Anglo-American Conception of the Rule of Law

Nadia E. Nedzel is Reilly Family Professor of Law, Southern University Law Center, Baton Rouge, USA. Nicholas Capaldi is Legendre-Soule Distinguished Chair in Business Ethics, Loyola University New Orleans, USA.

• 1. Why the ‘Rule of Law’.- 2. Spontaneous Order.- 3. The British Intellectual Inheritance.- 4. The English Legal Inheritance.- 5. A.V. Dicey.- 6. The Vanishing of the ‘Rule of Law’.- 7. Rediscovery of the ‘Rule of Law’ in Hayek.- 8. Oakeshott.

“Nedzel and Capaldi offer a powerful declaration of what freedom means in the context of the many competing ideas that surround us today. This work is a welcome entrant into the debate over our current and future prospects.” (Timothy Fuller, The New Criterion's Critic's Notebook, April, 2020)