In the past decade the Rule of Law developments in the world have become contentious; its idea, concept, and global implementation have met growing resistance, which may soon shift the global balance of power, prompting international crisis.

This book offers insights into the globally relevant Rule-of-Law ramifications for human rights, consitutional law, and philosophy of law in the time of such considerable challenges to it. From this legal perspective, the contributors analyze the questions of independence of judiciary, liberal education, freedom of mass media; populism, and corruption. They discuss global civic education, enhanced social inclusion, violence prevention, restorative justice and other methods of civic participation that can create larger opportunities for freedom in a UN world and help overcome increased ideological division between global North and South.

Contributions by: Megan Capp, Yvon Dandurand, Newton Tavares Filho, Friedrich Forsthuber, Rita Haverkamp, Jessica Jahn, Marian Liebmann, Eduardo Pinheiro Granzotto da Silva, Michael Platzer, Gerhard Reissner, William Schabas, Murugesan Srinivasan, Pawan Kumar Sinha, Bernadette Somody, Cora True-Frost, Serife Ceren Uysal, Varsha Vijayan, Thomas Stelzer, Mallika Mahajan, Slawomir Redo
Foreword by: Diego García-Sayán
Afterword by: Pedro R. David