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Grounding the Rule of Law
Author(s) -
REYNOLDS NOEL B.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9337.1989.tb00022.x
Subject(s) - rule of law , positivism , law , legal positivism , politics , epistemology , political science , sociology , law and economics , philosophy , philosophy of law , comparative law
. Although the concept of Rule of Law has been revived and developed vigorously by mid‐twentieth century conservative political theorists, contemporary legal positivists have not been impressed. The author reviews this confrontation, outlines the logic for a strong theory of Rule of Law, and surveys the leading attempts to provide compelling grounds for such a theory.