Gerald J. Postema (University of North Carolina – Philosophy) has posted An 'Almost Sacred Responsibility': The Rule of Law in Times of Peril (Judicature, vol. 107, no.3, 2024) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
“An ‘Almost Sacred Responsibility’: The Rule of Law in Times of Peril.” Published in Judicature (107 no. 3—2024) Judicature – Vol. 107 No. 3 (2024). The material in this short article was first presented in a lecture for the Bolch Judicial Institute, Duke University Law School, June 16, 2023. The essay sketches key ideas that are set out in detail in Gerald J. Postema, Law’s Rule: The Nature, Value, and Viability of the Rule of Law (Oxford, 2022). It briefly articulates the core principles of the rule-of-law ideal, its moral foundations, key institutions in which it is typically realized, and signal threats to which it is vulnerable.
Highly recommended.