Coming Soon Tempering Power: Beyond the Rule of Law

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Tempering Power: Beyond the Rule of Law

By Martin Krygier
Coming Soon Cambridge University Press Available August 2026

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ISBN-13
9781009775304
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
August 2026
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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What is the rule of law for? What does that take? Why does it matter? There is little clarity and less agreement about any of these questions. That is partly because they are hard, but it is also because we generally do not think especially well about them. Yet they are rarely more important than today, and there are better ways to think. In this seminal book, Martin Krygier combines an account of conventional assumptions, a fundamental critique of them, and an alternative way of thinking about the purpose, the value, and the significance of the rule of law, in light of the goal it should serve: tempering power. In this time of widespread intemperate abuse of power throughout the world, these concerns are not merely analytical, academic, or even legal. They are social, political, and moral, and everyone's business. And the stakes are high.

Table of Contents

PART I. INTRODUCTION:
1. What and Why
2. Trajectories

PART II. APPROACHES:
3. False Starts
4. Ends and Means

PART III. STAKES:
5. Mischief
6. Remedy

PART IV. IMPLICATIONS & COMPLICATIONS
7. Power
8. Law
9. '&' or 'In'? 10. Contexts & Connections
11. Conclusions
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