Law, Liberty, and the Rule of Law

In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in concern for the rule of law. Not only have there been a multitude of articles and books on the essence, nature, scope and limitation of the law, but citizens, elected officials, law enforcement off

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IUS GENTIUM COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON LAW AND JUSTICE

VOLUME 18

Series Editors Mortimer N.S. Sellers University of Baltimore James Maxeiner University of Baltimore

Board of Editors Myroslava Antonovych, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Nadia de Araújo, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Jasna Bakšic-Muftic, University of Sarajevo David L. Carey Miller, University of Aberdeen Loussia P. Musse Félix, University of Brasilia Emanuel Gross, University of Haifa James E. Hickey, Jr., Hofstra University Jan Klabbers, University of Helsinki Cláudia Lima Marques, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Aniceto Masferrer, Univeristy of Valencia Eric Millard, West Paris University Gabriël Moens, Murdoch University Raul C. Pangalangan, University of the Philippines Ricardo Leite Pinto, Lusíada University of Lisbon Mizanur Rahman, University of Dhaka Keita Sato, Chuo University Poonam Saxena, University of Delhi Gerry Simpson, London School of Economics Eduard Somers, University of Ghent Xinqiang Sun, Shandong University Tadeusz Tomaszewski, Warsaw University Jaap de Zwaan, Erasmus University Rotterdam For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/7888

Imer B. Flores • Kenneth Einar Himma Editors

Law, Liberty, and the Rule of Law

Editors Imer B. Flores Law School and Legal Research Institute National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Mexico City, Mexico

Kenneth Einar Himma University of Washington School of Law Seattle, WA, USA

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