The Rule of Law: Politicizing Ethics: Politicizing Ethics

by Michael Neumann

This title was first published in 2002. The rule of law neither celebrates human rights nor simply ratifies whatever happens to be on the statute books. At its core it simply guarantees that laws, however immoral or unjust, penalise people only for what they do, and never for what they are. Yet even when its moral accretions are stripped away, the rule of law offers protections that morality itself has trouble maintaining. This book draws on contemporary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138739413
• ISBN13: 9781138739413
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge