This influential book makes sense of abstract debates about the nature of law and the rule of law by situating them in the real-world context of apartheid-era South Africa. The new edition examines the transformation in South Africa since the end of apartheid, and the shift in debates surrounding the rule of law post 9/11.

David Dyzenhaus is a Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Associate Dean, Graduate Studies, of the Faculty of Law, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law in 1990, Professor Dyzenhaus served as Assistant Professor and Canada Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, Queen's University from 1989-1991. He has taught in South Africa, England and Canada in Law, Philosophy and Sociology. He holds a doctorate from Oxford University and law and undergraduate degrees from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. In 2002, he was the Law Foundation Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland. In 2005-06 he was Herbert Smith Visiting Professor in the Cambridge Law Faculty and a Senior Scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

• 1: Judicial Obligation and the Rule of Law


• 2: Adjudication and Racial Segregation


• 3: Adjudication and National Security


• 4: Entrenchment and Dissent


• 5: The Common Law Revival


• 6: The War against Law


• 7: Problems and Puzzles


• 8: The Genealogy of Legal Positivism


• 9: Rule by Law/Rule of Law


• 10: Towards a Culture of Justification