scholarly journals Government Lawyers in the Trump Administration

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Bradley Wendel
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Professional Conduct ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
President Elect ◽  
Trump Administration

The words and actions of candidate, President-Elect, and now President Donald Trump indicate that this Administration will aggressively seek to use state power with little regard for the rule of law. A great deal has been written about the constitutional and administrative law regulating inter- and intra-branch separation of powers. However, there is no comprehensive legal and theoretical analysis of government lawyers as lawyers, subject to regulation by state rules of professional conduct and other positive legal standards. This Article engages with numerous contested issues in the law of lawyering to provide a constructive legal and ethical conception of government legal advisors. In practical terms, it may serve as a source of guidance for lawyers in the new administration, or as a roadmap for discipline by lawyer regulators. More theoretically, it defends a conception of the rule of law as a practice of reason-giving, not dependent upon legal objectivity or determinacy.

scholarly journals História do Direito Administrativo no Brasil (1937-1964): o debate em torno das delegações legislativas

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (35) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauricio Costa Mesurini
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Santa Catarina ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Legislative Delegation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Government

História do Direito Administrativo no Brasil (1937-1964): o debate em torno das delegações legislativasThe history of the Administrative Law in Brazil (1937-1964): the debate about legislative delegation Mauricio Costa Mesurini[1] RESUMO: Trata-se de um trabalho sobre história do Direito Administrativo no Brasil, notadamente no período de 1937 a 1964. O objetivo é mostrar alguns aspectos da trajetória do campo, em especial as transformações favorecidas pela tendência modernizadora, entre elas, o debate em torno das delegações legislativas, um tema que se desenvolveu na doutrina a partir e à margem das disposições constitucionais da época. É inegável a importância da lei para o direito público moderno. Mas o que é a lei? Quem tem o poder de confeccioná-la? “O governo das leis” em substituição ao “governo dos homens”, em verdade uma tautologia, encobre o problema sobre a fonte de onde emanam as leis. Assim sendo, mesmo em um Estado de Direito, a disputa político-jurídica permanece latente e continua em jogo a definição de quem são os “senhores” da legislação. O artigo investiga o debate jurídico em torno das delegações legislativas abordando quatro juristas da época: Francisco Campos, Victor Nunes Leal, Bilac Pinto e Themistocles Cavalcanti. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Direito Administrativo. Direito Constitucional. Delegações legislativas. Separação de poderes. ABSTRACT: This paper is a study on the history of administrative law in Brazil, notably in the period 1937-1964. The purpose is to present some aspects of the development of this field of study, especially the changes favored by the modernization process through which Brazil has passed, such as the debate about legislative delegation, a theme that was developed in the legal doctrine from and beyond the constitutional arrangement of the period. It is undeniable the importance of the legislation to modern public law. But what is legislation? Who has the power to make it? The “rule of law” replacing the “government of men”, in fact a tautology, conceals the problem of the source from where the law emanates. Therefore, even in the bases of the rule of law, the legal-political dispute remains latent, and the definition about who establishes the law remains open. More specifically, the paper analyzes the debate about legislative delegation in Brazil by four legal experts of the period: Francisco Campos, Victor Nunes Leal, Bilac Pinto and Themistocles Cavalcanti. KEYWORDS: Administrative law. Constitutional law. Legislative delegation. Separation of powers.[1] Doutor em História do Direito pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC, 2016. Mestre em 2008 e graduado em 2005 pela Direito Público Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC. Professor de Direito Administrativo da Faculdade Cenecista de Joinville

scholarly journals „Dobre” społeczeństwo i państwo prawa. Prolegomena do konstytucji

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Paweł Kaczorowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
The State ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legal Character

The idea of a law-governed state, which is referred to so commonly, exists as a synonym of the principle of the supreme meaning and standing of the constitution in the state system. The law-governed state in its pure form is one where the law provides not only the framework and barriers for the state and the actions of the authorities, but a state wherein its beginning and foundations are rooted in the law. The concept of the law-governed state has many highly detailed elements (the very existence of the constitution, the separation of powers, the independence of the courts, the legal character of administrative actions, legal protection against decisions made by the authorities, the right to appeal, etc.); its essence, however, is the recognition of the law as a particular means and a yardstick with which both the state’s system and the recognition of the legal standards vested with the power to shape social relationships, the regulatory power, are moulded. It is the prestige of the law – nomos basileus – which should be the source of state order. The supremacy of the law provides the premise on which the introduction of every detailed solution which turns the idea of the law-governed state into specifics, is based. If the rule of law, rather than that of the authorities is to exist, this must be a law wherein each citizen may contribute to its shape; ideally it will be one established directly by the citizens rather than by the established authorities, democratic in an indirect way. This must be a law binding upon everyone equally, observed by everyone, operating effectively and surely. It must also be a law made for society’s sake rather than for that of an idea, and it must be fitting to those realities, standards and common practices that exist in that society. It must also be a law not too rigorous and imposing neither excessive requirements nor strange measures.

Lawyers as Activists

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Dorf ◽  
Michael S. Chu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Court Action ◽  
The Government ◽  
Trump Administration

Lawyers played a key role in challenging the Trump administration’s Travel Ban on entry into the United States of nationals from various majority-Muslim nations. Responding to calls from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), which were amplified by social media, lawyers responded to the Travel Ban’s chaotic rollout by providing assistance to foreign travelers at airports. Their efforts led to initial court victories, which in turn led the government to soften the Ban somewhat in two superseding executive actions. The lawyers’ work also contributed to the broader resistance to the Trump administration by dramatizing its bigotry, callousness, cruelty, and lawlessness. The efficacy of the lawyers’ resistance to the Travel Ban shows that, contrary to strong claims about the limits of court action, litigation can promote social change. General lessons about lawyer activism in ordinary times are difficult to draw, however, because of the extraordinary threat Trump poses to civil rights and the rule of law.

Good Governance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henk Addink
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
National Level ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Modern State ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Third ◽  
Legal Perspective ◽  
Further Development

The pivotal aim of this book is to explain the creation, development, and impact of good governance from a conceptual, principal perspective and in the context of national administrative law. Three lines of reasoning have been worked out: developing the concept of good governance; specification of this concept by developing principles of good governance; and implementation of these principles of good governance on the national level. In this phase of further development of good governance, it is important to have a clear concept of good governance, presented in this book as the third cornerstone of a modern state, alongside the concepts of the rule of law and democracy. That is a rather new national administrative law perspective which is influenced by regional and international legal developments; thus, we can speak about good governance as a multilevel concept. But the question is: how is this concept of good governance further developed? Six principles of good governance (which in a narrower sense also qualify as principles of good administration) have been further specified in a systematic way, from a legal perspective. These are the principles of properness, transparency, participation, effectiveness, accountability, and human rights. Furthermore, the link has been made with integrity standards. The important developments of each of these principles are described on the national level in Europe, but also in countries outside Europe (such as Australia, Canada, and South Africa). This book gives a systematic comparison of the implementation of the principles of good governance between countries.

Crisis of the Rule of Law in Europe: The Cases of Hungary, Poland and Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-398
Author(s):  
David Parra Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
Division Of Powers ◽  
European Democracy ◽  
Aggressive Interference

Democracy is an instrument at the service of a noble purpose: to ensure the freedom and equality of all citizens by guaranteeing the civil, political and social rights contained in constitutional texts. Among the great principles on which this instrument rests is the division of powers, which consists, substantially, in the fact that power is not concentrated, but that the various functions of the State are exercised by different bodies, which, moreover, control each other. Well, the increasingly aggressive interference of the Executive and, to a lesser extent, the Legislative in material spheres that should be reserved exclusively for the Judiciary, violates this principle and, for this reason, distorts the idea of democracy, an alarming trend that, for some time now, are observed in European Union countries such as Hungary, Poland and Spain. Preventing the alarming degradation of European democracy, of which these three countries are an example, requires not only more than necessary institutional reforms to ensure respect for these principles and prevent the arbitrariness of the public authorities, but also a media network and an education system that explains and promotes these values and principles, that is, one that makes citizens aware of and defend constitutionalism. Keywords: Rule of law; Democracy; Separation of powers; judicial independence; Europe.

scholarly journals The constitutionality of default arbitration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Asher Gabriel Emanuel
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Public Provision ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Essential State ◽  
State Functions ◽  
Commercial Disputes

<p>A proposed Bilateral Arbitration Treaty would subject international commercial disputes between enterprises in signatory states’ jurisdictions to arbitration unless the parties agreed to the contrary. This marks a substantial departure from conventional understandings of arbitration as based on the consent of the parties. More importantly, the policy would modify the jurisdiction of the courts, removing a large number of disputes to offshore tribunals subject to minimal judicial oversight. This paper explores the constitutional propriety of such a policy, with particular attention paid to the principles of the separation of powers, the rule of law, public provision of essential State functions, open justice, and democracy. These constitutional principles would be subverted if the policy were to operate within the existing regulatory framework for arbitration. The paper makes recommendations for possible modifications to the policy that would make it a better fit with the constitution.</p>

scholarly journals Presidential Signing Statements and the Rule of Law as an “Unstructured Institution"

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Shane
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Signing Statements ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
The Government ◽  
Signing Statement

The George W. Bush administration's use of signing statements embodied a disturbingly thin and formalist view of the rule of law that goes hand-in-hand with its vision of the separation of powers. Its signing statement practice was notable both for the extremity of the constitutional vision that these statements typically asserted—especially with regard to the so-called "unitary executive”—and with regard to their sheer volume, unmatched in the entire history of the executive. To understand the latter phenomenon, the Bush signing statements need to be understood not just as an expression of a constitutional philosophy, but also as an effort to institutionalize through faux law a highly presidential ethos as a fundamental element of the spirit with which the government conducts business.

A PROPÓSITO DEL ORIGEN Y EVOLUCIÓN DEL RÉGIME ADMINISTRATIF

2010 ◽  
pp. 767-785
Author(s):  
JESÚS LEGUINA VILLA
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Public Rights ◽  
Statutory Power ◽  
Administrative Courts ◽  
Ancien Régime ◽  
Principle Of Legality

El Derecho Administrativo es un producto propio y específico del constitucionalismo nacido tras la ruptura revolucionaria con el Antiguo Régimen, que resultará profundamente condicionado por las circunstancias sociopolíticas del país, Francia, donde nació. El Régimen Administrativo del Estado de Derecho se conforma a partir del principio de legalidad, de la potestad reglamentaria, de las libertades públicas y los derechos públicos subjetivos, de la responsabilidad de la Administración y del control a través de la jurisdicción contencioso-administrativa. Administrazio Zuzenbidea konstituzionalismoaren berezko produktua espezifikoa da, Frantziako Iraultzak Erregimen Zaharrarekin apurtu ostean sortua eta herrialde horren egoera soziopolitikoak sakon baldintzatua. Zuzenbide Estatuaren Administrazio Araubideak osatzeko hauek guztiak hartzen dira abiapuntu: legezkotasun-printzipioa, arauzko ahala, askatasun publikoak eta eskubide publiko subjektiboak, Administrazioaren erantzukizuna eta administrazio-auziarekiko jurisdikzioaren bidez egiten den kontrola. Administrative Law is a product typical and specific of the constitutionalism born after the revolutionary break-off with the Ancien Regime, which was deeply conditioned by the sociopolitical circumstances of the State, France, where it was born. The Administrative Regime of the Rule of Law was made up from the point of view of the principle of legality, the statutory power, public freedoms and subjective public rights, the liability by the Administration and the review by means of the contentious administrative courts.

Judicial Independence: Who Cares?

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil MacCormick
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Judicial Independence ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Constitutional Changes

This lecture discusses judicial independence. It notes that the increase in concern over judicial independence was due to recent developments in Scotland, England and Wales. The constitutional changes also led to new relationships between ministers and judges, which in turn has led to governmental declarations to respect the rule of law and judicial independence. The lecture also stresses the importance of considering and re-asserting the principles that justify judicial independence, as well as the underlying concept of separation of powers.

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