Preface: Richard E. D. Schwartz

Sociolegal Evolution: An Introduction
Richard E. D. Schwartz

Section One: The Rule of Law: What Is It?

Democracy and Equality
Robert Post

Reflecting on the Rule of Law:
Its Reciprocal Relation with Rights, Legitimacy, and Other Concepts and Institutions
Samuel J. M. Donnelly

Can the Welfare States Survive in a Globalized Legal Order?
Samuel Krislov

Section Two: Case Studies

A. Moves toward Democracy

Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation?
James L. Gibson

The Federal Constitutional Court: Guardian of German Democracy
Donald P. Kommers

Religion, Constitutional Courts, and Democracy in Former Communist Countries
James T. Richardson

B. Transitions and Problem Cases

Transitions to Constitutional Democracies: The German Democratic Republic
Inga Markovits

Sudan: A Nation in Turbulent Search of Itself
Francis M. Deng

Expecting the Unexpected: Cultural Components of Arab Governance
Lawrence Rosen

Rule of Law and Lawyers in Latin America
Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo

Law and Development of Constitutional Democracy: Is China as Problem Case?
Randall Peerenboom

Section Three: International Processes

Toward a Rule of Law: Freedom of Expression
Kurt Wimmer

Divided Nations: The Paradox of National Protection
Francis M. Deng

Views on the Ground: The Local Perceptions of International Criminal Tribunals in the Former Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone
Donna E. Arzt

Global Rule of Law or Global Rule of Law Enforcement?
International Police Cooperation and Counterterrorism
Mathieu Deflem

Environmental Protection, Free Trade, and Democracy
David M. Driesen

Global Business, Oversight without Inhibiting Enterprise
John Philip Jones

The “Good Governance” Concept Revisited
Ved P. Nanda

Sociolegal Evolution: An Afterword
Richard E. D. Schwartz

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