The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law

Part I. Introduction: Thinking About the Rule of Law Jens Meierhenrich and Martin Loughlin
Part II. Histories:
1. Classical Athens' radical democratic 'rule of law' Adriaan Lanni
2. Rechtsstaat versus the rule of law Jens Meierhenrich
3. État de droit: the gallicization of the rechtsstaat Luc Heuschling
4. Islamic conceptions of the rule of law Lawrence Rosen
5. Empires and the rule of law Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford
Part III. Moralities:
6. The rule of law as an essentially contested concept Jeremy Waldron
7. The rule of law in Montesquieu Sharon R. Krause
8. The spirit of legality: A. V. Dicey and the rule of law Mark D. Walters
9. Michael Oakeshott's republican theory of the rule of law Martin Loughlin
10. The morality of the rule of law: Lon Fuller Kristen Rundle
11. E. P. Thompson and the rule of law: qualifying the 'unqualified good' Douglas Hay
12. Functions of the rule of law Brian Z. Tamanaha
13. Modeling the rule of law Barry R. Weingast, Gillian K. Hadfield and Jens Meierhenrich
Part IV. Pathologies:
14. Thomas Hobbes and the rule-by-law tradition David Dyzenhaus
15. Conservative critiques of the rule of law Peter C. Caldwell
16. Judith Shklar's critique of legalism Seyla Benhabib and Paul Linden-Retek
17. The Frankfurt school and the rule of law William E. Scheuerman
18. Critical legal studies and the rule of law Mark Tushnet
19. Feminist critiques of the rule of law Vanessa E. Munro
20. Critical race theory and the rule of law Khiara M. Bridges
Part V. Trajectories:
21. Economic development and the rule of law Shane Chalmers and Sundhya Pahuja
22. Democracy and the rule of law Martin Krygier
23. Constitutionalism and the rule of law Roberto Gargarella
24. Punishment in the rule of law Lindsay Farmer
25. Populism and the rule of law Nicola Lacey
26. An 'international rule-of-law movement'? Stephen Humphreys
27. Measuring the rule of law Tom Ginsburg and Mila Versteeg
28. Post-conflict rule of law Jane E. Stromseth
29. A global rule of law Anne Orford
Part VI. Conclusion:
30. What the rule of law is… and is not Jens Meierhenrich.

Martin Loughlin is Professor of Public Law at the London School of Economics & Political Science. He was educated at LSE, the University of Warwick, and Harvard Law School, and held chairs at the Universities of Glasgow and Manchester before returning to the LSE in 2000. Between 2000 and 2002, he held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship; in 2007-08 he was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; in 20012-13 held a Law & Public Affairs Fellowship at Princeton University; and in 2016-17 is EURIAS Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. Martin has been a visiting professor at many law schools including Osgoode Hall, Paris II, Pennsylvania, Renmin University (Beijing), and Toronto.

Jens Meierhenrich is Associate Professor of International Relations at London School of Economics.

Oliver Simons is Department Chair and Professor of Germanic Languages at Columbia University.