1.
Measuring the Rule of Law
Number of pages: 120
Posted: 01 Dec 2011
Working Paper Series
Pontifica Universidad Javeriana Law School and The World Justice Project
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5,919
2.
Constitutionalism: A Skeptical View
NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-87
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 11 Dec 2010
Last Revised: 05 May 2012
Accepted Paper Series
New York University School of Law
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4,264
3.
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius: Five Takes
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 22 Aug 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Tennessee College of Law and Samford University - Cumberland School of Law
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National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius: Five Takes
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 22 Aug 2012
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National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius: Five Takes
Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 807, 2013
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 30 Apr 2013
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496
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3,649
4.
The Rule of Law and the Importance of Procedure
NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-73
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 08 Oct 2010
Last Revised: 04 Nov 2010
Working Paper Series
New York University School of Law
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3,397
5.
Essential Elements of the Rule of Law Concept in the EU
Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 180/2014
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 21 Aug 2014
Last Revised: 31 Mar 2020
Working Paper Series
Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
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3,038
6.
What is Originalism? The Evolution of Contemporary Originalist Theory
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 02 May 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Virginia School of Law
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2,891
7.
The Special Court of the Clergy (Dādgāh-Ye Vizheh-Ye Ruhāniyat) and the Repression of Dissident Clergy in Iran
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 24 May 2010
Last Revised: 14 Dec 2011
Working Paper Series
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
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2,730
8.
How Democracy Dies (in Poland): A Case Study of Anti-Constitutional Populist Backsliding
Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 18/01
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 18 Jan 2018
Working Paper Series
The University of Sydney Law School
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2,486
9.
Drone Federalism: Civilian Drones and the Things They Carry
4 California Law Review Circuit 57 (2013)
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 28 Apr 2013
Last Revised: 29 Mar 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Colorado Law School
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2,130
10.
Comparative Analysis of Rule of Law in UK & India
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 10 Jan 2010
Last Revised: 18 Feb 2010
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN
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2,126
11.
What is the Rule of Law and Why is It so Important?
Silkenat, Barenboim and Hickey, eds., "The Legal Doctrines of the Rule of Law and the Legal State" (Springer, 2014 Forthcoming), University of Baltimore School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-15
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 04 Jun 2014
Last Revised: 28 May 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Baltimore - School of Law
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2,065
12.
Unpacking the Principle of Openness in EU Law: Transparency, Participation and Democracy
European Law Review (2014, Forthcoming), HEC Paris Research Paper No. LAW-2013-1003
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 30 Jul 2013
Last Revised: 29 Oct 2013
Accepted Paper Series
HEC Paris
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1,951
13.
The Bound Executive: Emergency Powers During the Pandemic
Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2020-52, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 747
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 26 May 2020
Last Revised: 28 Jul 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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1,820
14.
Political Authority and Political Obligation
OXFORD STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, Vol. II, Leslie Green and Brian Leiter, eds., Forthcoming, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-37
Number of pages: 91
Posted: 16 Jul 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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1,665
15.
The Ideological Origins of the Rule of Law
Presented at The Life and Legacy of Douglass North Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of North’s Nobel Prize in Economics, March 2018
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 25 Apr 2018
Working Paper Series
Wheaton College
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1,607
16.
Separation of Powers or Division of Power?
NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-20
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 24 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 09 May 2012
Working Paper Series
New York University School of Law
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1,598
17.
Why Do People Comply with the Law? Legitimacy and the Influence of Legal Institutions
British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 1051-1071, 2012
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 31 Jan 2012
Last Revised: 13 Mar 2013
Accepted Paper Series
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Methodology, University College London - Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, King's College London - Institute for Criminal Policy Research, College of Policing, National Policing Improvement Agency and Yale University - Law School
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1,576
18.
I·CONnect-Clough Center 2019 Global Review of Constitutional Law
The I·CONnect-Clough Center 2019 Global Review of Constitutional Law. ISBN: 978-0-692-15916-3. Published by the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy , U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 727, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 934
Number of pages: 381
Posted: 23 Dec 2020
Accepted Paper Series
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law, Florida State University - College of Law, University of Trieste and University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law
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1,558
19.
Institutions and Culture: The Story of the EU and the Fate of Europe's Integration Project
South-East Europe Review, Vol. 2, pp. 131-142, 2013, University of Prishtina Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 15-3
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 12 Nov 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Prishtina and University of Messina
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1,534
20.
The Rule of Law
Forthcoming in John Tasioulas (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2019), King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2018-21
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 08 Aug 2018
Accepted Paper Series
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law
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1,503
21.
Terrorism and the Proportionality of Internet Surveillance
European Journal of Criminology, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 119-134, 2009
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 31 Aug 2008
Last Revised: 27 Feb 2014
Accepted Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Oxford Martin School - Global Cyber Capacity Centre
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1,492
22.
Globalization and the Future of Constitutional Rights
102 Northwestern University Law Review 1277 (2008), San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-91
Number of pages: 74
Posted: 27 Mar 2007
Last Revised: 02 Sep 2008
Accepted Paper Series
The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law
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1,430
23.
Which Countries Count? Lawrence V. Texas and the Selection of Foreign Persuasive Authority
Number of pages: 93
Posted: 14 Feb 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
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1,384
24.
Lon Fuller and the Moral Value of the Rule of Law
Law and Philosophy, Vol. 24, 2005
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 10 Oct 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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1,347
25.
Bearing Silent Witness: A Grandfather's Secret Attestation to German War Crimes in Occupied France
American Intelligence Journal (AIJ), Vol. 32, No, 1, 2015, Florida Journal of International Law (FJIL), Vol. 25, No. 1, 2013, Journal of Law, Crime, and History (United Kingdom), Vol. 3, No. 2, 2013, Presented at the George Washington University Law School and the George Mason University School of Law, 2014, Presented at International Association for Intelligence Education, "Expanding the Frontiers of Intelligence Education," 2013, Presented at University of Mississippi Center for Intelligence & Security Studies, "Understanding and Improving Intelligence Analysis: Learning from Other Disciplines," 2013
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 04 Aug 2012
Last Revised: 18 Jan 2016
Accepted Paper Series
George Washington University Law School
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1,317
26.
Judicial Activism and the Court of Justice: How Should Academics Respond?
Maastricht Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2012-3
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 17 Jan 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Birmingham
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1,268
27.
Illiberalism Within: Rule of Law Backsliding in the EU
Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies volume 19 December 2017 3-47
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 28 Jul 2017
Last Revised: 22 May 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Middlesex University - School of Law and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
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1,255
28.
'The Rule of Law' Means Literally What it Says: The Rule of the Law': Fuller and Raz on Formal Legality and the Concept of Law
Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, Vol. 32, pp. 90-113, 2007, Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 14/2011
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 28 Sep 2006
Last Revised: 29 Feb 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Victoria University of Wellington - Faculty of Law
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1,251
29.
The Supreme Court of Canada in the Age of Rights: Constitutional Democracy, the Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Under Canada's Constitution
(2001) 80 Can. Bar Rev. 699-748
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 08 Aug 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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1,203
30.
The Rule of Law as a Constitutional Principle of the European Union
Jean Monnet Working Paper Series No. 4/2009
Number of pages: 81
Posted: 20 Sep 2009
Working Paper Series
Middlesex University - School of Law
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1,181
31.
Role of Indian Judiciary in Protection of Rights of the Children
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 01 Dec 2011
Last Revised: 02 Dec 2011
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN
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1,165
32.
Role of Privy Council in Shaping the Indian Legal System
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 17 Oct 2011
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN
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1,155
33.
Comparative Constitutional Law & Religion
THE RESEARCH HANDBOOK IN COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, Tom Ginsburg and Rosalind Dixon, eds., Edward Elgar, 2011
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 02 Dec 2010
Last Revised: 02 Aug 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Toronto
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1,149
34.
Introduction, Copyright's Paradox
Neil W. Netanel, COPYRIGHT'S PARADOX, Oxford University Press, 2008, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 08-06
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 03 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 25 Oct 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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1,102
35.
'Constitutional Governance and Rule of Law'
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 09 Nov 2011
Working Paper Series
Kiit Law School and Kiit Law School
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1,068
36.
Toward a Methodology for Successful Legal Transplants
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 09 Jan 2012
Last Revised: 26 Jul 2012
Working Paper Series
La Trobe University - Faculty of Law and Management
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1,048
37.
Schmitt V. Dicey: Are States of Emergency Inside or Outside the Legal Order?
Cardozo Law Review, Vol 27, p. 2005, 2006
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 22 Aug 2008
Accepted Paper Series
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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1,042
38.
Investment Treaty Arbitration, Procedural Fairness, and the Rule of Law
INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LAW AND COMPARATIVE PUBLIC LAW, Chapter 20, Schill, ed., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 16 Aug 2010
Last Revised: 19 Aug 2010
Working Paper Series
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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1,040
39.
Migration as a New Metaphor in Comparative Constitutional Law
The Migration of Constitutional Ideas, S. Choudhry, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2006
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 11 Nov 2006
Last Revised: 14 Sep 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Center for Global Constitutionalism, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
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1,034
40.
Good Governance, Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law: Imperatives for Sustainable Development in Nigeria
OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 06, No. 06, pp. 129-142, 2013
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 21 Jan 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) - Faculty of Law
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1,029
41.
Path Dependence, Development, and the Dynamics of Institutional Reform
University of Toronto Law Journal, 2009, U Toronto, Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-04
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 05 Jun 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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1,000
42.
The Bite, the Bark and the Howl Article 7 TEU and the Rule of Law Initiatives
The Enforcement of EU Law and Values: Ensuring Member States' Compliance, Edited by András Jakab and Dimitry Kochenov, Oxford University Press, 2016, Forthcoming, Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance Research Paper No. 2016-01, Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2016-02
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 15 Jan 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance
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985
43.
Anarchy, State, and Blockchain Utopia: Rule of Law versus Lex Cryptographia
in General Principles and Digitalisation (Hart Publishing, 2020)
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 22 Nov 2019
Last Revised: 28 Dec 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University's Codex Center
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963
44.
Functions of the Rule of Law
Martin Loughlin and Jens Meierhenrich, eds., The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (CUP, 2018 Forthcoming), Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-01-01
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 08 Feb 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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951
45.
What to Do with Bin Laden and Al Qaeda Terrorists?: A Qualified Defense of Military Commissions and United States Policy on Detainees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 593-634, Spring 2002
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 21 Apr 2006
Accepted Paper Series
American University - Washington College of Law
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901
46.
The Rule of Law in Public Law
Cambridge Companion to Public Law, Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-40
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 17 Aug 2014
Last Revised: 05 Sep 2014
Accepted Paper Series
New York University School of Law
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893
47.
Reinforcing Rule of Law Oversight in the European Union
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. 2014/25
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 04 Mar 2014
Last Revised: 05 Mar 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas CSIC, CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest and New York University School of Law
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883
48.
Machine Learning and the Rule of Law
Law as Data, Santa Fe Institute Press, ed. M. Livermore and D. Rockmore, 2019(16)
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 03 Jan 2019
Last Revised: 20 Apr 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Directeur de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse School of Economics, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, University of Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, France
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869
49.
The Rule of Law: Its Origins and Meanings (A Short Guide for Practitioners)
Encyclopedia of Global Social Science Issues, ME Sharp publishing, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 19 Apr 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Kent, Brussels
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853
50.
Systematizing Thin and Thick Conceptions of the Rule of Law
APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 19 Jul 2010
Last Revised: 09 Aug 2010
Working Paper Series
Aarhus University and Aarhus University
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826
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