Michael Sevel is Senior Lecturer in Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney Law School.

Acknowledgements; List of contributors; List of tables; Introduction; PART I: The Concept, its History, and Value; 1. The Rule-of-Law Imaginary: Regarding Iustitia; 2. At Present, The Future of the Rule of Law is History; 3. The Rule of Law Through the Ages; 4. What is the Rule of Law? Political, Traditional, Rhetorical; 5. Equality and the Rule of Law; 6. Transnational Justice and the Rule of Law; 7. Official Rule Departures; 8. Lon Fuller and the Rule of Law; 9. The Value of a Procedural Rule of Law: A Pragmatist Interactional Theory; 10. The Values of the Rule of Law; PART II: Politics and Practice; 11. The Rule of Law and the Social Ethos; 12. "Politically Smart Legal Adaptation": A Critical Perspective on Contemporary Rule of Law Reform; 13. How Intermediaries Broker the Rule of Law Transnationally; 14. Wigs for the Whigs: Why the Oppressed in Partial Rule of Law States are not Mystified and Why We Should Listen to Them; 15. States of Emergency and the Rule of Law; 16. Can the Rule of Law Really Replace the Rule of Men and Women? 17. The Many Functions of the Rule of Law in Different Contexts; 18. Rule of Law and Translation; 19. Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law; PART III: The State and Beyond; 20. South Africa: A Valuable Viewpoint for Considering Contemporary Debates about the Rule of Law; 21. Legality, the Rule of Law, and the Path to Inter-legality in the Extra-State Setting; 22. The Rule of Law in Human Rights: The European Example; 23. Authoritarian Rule of Law Deploys Political Gaslighting: Singapore Legislates Against Fake News; 24. Conceptualizing the Chinese Party-State Without the Rule of Law; 25. Republicanism and the International Rule of Law; 26. Constitutionalism for International Law; 27. The United Nations and the Rule of Law; 28. The Rule of Law at Sea