Rule of law temptations -- Why developing countries prove so resistant to the rule of law -- Global justice -- The rule of law in Islamic thought and practice: a historical perspective -- The viability of the welfare state -- Comparing legal and alternative institutions in finance and commerce -- Law, finance, and the first corporations -- The politics of courts in democratization -- Principled principals in the founding moments of the rule of law -- The fight for basic legal freedoms: mobilization by the legal complex -- Social norms, rule of law, and gender reality: an essay on the limits of the dominant rule of law paradigm -- Constitutionallism and the challenge of ethnic diversity

1. Rule of law