Nicos Stavropoulos (University of Oxford - Faculty of Law) has posted The Rule of Law on SSRN. Here is the abstract: On the approach based on the standard conception of political authority, the rule of law is typically understood as a set of contingent attributes of legal rules (clear, prospective, possible to comply with, and so on). Its subject matter is authority ruling us by conveying authoritative instructions meant to guide our action, and it purports to improve the instructions’ suitability to the task.