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43 Ga. L. Rev. 1 (2008-2009)
The Concept and the Rule of Law

handle is hein.journals/geolr43 and id is 7 raw text is: GEORGIA LAW REVIEW
VOLUME 43     FALL 2008     NUMBER 1

ESSAY
THE CONCEPT AND TLE RULE OF LAW
Jeremy Waldron*
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I.   INTRODUCTION   ................................... 3

II. WHAT IS THE RULE OF LAW? ................
III. THE RULE OF LAW AND THE CONCEPT OF LAW ..
IV. AGAINST CASUAL POSITIVISM ...............

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* University Professor, New York University Law School. An earlier version of this
Essay was presented as the 103rd Sibley Lecture at the University of Georgia School of Law
in 2007. I am grateful to members of the audience for their questions and comments, to the
editors of the Georgia Law Review, and also to Mitch Berman, Tom Campbell, Jules Coleman,
Julie Dixon, Ronald Dworkin, Imer Flores, Leslie Green, Brian Leiter, Andrei Marmor, Liam
Murphy, Thomas Nagel, Joseph Raz, Miriam Rodgers, Enrique Villanueva, and Will
Waluchow for their comments on earlier versions.