Challenges to Legal Theory

Essays in Honour of Professor José Iturmendi Morales
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-43944-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Challenges to Legal Theory offers the reader a fascinating journey through a variety of multi-disciplinary topics, ranging from law and literature, and law and religion, to legal philosophy and constitutional law. The collection reflects some of the challenges that the field of legal theory currently faces. It is compiled by a selection of international and Spanish scholars, whose essays are made available in English translation for the first time. The volume is based on a collection of essays, published in Spanish, in honour of Professor José Iturmendi Morales, of Complutense University, Madrid, and brings the rich scholarship of pre-eminent Spanish scholars of law and legal theory to an international audience.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falcón Y Tella, María José

Martínez Muñoz, Juan Antonio

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Beziehungen des Rechts zu anderen Disziplinen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

PART 1

Introduction

María José Falcón y Tella

PART 2

Law and Literature

Revenge in Literature

María José Falcón y Tella

Arbitration and Literature

François Ost

Clarín,Jurist

Ignacio Torres Muro

Some Brief Notes on Ezra Pound and Roman Law

Faustino Martínez Martínez

The Undeniable Humanism of Concepción Arenal

María Eugenia Pérez Monte

PART 3

Constitutional Law

Legal Interpretation

Timothy Endicott

The Constitutional Order

Reforms and Ruptures

Diego Valadés

Normative Provisions and Legal Norms

A Useful Distinction

Francisco Javier Ezquiaga Ganuzas

Some Notes on Equality and Legal Equality

Victoria Iturralde Sesma

On Equality

Ramón Maciá Manso

PART 4

Legal Philosophy

The Law of Nations in Giambattista Vico

Carla Faralli

Artificial Law and “Artificious” Rights

María Amparo Grau Ruiz

Bioethics and Legal Philosophy

An Inevitable and Necessary Reflection

María Casado

Philosophical Reflection and the Law

Juan Antonio Martínez Muñoz

We Are All Vulnerable

Human Capability, Corporeality and Dignity: Functional Diversity Examined in the Light of Martha C. Nussbaum’s Commitment to Justice

Teresa García-Berrio Hernández

PART 5

Law and Religion

Religious Autonomy and Labor Relations

Reflections on Institutions with an Ethos

Javier Martínez-Torrón

Religion, Beliefs, and Freedom of Speech

The Disorientation of the European Court of Human Rights

Rafael Palomino Lozano

Index

Über Autor(innen)

María José Falcón y Tella is Professor of Legal Philosophy (1991) of the Complutense University of Madrid. She is the author of 30 books, many of them translated into different languages, such as Civil Disobedience (2004), Punishment and Culture (2006), Equity and Law (2008), A Three-Dimensional Theory of Law (2010), Jurisprudence in Roman, Anglosaxon and Continental Law (2011), Justice and Law (2014) and Law and Literature (2016), all of them published with Brill/Nijhoff. She was awarded the “National Prize of Studies in Law” in 1987.

Juan Antonio Martinez MuÑoz is Professor of Legal Philosophy (2000) at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has been Director of the Department of Legal Philosophy of this University. He is the author of five books, such as El conocimiento jurídico (4th ed., 2019) and Derechos humanos. ¿Criterios de justicia o ideología política? (2nd ed., 2020) and has published more than fifty articles in his area of specialty.