http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220516-182415-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/os7-counter-law/ Counter-Terrorism, the Rule of Law and the ‘Counter-Law’ Critique Edwards, Phil eng 2022-05-16 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 counter-law Rule of Law State of Emergency Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The Rule of Law requires that the law be a reliable and non-oppressive guide to how citizens should act: as such, the laws governing every citizen must be rationally knowable and voluntarily followable (and, by extension, open to rational challenge and justification). Tendencies in counter-terrorist legislation clearly run counter to the Rule of Law thus understood. Every move away from knowable and followable laws is a move away from it.