The Rule of Lore in the Rule of Law

By Dr Paul Burgess, Senior Teaching Fellow in Public Law & Human Rights Law at UCL Laws

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14 July 2020

Publication details

Burgess, Paul (2020) ‘The Rule of Lore in the Rule of Law: Putting the Problem of the Rule of Law in Context’, Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 12, p. 333–361. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40803-019-00096-0

Publication summary

In this article, Dr Burgess identifies a number of commonly accepted assumptions from the literature associated with the Rule of Law and suggests that—whilst the assumptions are accepted as part of the conceptual narrative of the concept—the cogency of the assumptions falters when they are considered collectively.

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