$37.00
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2011
Summary
‘The most eminent of our judges’ defines one of the key ideas in history and the contemporary world.
‘The Rule of Law’ is a phrase much used but little examined. The idea of the rule of law as the foundation of modern states and civilisations has recently become even more talismanic than that of democracy, but what does it actually consist of?
In this brilliant short book, Britain’s former senior law lord, and one of the world’s most acute legal minds, examines what the idea a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141034539 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014103453X |
| Author: | Tom Bingham |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2011 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 197mm x 128mm |
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About The Author
Tom Bingham
Tom Bingham, ‘the most eminent of our judges’ (Guardian), held office successively as Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and Senior Law Lord of the United Kingdom, the only person ever to hold all three offices. He became a life peer, as Baron Bingham of Cornhill in the County of Powys, on becoming Lord Chief Justice in 1996. In 2005 he was appointed a Knight of the Garter, the first professional judge to be so honoured. He retired in 2008, and in the same year was elected by the Institut de France as the first winner of the Prize for Law awarded by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.
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