Notes to The Rule of Law

1. Some say that this account neglects certain well-known difficulties of the Common Law: its opacity, the ad hoc character of its development, its unpredictability, and its inherent retroactivity. For good accounts, see Bentham 1782: 184–95 and Postema 1986: 267–301.

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