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Vertical Dimensions In The Quality Of Law, Bartram Brown
Vertical Dimensions In The Quality Of Law, Bartram Brown
Bartram Brown
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Vertical Dimensions In The Quality Of Law, Bartram Brown
Vertical Dimensions In The Quality Of Law, Bartram Brown
Bartram Brown
There are compelling reasons for concern about the quality of law. Law is essential to structuring the social relations of the state. Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are God-given unalienable rights, and that the purpose of governments is to secure these rights on behalf of the governed. Whether the law of a state will be successful in this task depends upon the quality of that law. And, due to the vast changes in the international legal system so presciently anticipated by Wolfgang Friedmann in the 1960s, concern about the quality of law must, …