1. Political theory and law
Week 4 & 5

2. Political theory and law

3. POLITICAL THEORY AND LAW
Rule of Law
Locke – law as a guarantee of individual liberty
Dicey – four features of rule of law
Punishment for breaches of law
Equal subjection to the law
Certainty of punishment
Ordinary law of the land

4. Political theory of law
Natural Law
Positive Law

5. Political theory and law
“Men and women of marriageable age have the right to marry and to found a family, according to the national laws governing the exercise of this right.”

6. Political theory and law
“No one shall be held guilty of any criminal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a criminal offence under national or international law at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the criminal offence was committed.”

7. Political theory and law
ORDER

8. POLITICAL THEORY AND LAW
Discipline and control
Natural harmony

9. Political theory and law
Punishment
Retributivism
Deterrence
Rehabilitation

10. Political theory and law
“Today … we have to say that a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory” Max Weber

11. Political theory and law
Leonidis v. Greece