This book explores the development of both the civil law conception of the Legal State and the common law conception of the Rule of Law. It examines the philosophical and historical background of both concepts, as well as the problem of the interrelation between the two doctrines. The book brings together twenty-five leading scholars from around the world and provides both general and specific jurisdictional perspectives of the issue in both contemporary and historical settings. The Rule of Law is a legal doctrine the meaning of which can only be fully appreciated in the context of both the common law and the European civil law tradition of the Legal State (Rechtsstaat). The Rule of Law and the Legal State are fundamental safeguards of human dignity and of the legitimacy of the state and the authority of state prescriptions.

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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 Kötter 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 SubstantiveUnderstanding 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.