num_pages: 208
description: The notion that the rule of law embodies or guarantees all the essential requirements for a perfectly just society is extravagant and nave. Nonetheless the rule of law remains an essential human virtue whose usefulness the world has yet to outgrow. Using the rule of law as a mobilising theme this book recasts Western theories of law good governance and development in a Pacific perspective. While Iutisone Salevao works primarily within a legal analytical framework he employs a multifaceted approach to address the challenge of making Western theories relevant to the concrete and normative contexts of the Pacific peoples and to accommodate Pacific values ideologies structures and practices within the modern discourse on law.
language: English
title: Rule of law, legitimate governance & development in the Pacific
publisher: Asia Pacific Press