caa a22 4500 388074108 CHVBK 20180307125156.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0841820900002186 doi S0841820900002186 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0841820900002186 Taiwo Olufemi The Rule of Law: The New Leviathan? [Elektronische Daten] [Olufemi Taiwo] These are the best of times for the Rule of Law. In all parts of the world, states, governments, and individuals, have found in the rule of law, at various times, a rallying cry, a principle of social ordering that promises the dawn of a just society that its supporters in Euro-American democracies claim to be its crowning glory, or a set of practices that is a sine qua non of a good society. The pursuit of the ideal is nothing new: after all, even those states where it was observed more often in its breach always paid lip service to it. And the defunct socialist countries of Eastern Europe, while they existed, could not escape its lure even as they sought to give it a different nomenclature—socialist legality. The movement towards the rule of law has accelerated after the collapse of Soviet communism and its foster progeny in different parts of the world. Given the present momentum towards the rule of law and the widespread enthusiasm with which it is being embraced and pursued at the global level, some would consider it somewhat churlish for anyone to inject any note of doubt or caution. This is more so when such a note emanates from Marxist quarters. But that is precisely what I wish to do in this essay. Although I do not intend to rain on the rule of law's entire parade, I surely propose to rain on a segment of it: the Marxist float. I propose to look at the issue within the context of the Marxist politico-philosophical tradition. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence Cambridge University Press 12/1(1999-01), 151-168 0841-8209 12:1<151 1999 12 CJL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0841820900002186 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0841820900002186 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Taiwo Olufemi NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence Cambridge University Press 12/1(1999-01), 151-168 0841-8209 12:1<151 1999 12 CJL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge