...former of the great principle known as the Rule of Law. Stripped of all technicalities, this means that government in all its actions is bound by rules fixed...announced beforehand — rules which make it possible to forsee with fair certainty how the authority will use its coercive powers in given circumstances and...

...RULE OF LAW Hayek has in several contexts made attempts to define the meaning of the Rule of Law(l). "government in all its actions is bound by rules fixed...plan one's individual affairs on the basis of this knowledge(Z)" On the whole I do agree with Hayek that predictability is closely associated with the...

...Contract Clause, 97 Harv. L. Rev. 1414 (1984). Under the rule of law, government may only act through "rules fixed and announced beforehand ~ rules which...individual affairs on the basis of this knowledge." F. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom 72 (rev. ed. 1976). 65 Discussion of this approach is based on written...

...formulation that usefully complements Roberto Unger's, Friedrich Hayek defines the rule of law to mean that "government in all its actions is bound by rules fixed...will use its coercive powers in given circumstances" (1944: 72].) Good law facilitates acceptance of bureaucratic decisionmaking by cloaking official roles...

...formulation that usefully complements Roberto Unger's, Friedrich Hayek defines the rule of law to mean that "government in all its actions is bound by rules fixed and announced beforehand—rules which make it possible to foresee with fair certainty how the authority will use...

...former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law. Stripped of all technicalities, this means that government in all its actions is bound by rules fixed...plan one's individual affairs on the basis of this knowledge.1 In like fashion, the distinguished British historian EP Thompson observed: [TJhere is a...

...nineteenth-century German Rechtsstaat.122 "Stripped of all technicalities," Hayek wrote, the rule of law "means that government in all its actions is bound by rules fixed...plan one's individual affairs on the basis of this knowledge."123 Generality of rules barred "ad hoc action."124 Rules "could almost be described as a...

...restricting their scope.21 Friedrich von Hayek, for example, claims that the Rule of Law "means that government in all its actions is bound by rules fixed...the authority will use its coercive powers in given circumstances."22 Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III argued that the constitutional Founders supported...

...former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law. Stripped of all technicalities, this means that government in all its actions is bound by rules fixed...plan one's individual affairs on the basis of this knowledge.12 In recent years, Joseph Raz has rejected Hayek's argument against socialistic economic...

...a legal system and of the power to issue orders according to its rules. The rule of law "means that government in all its actions is bound by rules fixed...beforehand — rules which make it possible to foresee with a fair certainty how the authority will use its coercive powers in given circumstances and to plan...