Robert Alexy, Bonnie Paulson, Stanley Paulson

The Argument from Injustice

A Reply to Legal Positivism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Alexy confronts the legal positivist view in this classic work of legal philosophy. He formulates an accessible concept of law that systematically links classical elements of legal positivism with nonpositivistic legal theory, challenging the prevailing orthodoxies of modern jurisprudence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 213g
• ISBN-13: 9780199584215
• ISBN-10: 0199584214
• Artikelnr.: 29738431

Autorenporträt

Robert Alexy has been Professor of Public Law and Legal Philosophy at Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, since 1986. He was President of the German Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) from 1994-1998. Other books published by OUP include A Theory of Legal Argumentation and A Theory of Constitutional Rights.

Inhaltsangabe

I The Problem of Legal Positivism
1: The Basic Positions
2: The Practical Significance of the Debate
II The Concept of Law
1: Central Elements
2: Positivistic Concepts of Law
3: Critique of Positivistic Concepts of Law
III The Validity of Law
1: Concepts of Validity
2: Collisions of Validity
3: Basic Norm
IV Definition