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Rule of law

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• Administrative law
• Constitutional law

• Rule of law -- China
• Rule of law -- Europe
• Rule of law -- European Economic Community countries
• Rule of law -- European Union countries
• Rule of law -- Jordan
• Rule of law -- South Africa
• Rule of law -- United States
• Rule of law -- Venezuela
• Administrative discretion
• Judicial review
• Political questions and judicial power

• Supremacy of law

• Legal Conundrums in Our Brave New World (Hamlyn Lectures, #54; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2004), by Helena Kennedy (PDF in the UK)
• Civil Democracy Protection: Success Conditions of Non-Governmental Organisations in Comparison (London and New York: Routledge, c2024), ed. by Uwe Backes and Thomas Lindenberger
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Taylor and Francis
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• Fight Against Terrorism and Extremism in Xinjiang: Truth and Facts (published in English by the UN OHCHR, redacted, as an appendix to its Assessment of the Human Rights Situtation; 2022), by Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) (PDF at ohchr.org)

• The Sovereignty of Law: The European Way (Hamlyn Lectures, #58; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2007), by Francis Geoffrey Jacobs (PDF in the UK)

• The European Communities and the Rule of Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #29; London: Stevens and Sons, 1977), by Alexander John Mackenzie-Stuart (PDF in the UK)

• The Sovereignty of Law: The European Way (Hamlyn Lectures, #58; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2007), by Francis Geoffrey Jacobs (PDF in the UK)

• Suspicious Sweeps: The General Intelligence Department and Jordan's Rule of Law Problem (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2006), by Christoph Wilcke (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• The Contribution of English Law to South African Law; and the Rule of Law in South Africa (Hamlyn Lectures, #19; London: Stevens and Sons; South Africa: Juta and Co., 1967), by O. D. Schreiner (PDF in the UK)

• The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation (Oxford et al.: Hart Publishing, c2021), by Paul Gowder
  • HTML at Bloomsbury Collections
  • PDF at oapen.org

• Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Scott Douglas Gerber (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 (with a new introduction; New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Robert J. Kaczorowski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 (with a new introduction; New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Robert J. Kaczorowski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Presidential Accountability in Wartime: President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Stuart Streichler (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Court vs. Congress: Prayer, Busing, and Abortion (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), by Edward Keynes and Randall K. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Supreme Court on Trial (New York: Atherton Press, 1964), by Charles S. Hyneman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Administering Justice: Placing the Chief Justice in American State Politics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Richard L. Vining and Teena Wilhelm (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• A Decade Under Chávez: Political Intolerance and Lost Opportunities for Advancing Human Rights in Venezuela (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2008), by Alisha Holland, Sebastian Brett, Tamara Taraciuk, and Daniel Wilkinson (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Executive Discretion and Judicial Control: An Aspect of the French Conseil d'Etat (Hamlyn Lectures, #6; London: Stevens and Sons, 1954), by C. J. Hamson (PDF in the UK)

• Stephen Branchflower Report to the Legislative Council, October 10, 2008: Public Report (public volume of the "Alaska Troopergate" report; 2008), by Stephen Branchflower (PDF at Alaska State Legislature)

• Protection of the Public: A New Challenge (Hamlyn Lectures, #41; London: Stevens and Sons, 1990), by Harry Woolf (PDF in the UK)

• Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees (c2011), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Judicial Activism: Authority, Principle and Policy in the Judicial Method (Hamlyn Lectures, #55; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2004), by M. D. Kirby (PDF in the UK)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• System der Subjektiven Öffentlichen Rechte (in German; Freiburg: J. C. B. Mohr, 1892), by Georg Jellinek (page images at HathiTrust)

• Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China, 1723-1820 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Beatrice S. Bartlett (multiple formats at Google)

• Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China, 1723-1820 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Beatrice S. Bartlett (multiple formats at Google)

• Executive Discretion and Judicial Control: An Aspect of the French Conseil d'Etat (Hamlyn Lectures, #6; London: Stevens and Sons, 1954), by C. J. Hamson (PDF in the UK)

• Der Fehlerhafte Staatsakt und Seine Wirkungen: Eine Verwaltungs- und Prozessrechtliche Studie (in German; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1908), by Walter Jellinek
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Supreme Labor Court in Nazi Germany: A Jurisprudential Analysis (Frankfurt am Main : V. Klostermann, 1987), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• The German Civil Service Act (Chicago: Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada, 1938), by James K. Pollock and Alfred V. Boerner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Justice in the Welfare State (Hamlyn Lectures, #20, second edition; London: Stevens and Sons, 1975), by Harry Street (PDF in the UK)
• Justice in the Welfare State (Hamlyn Lectures, #20; London: Stevens and Sons, 1968), by Harry Street (PDF in the UK)

• Kautilya's Arthasastra (Bangalore: Printed at the Government Press, 1915), by Kautalya, trans. by R. Shama Sastri, contrib. by John Faithful Fleet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Feudal Monarchy in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1100 to 1291 (Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1932), by John L. La Monte (page images at HathiTrust)

• Elementos de Derecho Administrativo (in Spanish; 1895), by Manuel Cruzado (page images at HathiTrust)

• Difficulties of a Mexican Revenue Officer in Texas (reprinted from Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association: 1901), by Eugene C. Barker
  • page images at Portal to Texas History
  • as appeared in the Quarterly; page images at JSTOR

• Administrative Adjudication in the State of New York: Report to Honorable Herbert H. Lehman, Governor of the State of New York (1942), by Robert M. Benjamin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Administrative Adjudication in the State of New York: Report to Honorable Herbert H. Lehman, Governor of the State of New York (1942), by Robert M. Benjamin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Code of Federal Regulations (annual edition), by United States (partial serial archives)
• The Federal Register, by United States (full serial archives)

• Ustrój Panstwowych Wladz Administracyjnych na Ziemiach Polski; Z Dodatkiem, Zawierajacym Postepowanie Administracyjne (in Polish; Krakow: L. Frommer, 1921), by Kazimierz Wladyslaw Kumaniecki (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Ustrój Panstwowych Wladz Administracyjnych na Ziemiach Polski; Z Dodatkiem, Zawierajacym Postepowanie Administracyjne (in Polish; Krakow: L. Frommer, 1921), by Kazimierz Wladyslaw Kumaniecki (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Manuel de Droit Public et Administratif de l'Empire Ottoman (2 volumes in French; Vienne-Leipzig: C.W. Stern, 1908-1912), by A. Heidborn
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: page images at Gallica

• Twilight of the American State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Pierre Schlag (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Administrative Agencies and the Courts (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Law School, 1951), by Frank E. Cooper, contrib. by E. Blythe Stason
  • PDF with commentary at Michigan
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Administrative Law: Its Growth, Procedure and Significance (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1942), by Roscoe Pound (page images at Pitt)
• Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (current, unofficial online edition of the CFR), by United States (HTML with commentary at ecfr.gov)

• Regulatory Reform, Volume III, Interstate Commerce Commission: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session (Washington: GPO, 1976), by United States House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• International Terrorism, 1985: Hearings and Markup Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittees on Arms Control, International Security, and Science, and on International Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 2822, March 5, 21, and June 25, 1985 (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007), ed. by Alexander Mayer-Rieckh and Pablo De Greiff (PDF with commentary at ssrc.org)

• Freedom of Religion Under Bills of Rights (c2012), ed. by Paul Babie and Neville Rochow (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• The Theory of the State (authorised English translation from the sixth German edition), by Johann Caspar Bluntschli, trans. by David G. Ritchie, P. E. Matheson, and Richard Lodge (PDF at McMaster)
• Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law (2 volumes; Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1891), by John William Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in History and Jurisprudence (2 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1901), by James Bryce
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Studies in History and Jurisprudence (New York and London: Oxford University Press, American branch, c1901), by James Bryce (page images at HathiTrust)
• System der Subjektiven Öffentlichen Rechte (in German; Freiburg: J. C. B. Mohr, 1892), by Georg Jellinek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verfassungsänderung und Verfassungswandlung: Eine Staatsrechtlich-politische Abhandlung (in German; Berlin: O. Haring, 1906), by Georg Jellinek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy, by Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan (HTML at econlib.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.