The Future of Post-human Law: a Preface to a New Theory of Necessity, Contingency and Justice New edition

What makes the rule of law so special that it is to conscientiously punish the "bad" doers and reward the "good" ones-such that, where there is the rule of law, peace and order are to be expected, so that "the rule of law is better than the rule of any individual"? Take the case of international law, as an illustration.