The Ideal of the Rule of Law

A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory: Second edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 666-674

  Marmor, Andrei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Application of laws to be administered impartial and independent courts, reasonably accessible to all; Conditions of rule of law can be violated, without rendering legal regime inoperable; Functionalist conception of rule of law and conditions essentially functional in nature; Ideal of the rule of law; Requirement of promulgation; Rule of law and what it actually requires; Rule of law, general normative principle one that can be attained in practice to various degrees; Second main controversy about rule of law ideal; Something morally good about meeting conditions of rule of law needing to be qualified; Values, we associate with rule of law being not moral values

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855837511     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444320114.ch48     Document Type: Chapter

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