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Militant Rule of Law: Legal Imperfection and What To Do About It

By András Sajó
Coming Soon Cambridge University Press Available August 2026

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ISBN-13
9781009599016
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
August 2026
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Prevention of an erosion of the rule of law is of utmost importance for democracy, because once autocratization begins, only one in five democracies manage to avert breakdown. This book offers a means of protecting the rule of law and counteracting its misuse for illiberal purpose. It analyses inherent anomalies that occur in so-called consolidated democracies, and the responses where the rule of law is seriously undermined. Only by identifying legal imperfections and addressing them, can crises of liberal democracies be avoided. András Sajó provides new theoretical and practical perspectives on legal positivism and legal interpretation. Making the rule of law more robust and its restoration successful requires an innovative, more militant approach to the rule of law. This book proves that unorthodox legal solutions can satisfy rule of law expectations. Otherwise, legality becomes a suicide pact for democracy.

This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Table of Contents

1. Responding to the Rule of Law Demise: An Introduction
2. The Rechtsstaat and the Rule of Law: Beyond the Conceptual Debate
3. Imperfections of the Rule of Law
4. Legal Validity of Deficient Law
5. Pathologically Imperfect Legal Systems
6. Preventive Militant Rule of Law
7. Preventive Militant Rule of Law
8. Restoration after Fraudulent Illiberalism
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