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The Rule of Law History, Theory and Criticism

Publication year: 2007

ISBN: 978-1-4020-5745-8

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Costa 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. The book intends to offer some relevant guides for orienting the reader through a political and legal debate where the rule of law (and the doctrine of ‘human rights’) is a concept both controversial and significant at the national and international levels.


Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, Bruno Leoni, Constitutionalism, Division of Power, Hans Kelsen, Human Rights, Kelsen, Machiavelli, Niccolò Machiavelli, Principle of Legality, Recht, Rule of Law, Staat, interpretation, justice, morality