"Over the past several months, Burma?s pro-democracy icon and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has constantly repeated the refrain that the government must establish the ?rule of law.? That?s a worthwhile goal, as well as a necessary achievement if Burma is going to raise the quality of life and standard of living for its 54 million long-oppressed and impoverished people. In the words of William H. Neukom, the president of the World Justice Project (WJP), ?The rule of law is the foundation for communities of opportunity and equity—it is the predicate for the eradication of poverty, violence, corruption, pandemics and other threats to civil society.? But what does the ?rule of law? mean?..."