The Rule of Law History, Theory and Criticism
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, a
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The Rule of Law History, Theory and Criticism
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THE RULE OF LAW
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Law and Philosophy Library VOLUME 80
Managing Editors FRANCISCO J. LAPORTA, Department of Law, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain ALEKSANDER PECZENIK†, Department of Law, University of Lund, Sweden FREDERICK SCHAUER, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. Former Managing Editors AULIS AARNIO, MICHAEL D. BAYLES†, CONRAD D. JOHNSON†, ALAN MABE Editorial Advisory Board AULIS AARNIO, Research Institute for Social Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland ´ ZENON BANKOWSKI, Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh PAOLO COMANDUCCI, University of Genoa, Italy ERNESTO GARZÓN VALDÉS, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz JOHN KLEINIG, Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York NEIL MacCORMICK, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium WOJCIECH SADURSKI, European University Institute, Department of Law, Florence, Italy ROBERT S. SUMMERS, School of Law, Cornell University CARL WELLMAN, Department of Philosophy, Washington University
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The Rule of Law History, Theory and Criticism Edited by PIETRO COSTA University of Florence, Italy
DANILO ZOLO University of Florence, Italy
With the cooperation of Emilio Santoro
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A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-1-4020-5744-1 (HB) ISBN 978-1-4020-5745-8 (e-book)
Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Pietro Costa and Danilo Zolo Part I
INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS
1 The Rule of Law: A Critical Reappraisal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Danilo Zolo 2 The Rule of Law: A Historical Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Pietro Costa Part II THE RULE OF LAW IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES 3 The Rule of Law and the “Liberties of the English”: The Interpretation of Albert Venn Dicey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Emilio Santoro 4 Popular Sovereignty, the Rule of Law, and the “Rule of Judges” in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Brunella Casalini 5 Rechtsstaat and Individual Rights in G
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