Rule of Law

- Introductions
- Theory and critique of the rule of law, Danilo Zolo
- The rule of law: an historical introduction, Pietro Costa

Part I: The European and the North-American historical experiences
- The rule of law and the 'liberties of the English'
- The interpretation by Albert Venn Dicey, Emilio Santoro
- Popular sovereignty, rule of law and 'rule of judges' in the United States of America, Brunella Casalini
- Rechtsstaat and individual rights in German constitutional history, Gustavo Gozzi
- tat de droit and national sovereignty in France, Alain Laquize
- Rechtsstaat and constitutional justice in Austria
- Hans Kelsen's contribution, Giorgio Bongiovanni

Part II: The contemporary theoretical debate
- The rule of law between past and future, Luigi Ferrajoli
- Beyond the rule law: tyranny of judges or anarchy of lawyers?, Pier Paolo Portinaro
- Rule of law and gender identity, Anna Loretoni
- Machiavelli, the republican tradition and the rule of law, Luca Baccelli
- Rule of law and spontaneous order
- Bruno Leoni and Friedrich von Hayek's criticism of the Euro-continental rule of law, Maria Chiara Pievatolo

Part III: Rule of law and colonialism
- Rule of law and natives in North America, Bartolom Clavero
- The colonial model of the rule of law: the African constitution in Guinea, Carlos Petit
- Part IV: Rule of law and Islamic culture
- Islamic perspectives on constitutionalism, Raja Bahlul
- The rule of morally constrained law
- The case of contemporary Egypt, Baudouin Dupret

Part V: Rule of law and oriental cultures
- 'Asian values' and the rule of law, Alice Ehr-Soon Tay
- The rule of law and Indian society
- From colonialism to post-colonialism, Ananta Kumar Giri
- The Chinese legal tradition and the European spirit of the rule of law, Wu Shu-chen
- Modern constitutional development in China, Lin Feng
- Human rights and the rule of law in contemporary Chinese legal philosophy and political practice, Wang Zhenmin and Li