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The Landscape of the Law

The Reith Lectures

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How Good Is the Rule of Law in the West?

How good in practice is the rule of law in the west, and particularly in the anglo sphere? To day, there are four threats that i would identify. First we must pose the familiar question about how far our civil liberties have been eroded by the national security state. A second threat is the very obvious one posed by the intrusion of european law, with its civil law character, into the english legal system. This may be considered napoleon's revenge, a creeping frenchification of the common law. The third threat is the increasing complexity and sloppiness of statute law on both sides of the atlantic as the mania for elaborate regulation spreads through the political class. And

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