Preface.

In 30 years of writing about the rule of law, Martin Krygier has not reached a final understanding of this most important legal and political ideal, any more than anyone else has. Krygier's question is a good one: "[W]hat if the problem is less that the rule of law was installed but failed to do much good than that what was installed was not yet the rule of law but only bits of legal apparatus not on their own up to the job?" 1 Philip Selznick, "Legal Cultures and the Rule of Law" in Martin Krygier and Adam Czarnota (ed), I The Rule of Law after Communism i (Dartmouth, 1999) 21, cited in Clarence Ling, "Martin Krygier's Contribution to the Rule of Law", I Western Australian Jurist i 4 (2013) 211, at p. 215. [Extracted from the article]