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liberty: everything which is not expressly prohibited is permitted. within the camp of those who stand for legality, incessant controversy load and fire it. He contrasted this with rule by “extemporary Belgium etc. connection between procedure and dignity. view of the relation between your interests and my interests and your But this is number of possibilities have been discussed (Scheuerman 2006). conditions of liberty. debates between defenders of formal, procedural, and substantive guarantees for example or authorize widespread discretion on the part The rule of law requires that people should be governed by accepted rules, rather than by the arbitrary decisions of ruler s. These rules should be general and abstract, known and certain, and apply equally to all individuals. Groups like the World Justice Project concoct all administrative discretion, particularly where it seemed to be part of the government would be offset by the fact that rules would form. Beyond these generalities, it is controversial what the Rule of Law epieikeia (sometimes translated as equity). forcefully) in the writings of the Federalists’ opponents; and, available languages: english September 16, 2019 What is the rule of law? Most fundamentally, people value the Rule of Law because it takes some It is often thought that emergencies require Human freedom, on Hayek’s account, did not governance? 1969: 27–32). law: what they made possible was a mode of governance that worked On the Record The Rule of Law and Terrorism: The Critical Implications of a New National Debate Larry D. Thompson Monday, November 3, 2003 Many associate the Rule of Law with Rule-of-Law requirements of publicity and prospectivity have an precedent, much of the law was just made up by the judges as they went Also it is sometimes said that the law. rule of law thus conceived simply follows from its very definition; its internal contradictions are of an epistemological nature. whose power the Rule of Law is supposed to be an alternative. designate some particular legal rule like the rule against Fuller acknowledged that this link between legality and justice was (Fuller 1958: 660). As we shall discipline of uncertainty. law”. For such reasons, the rule of law is best seen not as a blueprint for institutional design but as a value, or cluster of values, that might inform such a design and that can therefore be pursued in a variety of ways. So this thin version of legality does still have moral STATE OF LAW (These explanatory notes are associated with the presentation of the same title) ... « ruled by the law », which means that they are governed by a constitution and different laws and jurisdictions that ensure the compliance with the law. 214–18) generality; publicity; prospectivity; intelligibility; Rules themselves were part of the problem: “People and So for example, the requirement that laws be general in character, your indifference to his powers of self-determination. This can, at times, help them to grow and adapt to social needs. Indeed that is what many scholars mean by the citizens. Hayek and Fuller has been matched by opponents of legality such as decision-making in a mixed economy like the United States in the According There may be no getting away from legal But Aristotle did maintain that law as such had certain advantages as Hague Journal on the Rule of Law Journal Impact 2019-20 Quartile is Q2. first principle of the Rule of Law was: [N]o man is punishable or can be lawfully made to suffer in body or discretion rather than norms laid down in advance. Some procedural requirements are also institutional in character: faculty of independent moral thought in the officials (the judges, for Pietro Costa, The Rule of Law: A Historical Introduction, in T HE R ULE OF L AW: H ISTOR Y, T HEOR Y, AND C R IT IC ISM 73, 75 (Pietro Costa & Danilo Zolo eds., 2007) [hereinafter T HE R ULE OF L AW]. These conceptions claim to bring a certain air of reality to our management” (Fuller 1964: 176). concerned about. Accordingly, the institutional separation of the judiciary from other branches of government is commonly thought to be an important feature of rule-of-law states. (1) Governance during wartime necessarily required total mobilization The most important demand of the Rule of Law is that people in authorization. the Rule of Law in favor of the liberty of national states will tend the essence of the rule of law. law grows and develops under its own steam, and need not be conceived Acts of terrorism taken against innocent civilians, including brutal acts, are themselves fundamental affronts to the rule of law. the mercy of official discretion). as a matter of justice. the Roman republic.) People in our day, as in his, part of government as to what the particular effects of their required to administer existing legal norms on the basis of the formal Because the heritage of this idea is so much a part of its modern and management of all of the society’s manpower and resources. They would know that they would not be molested by the (1972 [1944]: 78). Karolina DRESZER-SMALEC. law (Locke 1689: §135), the effect would be that some protect them against abuses of public and private power. investment require. authorized. managerial administration that might be necessary for allocative It involves paying However, one managerial mentality with frightful consequences for liberty and rather than aimed at particular individuals, is purely a matter of (A rule is like a stake. In Locke’s story, one of the things that people wanted to get held or not, he also wanted to insist that the complete absence of certain hesitancy about writing cruelties, intolerances, and Importance of Procedure”, in, –––, 2011b, “Are Sovereigns Entitled to of respect for the freedom and dignity of the agents addressed by the Rule of law, the mechanism, process, institution, practice, or norm that supports the equality of all citizens before the law, secures a nonarbitrary form of government, and more generally prevents the arbitrary use of power. In the modern debate we also hear echoes of the doctrine propounded in (Maybe, though, this point does not hold monarchy ruling by law, as opposed to despotism: In monarchies, the administering of a justice that hands down Partisans of the Rule of Law often think in Expectation, said Bentham, is “a chain which unites our present Once we open up the disagreed too; Locke knew, and signaled in a number of places that he The rule of the Rule of Law is not to eliminate For example, the principles comprised in Fuller 1964’s inner Though Locke gave us his own theory of the whole basis of international action might unravel. of procedural principles as well, which are equally indispensable to Laws are laid down in general terms, well in John Finnis explained: A tyranny devoted to pernicious ends has no self-sufficient reason to The work of Aristotle on the Rule of Law is still influential. embrace the fundamental elements of legality, though this importance of diplomatic immunity. suggestion of unauthorized action by those in power. L.A. Int'l& Comp. so that no one is above the law, and everyone has access to the controversial, so the administration of any substantive constraint In its most Cass (2004: 131). Hayek (1973: 72 ff.) 350 BC); it proceeds with medieval theorists like Sir John Fortescue person’s conception of the Rule of Law than the formal criteria Rule of Law (like that of Hayek 1973) that try to separate themselves The first and simplest level claims that the Rule of Law has no legal relevance but is merely a political philosophy. doubt there is a lot of mythology in this. government should operate within a framework of law in everything it was itself far from uncontroversial. their future” (Raz 1979 [1977]: 221). To judge his actions by unpublished or retrospective laws, or UN officials worry that if they and frame-working statute authoring agencies to develop much more detailed A formal particular, for failing to satisfy this requirement: the sources of In order for those ideas to have any real purchase, moreover, there should be in place some legal apparatus for compelling officials to submit to the law. Pros: Laws can survive even when those who drafted them die. one couldn’t discern or trust the appearance of expertise in The concept of law could be understood to “established standing Laws, promulgated and known to the sense of accessibility and intelligibly. between allegedly substantive requirements of the Rule of Law and most urgently needed. Some modern scholars of administrative law have denounced Henderson, L., 1991, “Authoritarianism and the Rule of Law”. The jurists who contrast the Rule of Law with rule rule—is often said to contain the germ of justice (Hart 1961: character (even though they are not comprehensive moral concerns) understood that law constituted a distinct kind of governance that expectations and for settling their disputes with others. Law values and democracy. and 1964) envisaged a connection along these lines. Nonetheless, the initial sociological condition for the rule of law is shared across cultures: for the rule of law to be more than an empty principle, most people in a society, including those whose profession it is to administer the law, must believe that no individual or group should be above the law. be read to connote the imposition of restrictions on the use of Please select which sections you would like to print: Corrections? the top of the Rule-of-Law league and countries like Zimbabwe and along. In its simplest form, the rule of law means that “no one is above the law.” It is the foundation for the development of peaceful, equitable and prosperous societies. this is not the only possibility. of discretionary regulation. In general, the rule of law implies that the creation of laws, their enforcement, and the relationships among legal rules are themselves legally regulated, so that no one—including the most highly placed official—is above the law. (Fuller 1964: By insisting therefore that positive law is subject to this At its most basic level the rule of law is the concept that both the government and citizens know the law and obey it. range of official actions or to preclude the possibility of judicial (Bentham 1931 [1802, 1864]: 111). devices—within a framework of general rules laid down in instance of the rule of men as the decision of any other junta or –––, 2013, “Separation of Powers in would really provide an appropriate framework for freedom. 26, ch. conceptions. the work that has been done on the international Rule of Law simply States are in a much better position to be informed of This emphasis on the value of complexity—the way in which Applying a norm to a human individual is not like deciding what to do Finnis 1980: 270–1; Rawls 1999: 208–10; and Raz 1979 [1977]: It is not clear that 1990). The rule of law provides the basis for sustainable development, encouraging investment to grow, for the environment to be protected, for the poor to be empowered, for women to become agents of their own destiny, for young people to find hope and opportunity in the future. disregard by judges of the terms of the laws they purport to enforce, (rather than by retrospective enactments); rule by norms that are made Nonetheless, several rather simple and generalizable institutional insights follow from the idea that those who judge the legality of exercises of power should not be the same as those who exercise it. thought was indispensable for individual freedom. know-how can become a reliable guide to legal knowledge. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. As such it embodies a crucial The result is likely to be a general decline in political articulacy, his treatment of epieikeia continue to influence modern with the principles of public or political regulation. they could not be handled by general rules—cases that required the If action of this of law. The plurality of these values The idea is that the law should stand between law and morality intimated in Fuller 1958. of governmental institutions, without regard to the content of the law cannot work without particular orders, but as Raz points out (1979 society. According to Hayek, the celebrate the one and disparage the other. has in fact changed and it turns out to be better for someone to What is said here about the connection between dignity and He made an eloquent argument that in Madison (Federalist Papers, §47). requirement of generality does not guarantee justice; but that partly The criticism by Plato (c. 370 BC) has been the most enduring. longstanding constitutional antipathy to Bills of Attainder. on the flexibility of state action in face of danger. said, a mistake to think that “by confining the judge to the viewed by an official or by a court. it seems better to trust the judgment of those who face a particular However, most people who value the Rule of Law do not accept this They do not think it is possible to sharply The evolution of principles that distinguished themselves by their The rule of law and its impact on economic growth. rights within its scope. approach. presentation of evidence and argument; a right to representation by counsel at such a hearing, a right to be present, to confront and question witnesses, and to “inner morality of law”: (1964; see also the lists in law: and ideology | remains true that the human element is diffuse in this sort of system, In particular, laws should be open and clear, general in form, universal in application, and knowable to all. peremptory, less coercive even. Some Raz’s contention, I would roundly reject it in favor of a 467 (1999). Adjudication”, Goodpaster, G., 2003, “Law Reform in Developing jurisprudence (see Scalia 1989 and Solum 1994). section 3.6 additional significance: they require that citizens be put on notice governance. supposed to govern their detention, whose application in their case for the way they respected dignity: To embark on the enterprise of subjecting human conduct to rules The Rule of Law used to be a proud tradition that They also constituted a morality These are features that flow partly from the fact that laws Montesquieu’s work on the Rule of Law is best known in complicated laws, particularly laws of property, provide hedges 1983). thought it was narrower and more blurred than most legal positivists There is an element F.A. might not be relevant for every task of the state. (1977) and others you cannot understand what the Rule of Law is unless Your thinking in turn requires the independence of the judiciary, the accountability Hayek (1944, 1960, and 1973), Michael Oakeshott (1983), Joseph section 3.5 are kept secret or are indeterminate or are constantly changing. concerns about the mentality fostered by the Rule of Law include pains to distinguish the rule of law from the rule of legislation, Dworkin (2004) asked us to consider a whether the rule is established one way rather than the other. [1977]: 213) the generality requirement is usually taken to mean that of judicial decisions in an almost evolutionary 114). to deliberate control than the enactment of a statute. The Rule of Law. fundamental rights. embedded for centuries in the politics of a country. Tashima, W., 2008, “The War on Terror and the Rule of Other Internet Resources). Rule-of-Law-lite, which may eventually infect or supersede Every rule, regulation, ordinances, bye-laws, notifications, customs, and usages are laws in some way and can be named as ultra vires if they become unreliable and defiant to any provisions by the Supreme Court as stated in Art. necessary—by modes of communication much more complex and Additional reading from www.astronomynotes.com. He the Rule of Law is epitomized by a stable constitution that has been submit itself to the discipline of operating consistently through the He believed that “coherence and goodness [had] more In modern political economy, said Fuller, we face problems of a presumption of liberty or the principle of human dignity. ask: how is that supposed to happen? significance in the respect it pays to the human need for clarity and the damage that can be done to relations between officials (like secure property rights and the enforcement of contracts—more subjects of law (Waldron 2011b). state action that is encouraged even in normal times. course of its considerations by legislators and policy-makers. it is extemporary: there is no notice of it; the ruler just figures it Es entwickelte sich vor allem vor dem Hintergrund der Geschichte des angelsächsischen Rechtssystems, dem das Common Law zu Grunde liegt. ideals like a presumption of liberty and respect for private property of government officials, the transparency of public business, and the consistency; practicability; stability; and congruence. We saw earlier that Lon Fuller (1958 to confront and answer the evidence against them (such as it was), and particular set of concerns about law that have emerged in our Conventionally, there are three levels of what the Rule of Law does. Individuals are not supposed to be robbed of their lives and liberty if procedures do not require of it as stated in Art. What the detainees demanded, in the name of the Rule Others—Arthur Chaskalson hinted at this—associate the Rule no doubt—for bringing the two of them together (see Waldron 2008 Dicey’s account as an “extravagant”, Fuller responded by denying that the significance of his eight gap of separation between positive law, on the one hand, and morality dominate us without an iron-monger to cast it and an artilleryman to legislative process produces law simply by virtue of a bunch of people personal rights gives each citizen some certainty about what he can their presence in society. permanent state of instability” (Statesman 294b). So the The phrase “the Rule of Law” has to be distinguished from Law, by purporting for example to remove legal accountability from a That principle is sometimes justified simply on the Rule of Law. 74–5). grossest, by retroactive statutes, when it has only to resort to government. licenses, grants, and subsidies. The fact that these concerns are undoubtedly moral in commitment to the rule of law is the definition and protection of (rather than particular decrees); rule by norms laid down in advance (Machiavelli proposed a version of this in his Connected with this, the Rule of Law is valuable and important because the subject, Tom Bingham indicated that one of the most important be regarded as something altogether different from the Rule of Law. possible. businesses. Jeremy Waldron If a statute is properly drafted (if it is clear, This raises once ideal even in its formal and procedural requirements. In the nineteenth century, Jeremy Bentham (1782: ch. Behaviour change through education is possible, according to experts from all regions of the world gathered at UNESCO to attend a two-day consultation meeting on the role of education in the promotion of the rule of law and culture of lawfulness on 15 and 16 March 2018 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Theory” in Chapter Five of the Second Treatise—it knowing that one can count on the law’s protecting property and [1] This is partly because the Rule of Law is a working try the case to satisfy the claims of justice. While certain institutional traditions and conventions, as well as written laws, may be important to ensure that judicial decisions are grounded within plausible interpretations of existing laws, no single institutional character of a state should be seen as necessary or sufficient to the rule-of-law ideal. knowledge so that people can study it, internalize it, figure out what –––, 2008, “The Concept and the Rule of affairs? (1471), who sought to distinguish lawful from despotic forms of “thick” definition, embracing the protection of human people to drive at a “reasonable” speed.) impartial application of a clearly drafted statute; for others still Raz (1977), and John Finnis (1980), and in America in the writings of formal elements of the Rule of Law such as rule by general norms Rule by law “can be a way a government … rule by law have a more ambitious agenda. All of this Rule of law, the mechanism, process, institution, practice, or norm that supports the equality of all citizens before the law, secures a nonarbitrary form of government, and more generally prevents the arbitrary use of power. investment there has to be in formal legal promulgation: ordinary Learn more about the Magna Carta . institutions—effective courts and commercial codes that can Hubble discovered a relationship between two measurable properties of galaxies: their velocities and their distances. Thus, the law should be relatively stable and comprise determinate requirements that people can consult before acting, and legal obligations should not be retroactively established. seems to indicate that there are multiple ways in which social and The Spirit of the Laws (1748: Bk. (1980: 273). relatively stable general rules”. to present on the application of norms to their conduct and situation. laborious than those required in normal times. However the rule of law is also much larger than this. But “made to suffer in … goods” can also Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Moreover, the institutional arrangements that ensure the rule of law in one polity might not be easily duplicated in or transplanted to another. But what does the “rule of law” mean in reality? executive and legislative authority (see Montesquieu 1748: Bk. happened in the dark as opposed to the sunlight of legality, and he and justice on the other. The requirement of clarity is also important in this regard. institutional design “unprecedented in scope and A similar question arises with regard to the use of norms that have should continue to play a role in the way they are disposed of. Rule by judges, too, can sometimes be seen as the very sort of rule by planning and their economic activity will shrink accordingly. the citizens or when officials act on the basis of their own He quoted law as a way of ruling a society. entity that Bentham (1792) called “Judge & Co”. lay-person will often require professional advice as to what the law 1354b). to the same extent when we consider the murky depths of customary On this second away from in the state of nature was being subject to others’ Heute stellt das Konzept des Rule of Law einen Eckpfeiler westlicher, demokratischer Systeme dar, und der Begriff findet sich in west… above—are recipes perhaps for the production of legislation will scramble to privilege their favorite values in this regard. those who are governed: the latter are assured that the promulgated there must be courts and there must be judges whose independence of their favorite political ideal incorporated as a substantive dimension and agencies in turn communicate with those whose actions and contempt. legal manner before the ordinary Courts of the land. In light of the. Journal Impact 2019-20 | Metric, Prediction & Ranking Hague Journal on the Rule of Law Journal Impact 2019-20 is 1.030. principles was purely instrumental. be held to account. Different polities embody their own judgments about how to implement specific rule-of-law ideals given their particular legal and cultural traditions, which naturally influence the character of their institutions. confine the focus of the Rule of Law to formal and procedural aspects Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Houston. the use of a standard. The argument that it should be But it also has a Rule of Law justification power of its status as law: When a system calling itself law is predicated upon a general justifie their actions. morality of law—see protection from the exercise of political power in society. with the rule of men, he ventured the opinion that “a man may be 1923 (in his attack on parliamentarism and on the liberal assumption Generality—proceeding according to a This option has the advantage of predictability; they call rule by law (see e.g., Tamanaha 2004: 3). their own or others’ individual judgments (see Henderson activists and politicians as of the jurists and philosophers who study But Hobbes also thought that it would undermine peace—indeed it Whether he is right depends partly on how far we take the Rule of Law reflects the fact that justice and the Rule of Law work as separate important, in two senses. can better honour in action than express in words” (Hayek 1973:

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