Contemporary legal theorists working on the same essential problems have emphasized the point that RL qualities are very important, and perhaps even essential, to realize the myriad objectives of good governance. and the theoretical scholarship on RL is broadly consistent with both Dicey’s preoccupation with narrowing of official discretion and with the Fuller-Raz focus on the qualities of a good legal system.
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66 Id. at 218. The important sense in which we can still describe the issue of RL’s values as unsettled, however, is because disagreement remains about which of these RL characteristics are in the “essential” category, which are just facilitative of law’s purposes and objectives, and which ought to be reconsidered as perhaps only contingently valuable. Fuller provides us with a famous list; yet it does not purport to describe a hierarchy of values or a way