On The Rule of Law
Subtitle: History, Politics, Theory
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 13, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780521843621
Subjects: Foundations of law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Law; Jurisprudence; Law / Jurisprudence; History; Rule of law
First sentence: Just over a decade ago, following the almost total collapse of communism, it seemed to many observers to be the dawn of a new age, an age in which Western ideas of freedom, democracy, individual rights, and capitalism finally would come to dominate, spreading their beneficent effects to the many blighted parts of the globe that had previously rejected them in the name of Marxism, or traditional values, or anti-Westernism, or some other self-defeating ideal.