theory and the Rule of Law

      Khiara M. Bridges

  6. Part VTrajectories

    1. 21(Economic) Development and the Rule of Law

      Shane Chalmers and Sundhya Pahuja

    2. 22Democracy and the Rule of Law

      Martin Krygier

    3. 23Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law

      Roberto Gargarella

    4. 24Punishment in the Rule of Law

      Lindsay Farmer

    5. 25Populism and the Rule of Law

      Nicola Lacey

    6. 26An “International Rule of Law Movement”?

      Stephen Humphreys

    7. 27Rule of Law Measurement

      Tom Ginsburg and Mila Versteeg

    8. 28Post-Conflict Rule of Law

      Jane E. Stromseth

    9. 29A Global Rule of Law

      Anne Orford

  7. Part VIConclusion

    1. 30What the Rule of Law Is … and Is Not

      Jens Meierhenrich

  8. Bibliography

  9. Index

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