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8 Hague J. on Rule L. 1 (2016)

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Hague J Rule Law (2016) 8:1- 23
DOI 10.1007/s40803-016-0024-z
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The   Rule of Law at Home and Abroad


Gianluigi  Palombellal








Published online: 18 April 2016
© T.M.C. Asser Press 2016


Abstract The article addresses the meaning of the Rule of Law and its import
between  domestic  and supra-State legalities, starting from problems raised by real
cases, and the insufficiency of some received ideas or more common   notions- from
those requisites-based to formal, material, or procedural ones- to cope with them.
Accordingly  it focuses upon a dual structure of legality as an institutional condition
for the Rule of Law to pursue its normative ideal. The duality condition for the Rule
of law is historically and theoretically reconstructed in its origin and development, and
the notion is carefully distinguished from rule compliance, procedural fairness, sub-
stantive justice, the principle of legality, and other different achievements of the
present legal civilization. Its essential content shapes a separate, distinct identity vis d
vis democracy  and human rights, while it appears conducive to the appraisal of several
problems  related to the Rule of law oversight in diverse current circumstances.

Keywords     Rule  of law  Dual  legality - Domestic and international law
Procedure  - Human  rights  Democracy

1  Introduction

Controversies  surrounding the meaning,   import and  function of the 'rule of law'
have generated  abundant literature.1 In what follows, I shall avoid starting with the
essentially contested definitions (although I will return to this point later): instead of

  One of the best overviews which is still valid today was written by Craig (1997, pp. 467-487).
Fundamental insights have been proposed in several works by Martin Krygier (2009, pp. 45-69 and
2011). I have myself elaborated at length on this issue. Among my own publications, see Palombella
(2009 and 2010).

®   Gianluigi Palombella
    g.palombella@sssup.it

    University of Parma and Scuola Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy


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