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- The rule of law is a key part of a nations success as argued by AJR. A very good exposition for the layman on the rule of law provided by Tom Bingham in the eponymous 'The Rule of Law):https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7734691-the-rule-of-law
While the above is informed by the UK's constitutional arrangement, the 8 principles are near universal when considering nations that have or aim for The Rule of Law.
The principles are:
(1) The law must be accessible and so far as possible intelligible, clear and predictable.
(2) Questions of legal right and liability should ordinarily be resolved by application of the law and not the exercise of discretion.
(3) The laws of the land should apply equally to all, save to the extent that objective differences justify differentiation.
(4) Ministers and public officers at all levels must exercise the powers conferred on them in good faith, fairly, for the purpose for which the powers were conferred, without exceeding the limits of such powers and not unreasonably.
(5) The law must afford adequate protection of fundamental human rights.
(6) Means must be provided for resolving, without prohibitive cost or inordinate delay, bona fide civil disputes which the parties themselves are unable to resolve.
(7) The adjudicative procedures provided by the state should be fair.
(8) The rule of law requires compliance by the state with its obligations in international law as in national law.
- The Rule of Law by Lord Thomas Bingham appears to be a book adaptation of this short lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlMCCGD2TeM
After watching it I can definitely see why they would view these ideas as 'dangerous.'
- Politics and current affairs
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime. By John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. By David Remnick
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers. By Richard McGregor
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory. By Peter Hessler
Molotovâs Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History. By Rachel Polonsky
Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalistâs Frontline Account of Life, Love and War in his Homeland. By Basharat Peer
The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe. By Peter Godwin
The Watchers: The Rise of Americaâs Surveillance State. By Shane Harris
The Rule of Law. By Tom Bingham
The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Childrenâs Futureâand Why They Should Give it Back By David Willetts
Biography and memoir
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance. By Edmund de Waal
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Familyâs Feuds. By Lyndall Gordon
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes. By Stephen Sondheim
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece.By Eric Siblin
History
Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin. By Timothy Snyder
Why the West RulesâFor Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future. By Ian Morris
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962. By Frank Dikotter
Red Plenty: Industry! Progress! Abundance! Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream. By Francis Spufford
A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided. By Amanda Foreman
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of Americaâs Great Migration. By Isabel Wilkerson
Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth. By Hilary Spurling
A History of the World in 100 Objects. By Neil MacGregor
Economics and business
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. By Michael Lewis
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite. By Sebastian Mallaby
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg. By Niall Ferguson
Science and technology
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming. By Paul Edwards
Biology is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life. By Rob Carlson
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves. By Matt Ridley
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. By Steven Johnson
What Technology Wants. By Kevin Kelly
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. By Siddhartha Mukherjee
Culture, society and travel
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages. By Guy Deutscher
Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, With Some Unexpected Results. By Michael Scott Moore
Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre. By Larry Stempel
McGilchristâs Greek Islands. By Nigel McGilchrist
Fiction
Freedom. By Jonathan Franzen
To the End of the Land. By David Grossman
Parrot and Olivier in America. By Peter Carey
The Unnamed. By Joshua Ferris
Mr Peanut. By Adam Ross
The Imperfectionists. By Tom Rachman
Selected Stories. By William Trevor
Poetry
Human chain. By Seamus Heaney
White Egrets: Poems. By Derek Walcott
(lets hear it for perl one-liners.)
