Description: Political theorist Jeremy Waldron makes a bracing case against identifying rule of law with predictability. Seeing the rule of law as just one value to which democracies aspire, he embraces thoughtfulness rather than rote rule-following, flexibility even at the cost of vagueness, and emphasizing procedure and argument over predictable outcomes.
Brief description: Jeremy Waldron is University Professor in the School of Law at New York University.
Review Quotes: Jeremy Waldron is our leading living philosophical writer on the rule of law. In crystal-clear prose informed by real-life illustrations, he reveals the evaluative depth to be found in a relatively thin conception of the rule of law, provided we take more seriously its neglected procedural and institutional aspects.--John Tasioulas, University of Oxford