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Democracy and the Rule of Law

2013
AbstractThis article examines the role of the rule of law and democracy in international human rights law. It discusses the legal nature and the formal recognition of the rule of law and democracy. It explains that that rule of law and democracy are elements that constitute essential pillars promoting real enjoyment of human rights but they are ...
Tomuschat Christian
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Democracy and the Rule of Law

2003
This book addresses the question of why governments sometimes follow the law and other times choose to evade the law. The traditional answer of jurists has been that laws have an autonomous causal efficacy: law rules when actions follow anterior norms; the relation between laws and actions is one of obedience, obligation, or compliance.
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Democracy and the Rule of Law

2019
President Donald Trump’s cozying up to dictators makes almost daily headlines. He seems comfortable with and anxious to please such strongmen as Vladimir Putin of Russia, Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, and Kim Jong-un of North Korea.
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BREXIT, democracy and the rule of law

European Law Journal, 2020
AbstractThis article employs the image of the antisyzygy, the yoking of opposites, as an analytical tool to understand the dynamic and unresolved tensions built into the very idea of the European Union. It describes the EU as a forming a supranational constitutional space which does not supersede nation states, but instead seeks to preserve their ...
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Perspectives of Democracy and the Rule of Law

Journal of Law and Society, 1991
Germany give every reason to paint a gloomy picture of their development. The rapid weakening of the Kantian empathical-rational foundation of the rule of law in the work of most nineteenth century authors' and the consequent theoretical and practical separation of the rule of law from democracy, already boded ill for these institutions. Until 1919, in
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On the Rule of Law and Democracy: Policy Rules and Principles in Dutch Taxation

SSRN Electronic Journal
The rule of law is a hotly debated topic. Does it include fundamental rights and values like equal citizenship? Is there an inherent connection to democracy? This article addresses these questions in the context of policy rules issued by a tax administration.
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