Rule of law put to the test: The case of judicial rule-making by agreement

Netherlands International Law Review

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-98

  Kohne, Michiel ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 85011289649     PISSN: 0165070X     EISSN: 17416191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0165070X04000774     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. For the time being the term rule of law refers to the same idea as the continental versions of this concept, 'Rechtsstaat’ and 'Etat de droit’, although these are often claimed to be different from rule of law.
2. F.M. Kohne, Coordinatie van rechtspraak[The Co-ordination of Judicial Rule-making], PhD Dissertation (The Hague Boom Juridische Uitgevers 2000). 3. A. Terlouw, Uitspraak en afspraak, Samenwerking tussen vreemdelingenrechters bij ontbreken van hoger beroep[Court rulings and judicial agreements, Co-operation between immigration court judges in the absence of the right to appeal] (The Hague, Boom Juridische Uitgevers 2002).
3. K. Teuben, Rechtersregelingen in de zin van art. 79 Wet RO[Judicial rule-making by agreements as referred to by article 79 The act on Court Organisation] (The Hague, Jongbloed 2002).
4. Bregje Dijksterhuis, PhD research at Leiden University.
5. Based on earlier PhD research (Kane Human Rights in the World n. 2). 7. J. Raz, 'The Rule of Law and Its Virtue’, in J. Raz, The Authority of Law. Essays on Law and Morality (Oxford, Clarendon 1983) pp. 210–229.
6. For example, F.H. Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty: A New Statement of the Liberal Principles of Justice and Political Economy (Chicago, Chicago University Press 1973); M. Zamboni, '“Rechtsstaat”; Just What is Being Exported by Swedish Development Assistance Organisations?’, Law, Social Justice & Global Development (LGD) (2001 (2)), .
7. For example, M. Scheltema, 'De rechtsstaat’, In J.W.M. Engels, et.al., eds.,De rechtsstaat herdacht[The rule of law commemorated] (Zwolle, Tjeenk Willink 1989) pp. 11 - 25; Wetenschap-pelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid[Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy], De toekomst van de nationale rechtsstaat[The future of national systems of rule of law] (The Hague, Sdu Uitgevers 2002).
8. See Hertogh who proposes an alternative approach to this. M. Hertogh, De levende rechts- staat, een ander perspectief op recht en openbaar bestuur[The living rule of law, a different perspective on law and public administration] (Utrecht, Uitgeverij Lemma 2002).
9. Art. 12 Wet Algemene Bepalingen[Statute on general regulations]: A judge is not allowed to make general rules in the cases under his jurisdiction. (Translation by the author of: 'Een rech-ter mag niet door middel van “ algemene verordening, dispositie of reglement ”, uitspraak doen in zaken welke aan zijn beslissing onderworpen zijn.’)
10. One of the other arguments used to defend the position of judicial agreements was the view that judicial agreements were not essentially different from governmental policy guidelines, which the present author also rejected. 13. J. B J.M. ten Berge, B.W.N. de Waard and R.J.G.M. Widdershoven, Ervaringen met de Awb, het bestuursprocesrecht[Experiences with the General Administrative Act, administrative procedural law] (Zwolle, W.E.J. Tjeenk Willink 1996) pp. 358 et seq.
11. See, for example, M. Scheltema, 'Van rechtsbescherming naar een volwaardig bestuursrecht’ [From access to justice to full-grown administrative law], 71 NJB (1996) pp. 1355–1361. 15. R.W. Westling, 'Advisory opinions and the “Constitutionally required” adequate and independent state grounds doctrine’, 63 Tul. L Rev. (1988) p. 379.
12. Quoted by Westling, Human Rights in the World n. 15, at p. 379.
13. D.A. Dripps, 'Bowers v. Hardwick and the law of standing: Noncases make bad law’, 44 Emory LJ (1995) p. 1417; Westling, Human Rights in the World n. 15, at p. 379. 18. This rule is based on §101 Abs. 1 Satz 2 of the Grundgesetz.
14. The free market ideals, which are expressed in Hayek's concept of rule of law and which continue to echo in uses of the concept by the World bank and other development assistance organisations, almost completely contradict the social welfare ideas of Burkens, See Hayek Human Rights in the World n. 8 and M.C. Burkens, Beginselen van de democratische rechtsstaat[The Principles of democracy and rule of law] (Deventer, W.E.J. Tjeenk Willink 1997).
15. Hertogh, Human Rights in the World n. 10. 21. Mainstream scholarship only refers to four different functions of rule of law as discourse: the symbolic, the signal, the norm-referential, and the educational function.Wetenschappehjke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid, Human Rights in the World n. 9.
16. Wetenschappehjke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid, Human Rights in the World n. 9. 23. They are probably best understood as ideological expressions which serve the top-down legitimacy of governmental power by disguising it as being in the interest of all citizens, rather than the interest of those who are primarily served by the government. The use of this phrase in the discourse on rule of law therefore deserves ample research, see section 5.
17. Any Dutch citizen needs only to read one of those statements considering his or her tax assessment, or a building permit.
18. H.C.M. de Bakker, De cynische verkleuring van legitimiteit en acceptatie, Een rechtsso-ciologische studie naar de regulering van seizoensarbeid in de aspergeteelt van Zuidoost-Neder-land[The cynical colouring of legitimacy and acceptance, A socio-legal study of the regulation of seasonal work in the growing of asparagus in the South-east of The Netherlands] (Amsterdam, Aksant 2001).
19. De Bakker, Human Rights in the World n. 26; D. Lucke, Akzeptanz. Legitimiteit in der 'Abstimmungsgesellschaft’ (Opladen, Leske & Budrich 1995). 28. Which is the definition that can be found in the very accessible introduction to sociology: T. Bilton, et al., Introductory Sociology, 3rd edn. (Houndmills, MacMillan Press Ltd. 1996).
20. Bilton, Human Rights in the World n. 28. 30. A J. Wolthuis, 'Een ontoereikend antwoord op de juridiseringscontroverse, Conflicterende verbeeldingen van de verhouding tussen recht en politick’ [An unsatisfactory answer to the access to justice controversy in administrative law, Conflicting visions on the relationship between law and politics], 75 NJB (2000) p. 2122.
21. Hertogh, Human Rights in the World n. 10.
22. P. Bourdieu, 'The Force of Law: Toward a Sociology of the Juridical Field, Translator's introduction by Richard Terdiman’, 338 Hastings LI (1987) pp. 805–853. 33. Bodansky, Human Rights in the World n. 25, at pp. 596–624.
23. Bourdieu, Human Rights in the World n. 32, at pp. 805–853.
24. Read, for example, D. Kennedy, 'Form and Substance in Private Law Adjudication’, 89 Harv. L Rev. (1976) pp. 1685–1778.