Its meaning varied depending on who was employing it and for what purpose. 2 In one guise or another the rule of law embraced: (1) the right to justice by the judgment of one's peers conceded by King John in Ma
The only way to succeed in the Nazi hierarchy was to please Hitler and to try to achieve his personal aims. ("working towards the Fuhrer"; how exactly was the Fuhrerstaat organized?? Was Hitler a weak / strong dictator? Intentionalist / functionalist interpretation? Was the Nazi state a...
The International Seabed Authority (ISA), established in 1982 under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)—which the U.S. has not ratified—has spent years developing regulations for deep-sea mining. In 2021, the island nation of Nauru sponsored Canada’s The Metals Company (TMC...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's most senior judge made a rare public plea on Monday for the rule of law to be protected amid often violent anti-China protests rocking the financial center since mid-2019. Hong Kong's judiciary, which underpins the former British colony's semi-autonomous ...
In order to find out whether the law of a given country has any say in Rule-of-Law achievement—or failure—it is first necessary to establish on a theoretical level what Rule-of-Law means. Indeed, only a critical legal approach (i.e., not merely...
they destroyed an Egyptian army of 10,000 men under the command of a British colonel. After Shaykān, the Sudan was lost, and not even the leadership of Gordon, who was hastily sent to Khartoum, could save the Sudan for Egypt. On January 26, 1885, the Mahdists captured Khartoum and ma...
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A school using such a system would be right to expect that it would prevent any staff member being timetabled to be in more than one location at one time, which would violate a law of physics. Another law of physics that has the potential to affect most systems is the fact that (for...
This article compares the civilian legal state to common law rule of law with regard to economic development and individual liberty. It focuses on the differences in both concept and culture in an effort to tease out what it is about ‘Englishness’ that
The rise of digital technologies has led to the emergence of digital private and public powers, which pose significant societal risks, challenge human rights, and reshape the rule of law. Digital power, as a new form of power, possesses inherent legal ch