The impossibility of the rule of law

No community fully achieves the ideal of the rule of law. Puzzles about the content of the ideal seem to make it necessarily unattainable (and, therefore, an incoherent ideal). Legal systems necessarily contain vague laws. They typically allow for change in the law, they typically provide for unrevi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Endicott, T
Format: Journal article
Published: Oxford University Press 1999