The legal doctrines of the rule of law and the legal state

Table of contents

Special Thank You.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction; James R. Silkenat, James E. Hickey, Jr. and Peter Barenboim.- Part One - General Perspectives On Rule Of Law And The Legal State.- Chapter 1. What is the Rule of Law and why is it so important; Mortimer Sellers.- Chapter 2. On the Foundations of the Rule of Law and the Principle of the Legal State/Rechtsstaat; Dietmar von der Pfordten.- Chapter 3. Philosophical Foundations of the Principle of the Legal State (Rechtsstaat) and the Rule of Law; Stephan Kirste.- Chapter 4. Rule of Law (and Rechtsstaat); Martin Krygier.- Chapter 5. The Rule of Law and Legal State Doctrines as a Methodology of the Philosophy of Law; Demitriy Dedov.- Chapter 6. Applying the Rule of Law to Contexts Beyond the State; Matthias Koetter and Gunnar Folke Schuppert.- Chapter 7. The Rule of Law as a Global Norm for Constitutionalism; Francois Venter.- Chapter 8. The Ill-fated Union: Constitutional Entrenchment of Rights and the Will Theory from Rousseau to Waldron; Aniceto Masferrer and Anna Taitslin.- Chapter 9. The Measure of Law: The Non-instrumental Legal Side from the State to the Global Setting (and from Hamdan to Al Jedda); Gianluigi Palombella.- Chapter 10. Rule of Law, Legal State and Other International Legal Doctrines: Linguistic Aspects of their Convergence and Differentiation; Yuri A. Sharandin and Dmitry V. Kravchenko.- Part Two - Specific Perspectives on the Rule of Law and the Legal State.- Chapter 11. Freedom, Equality, Legality; T R S Allan.- Chapter 12. The Rechtsstaat-Principle in Germany: The Development from the Beginning Until Now; Paul Tiedemann.- Chapter 13. The German Rechtsstaat in a Comparative Perspective; Rainer Grote.- Chapter 14. The Russian Judicial Doctrine of the Rule of Law: Twenty Years After; Gadis Gadzhiyev.- Chapter 15. The Law is a Causeway: Metaphor and the Rule of Law in Russia; Jeffrey Kahn.- Chapter 16. American Constitutional Analysis and a Substantive Understanding of the Rule of Law; Robin Charlow.- Chapter 17. Building a Government of Laws: Adams and Jefferson 1776-1779; James Maxeiner.- Chapter 18. Rule of Law v. Legal State: Where Have We Come from, Where are We Going To?; Nadia E. Nedzel.- Chapter 19. The Rule of Law in the Middle East; Hossein Esmaeili.- Chapter20. Waiting for the Rule of Law in Brazil: A Meta-Legal Analysis of the Insufficient Realization of the Rule of Law in Brazil; Augusto Zimmerman.-Chapter 21. The Rule of Law and the United Nations; Edric Selous.- Giovanni Bassu.- Editors.- Contributors.