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The Rule of Law: A Very Short Introduction
by Aziz Z. Huq
《法治初识》阿齐兹·胡克
——这本小书的初衷是帮助读者了解，在这个动荡的时刻，法治对他们来说是否重要、如何重要以及为什么重要。
阿齐兹·胡克（Aziz Z. Huq）为芝加哥大学法学教授
政治家、法官和公民通常使用 “法治 ”一词来描述法律制度带来的某种好处。但这种好处究竟是什么呢？即使在亚里士多德的时代，人们对它的性质以及它是否属于无条件的善也没有达成一致意见。即使是现在，法治的一个核心诉求也是法律可以约束权力的行使方式。但如何制约或何时制约？关于法治是如何使用法律还是为何使用法律的问题，仍然存在分歧。
阿齐兹·胡克（Aziz Z. Huq）通过描绘这些分歧，并展示对这一概念的不同理解之间的重叠和冲突，说明了法治如何仍可作为一种重要工具，用于构建和评估法律体系的目标和功能。他追溯了这一理念的历史渊源，从古希腊到宪法理论家阿尔伯特·文·迪西，再到经济学家和政治哲学家弗里德里希·哈耶克。
他还探讨了恐怖主义威胁、宏观经济危机、流行病、专制民粹主义和气候变化如何对这一价值观造成压力。
Politicians, judges, and citizens commonly use the phrase and “rule of law and ” to describe some good that flows from a legal system. But what precisely is that good? Even in Aristotle’s time, there was no agreement on either its nature, and on whether it counted as an unqualified good. Even now, a core rule-of-law aspiration is that law can constrain how power is flexed. But how or when? Disagreement persists as to whether the rule of law is a matter of how law is used or why it is deployed. In consequence, the World Bank, the leaders of Singapore’s one-party state, and the Communist Party in China can all offer their own spins on the concept.By charting these disagreements and showing the overlap and the conflicts between different understandings of the concept, Aziz Z. Huq shows how the rule of law can still be used as an important tool for framing and evaluating the goals and functions of a legal system. He traces the idea’s historical origins from ancient Greece to the constitutional theorist Albert Venn Dicey to the economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek. And he explores how that value is coming under pressure from terrorist threats, macroeconomic crisis, pandemics, autocratic populism, and climate change.
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