Understanding of the Rule of Law in the Antipodes

Joanna Siekiera

doi:10.18778/1641-4233.26.05

Authors

Joanna Siekiera University of Bergen, Faculty of Law https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0125-9121

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1641-4233.26.05

Keywords:

rule of law, state of law, law, Antipodes, Australia, New Zealand

Abstract

Understanding the rule of law in the Antipodes, that is in the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand, as a legal value is clear to both of these societies. The rule of law, oftentimes called the state of law, is the basis of the system of values, as well as legal culture, which determines which social values are legally protected and how high their position de facto and de iure is. The hierarchy of the rule of law in the Antipodes shows undoubtedly how various legal norms, unwritten and those codified ones, protect the democratic system with all its principles, along with the rights and freedoms of citizens and persons residing in these two countries.

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Author Biography

Joanna Siekiera, University of Bergen, Faculty of Law

Dr Joanna Siekiera, an international lawyer, Doctor of Social Sciences in public policy sciences. She currently works as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen in Norway on the legal consequences of ocean change and sovereignty of states in Oceania. Dr Siekiera did her PhD studies in New Zealand, at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington on the topic of Pacific regionalism. Her area of expertise is the South Pacific region, Pacific Ocean governance, science diplomacy (ocean diplomacy), and the law of armed conflict (legal advising, NATO legal framework, Central Europe, security in the South Pacific, gender in armed conflict). She is the author of over 100 scientific publications in several languages, 40 legal opinions for the Polish Ministry of Justice, as well as an author of a book Regional Policy in the South Pacific (2021), and co-author of 3 monographs on international relations, including New Zealand’s Statehood, Security and Economics – History and Present (2020).

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