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IA 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? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... ...° 6
III. THE RULE OF LAW AND THE CONCEPT OF LAW .. ........ 10
IV. AGAINST CASUAL POSITIVISM ............... ........ 13
* University Professor, New York University Law School. An earlier version of this
Essay was presented as the 103rd Sibley Lecture at the University of ia School of Law
in 2007. I am grateful to members of the audience for their questions ments, to the
editors of the iaLaw 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 ments on earlier versions.
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V. THE ESSENCE OF A LEGAL SYSTEM ................... 19
A. COURTS ...................................... 20
B. GENERAL PUBLIC NORMS .......................... 24
C. POSIT I TY ................................... 28
D. ORIENTATION TO THE PUBLIC GOOD ................. 31
E. SYSTEMATICITY ................................. 32
VI. A NARROW CONCEPT OF LAW ........................ 36
VII. FROM THE CONCEPT OF LAW TO THE RULE O