The Rule of Law in Comparative Perspective

ISBN-13: 9789400732056 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 253 str.

Mortimer Sellers; Tadeusz Tomaszewski

Opis

The papers collected in this volume grow out of a series of discussions on the concept of The Rule of Law held at meetings of the European AmericanConsortiumforLegalEducationinWarsaw(2008), theAmerican SocietyforLegalHistoryinTempe, Arizona(2007), andtheAssociationof AmericanLawSchoolsinSanDiego, California(2009). Thegatheringof theEuropean-AmericanConsortiumforLegalEducationwasparticularly signi?cant, becauseitalsomarkedthetwo-hundredthanniversaryofthe UniversityofWarsawFacultyofLaw. Wewouldliketothankthosewho attendedthesemeetingsfortheirinsightfulremarksandfortheirinspi- tion, suggestionsandencouragementinbetterunderstandingtheruleof lawfromacomparativeperspective. Thanksarealsoduetothefaculty, staffandstudentsoftheUniversityof BaltimoreCenterforInternationalandComparativeLawwhopreparedthis volumeforpublication, andparticularlytoKatieRolfes, LaurieSchnitzer, BarbaraCoyle, KathrynSpanogle, MoradEghbal, JamesMaxeiner, Nicholas Allen, Caroline Andes, Michael Beste, Suzanne Conklin, Pratima Lele, ShandonPhan, T. J. Sachse, ToschaStoner-SilbaughandBjornThorstensen. WearealsogratefultoDavidBederman, MichaelHoe?ich, CarlLandauer, DavidLieberman, JulesLobel, IleanaPorras, andBrianTamanahafortheir commentsofearlierversionsofthechapterspublishedhere. Imperialegumpotentioraquamhominumesto Baltimore, MD, USA MortimerSellers Warsaw, Poland TadeuszTomaszewski vii Contents 1 AnIntroductiontotheRuleofLawinComparativePerspective 1 MortimerSellers 2 TheRuleofLawinAncientGreekThought . . . . . . . . . . . 11 FredD. Miller 3 TheLiberalStateandCriminalLawReforminSpain. . . . . . 19 AnicetoMasferrer 4 Some Realism About Legal Certainty in the GlobalizationoftheRuleofLaw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 JamesR. Maxeiner 5 IsGoal-BasedRegulationConsistentwiththeRuleofLaw?. . 57 S. J. A. terBorgandW. S. R. Stoter 6 Re?ectionsonShakespeareandtheRuleofLaw . . . . . . . . 71 RobertW. Peterson 7 America sConstitutionalRuleofLaw: StructureandSymbol. 89 RobinCharlow 8 ConstitutionsWithoutConstitutionalism: TheFailure ofConstitutionalisminBrazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 AugustoZimmermann 9 RuleofLaw, PowerDistribution, andtheProblemof FactioninCon?ictInterventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 DanielH. Levine ix x Contents 10 TheRuleofLawinTransitionalJustice: TheFujimori TrialinPeru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 LisaJ. Laplante 11 TheInteractionofCustomaryLawwiththeModern RuleofLawinAlbaniaandKosova. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 GencTrnavci 12 Dualism, Domestic Courts, and the Rule ofInternationalLaw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 FionadeLondras Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 Contributors RobinCharlow HofstraUniversitySchoolofLaw, Hempstead, NY, USA, robin. charlow@hofstra. edu FionadeLondras SchoolofLaw, InstituteofCriminology, University CollegeDublin, Dublin, Ireland, ?onadelondras@ucd. ie LisaJ. Laplante MarquetteUniversityLawSchool, Milwaukee, WI, USA; PraxisInstituteforSocialJustice, Medford, MA, USA, lisa. laplante@marquette. edu DanielH. Levine SchoolofPublicPolicy, InstituteforPhilosophyand PublicPolicy, UniversityofMaryland, CollegePark, MD, USA, dhlevine@umd. edu AnicetoMasferrer ComparativeLegalHistory, FacultyofLaw, University ofValencia, Valencia, Spain, aniceto. masferrer@uv. es JamesR. Maxeiner CenterforInternationalandComparativeLaw, UniversityofBaltimoreSchoolofLaw, Baltimore, MD, USA, jmaxeiner@ubalt. edu FredD. MillerJr. SocialPhilosophyandPolicyCenter, BowlingGreen StateUniversity, BowlingGreen, OH, USA, fmiller@bgnet. bgsu. edu RobertW. Peterson SantaClaraUniversitySchoolofLaw, SantaClara, CA, USA, rpeterson@scu. edu MortimerSellers UniversitySystemofMaryland;CenterforInternational andComparativeLaw, UniversityofBaltimoreSchoolofLaw, Baltimore, MD, USA, msellers@ubalt. edu W. S. R. Stoter FacultyofTechnology, PolicyandManagement, Policy, Organisation, LawandGamingResearchGroup, DelftUniversityof xi xii Contributors Technology, Delft, TheNetherlands;SchoolofLaw sConstitutionaland AdministrativeLawResearchGroup, ErasmusUniversityRotterdam, Rotterdam, TheNetherlands, stoter@frg. eur. nl S. J. A. terBorg Policy, Organisation, LawandGamingResearchGroup, FacultyofTechnology, PolicyandManagement, DelftUniversityof Technology, Delft, TheNetherlands, s. j. a. terborg@tudelft. nl TadeuszTomaszewski FacultyofLaw, UniversityofWarsaw, Warsaw, Poland, tadtom@wpia. uw. edu. pl GencTrnavci UniversityofBihac, Bihac, BosniaandHerzegovina, trnavci_hrcpc@yahoo. com AugustoZimmermann MurdochUnive

Spis treści

An Introduction to the Rule of Law in Comparative Perspective.- The Rule of Law in Ancient Greek Thought.- The Liberal State and Criminal Law Reform in Spain.- Some Realism About Legal Certainty in the Globalization of the Rule of Law.- Is Goal-Based Regulation Consistent with the Rule of Law?.- Reflections on Shakespeare and the Rule of Law.- America's Constitutional Rule of Law: Structure and Symbol.- Constitutions Without Constitutionalism: The Failure of Constitutionalism in Brazil.- Rule of Law, Power Distribution, and the Problem of Faction in Conflict Interventions.- The Rule of Law in Transitional Justice: The Fujimori Trial in Peru.- The Interaction of Customary Law with the Modern Rule of Law in Albania and Kosova.- Dualism, Domestic Courts, and the Rule of International Law.

Blurb

This new volume on The Rule of Law in Comparative Perspective compares the different conceptions of the rule of law that have developed in different legal cultures. Lawyers and legal scholars from various legal systems describe the social purposes and practical applications of the rule of law, and how it might be improved in the varied circumstances of their own courts and politics.

This book will be of interest to lawyers, judges, public officials, and to all those wishing to improve the fundamental structures of their own legal systems, by bringing equal justice to every person subject to the power of the state.