The rule of law and the measure of property

When the property rights and legislation on environmental protection come to the clash, to which side should the supremacy of law be? It is in this aspect of Jeremy Waldron that explores the rule of law both from a historical point of view - considering the theory of ownership of John Locke - and from the point of view of modern legal discussions. Its understanding of the relationship between the rule of law and the protection of private property is characterized by criticality and directness. He criticizes the performance - associated with the model of the expectations of investors that the World Bank adheres to - that a society that cannot protect property rights from legislative restrictions is not able to maintain the rule of law. In this book, which grew out of the Hemlin lectures of 2011, Waldron rejects the idea that the rule of law gives priority to property rights in relation to all other legal forms, and, on the contrary, states that the rule of law must approve and welcome the application of legislation to achieve reasonable social goals