Law's Ideal Dimension

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-19-879683-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Law's Ideal Dimension provides a comprehensive account in English of renowned legal theorist Robert Alexy's understanding of jurisprudence, as expanded upon from his publications A Theory of Legal Argumentation (OUP 1989), A Theory of Constitutional Rights (OUP 1985), and The Argument from Injustice (OUP 1992).

The collection is divided into three parts. Part One concerns the nature of law: it explores its real and ideal dimensions and how the ideal dimension of law is sometimes employed but does not play a systematically important role. Part Two discusses constitutional rights, human rights, and proportionality. It defends the construction of constitutional rights as principles against objections raised by the rule construction and elaborates on the nature of constitutional rights as well as the mathematical balancing of those rights. Part Three concerns the relation between argumentation, correctness, and law. The author concludes this volume with a biographical reflection.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alexy, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: The Nature of Law

- 1: The Nature of Legal Philosophy

- 2: On the Concept and the Nature of Law

- 3: The Dual Nature of Law

- 4: Law, Morality, and the Existence of Human Rights

- 5: An Answer to Joseph Raz

- 6: The Ideal Dimension of Law

- 7: Gustav Radbruch's Concept of Law

- Part II: Constitutional Rights, Human Rights, and Proportionality

- 8: The Construction of Constitutional Rights

- 9: Balancing, Constitutional Review, and Representation

- 10: The Existence of Human Rights

- 11: The Weight Formula

- 12: Formal Principles: Some Replies to Critics

- 13: Ideal 'Ought' and Optimization

- 14: Human Dignity and Proportionality

- 15: Proportionality and Rationality

- 16: The Absolute and the Relative Dimension of Constitutional Rights

- Part III: Argumentation, Correctness, and Law

- 17: A Discourse-Theoretical Conception of Practical Reason

- 18: Problems of Discourse Theory

- 19: Legal Argumentation as Rational Discourse

- 20: Jürgen Habermas's Theory of the Indeterminacy of Law and the Rationality of Adjudication

- 21: Law and Correctness

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Alexy, Professor of Public Law and Legal Philosophy at Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany.

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 to 1998. Alexy's other titles published by OUP include A Theory of Legal Argumentation, The Argument from Injustice, and A Theory of Constitutional Rights.