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Defending the Rule of Law

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Martin Krygier's scholarship has inspired a broad swathe of work on the rule of law. In two recent books, I sought to understand the successes and failures of efforts to defend the rule of law in the US “war on terror.” This essay summarizes the lessons I learned.

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Notes

  1. Krygier (2013).

  2. Krygier (2011, 2012a, b, 2014).

  3. Selznick (1959).

  4. “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.” Marx, Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach.

  5. Abel (2018a, 2018b).

  6. Abel (1995).

  7. Sherrill (1970).

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Abel, R.L. Defending the Rule of Law. Hague J Rule Law 11, 389–395 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40803-019-00099-x

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