Foundations and Building Blocks of Law

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-94-6236-860-6
Verlag: Eleven International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 650 g

Reihe: Maastricht Law Series

“There is no gap between Is and Ought, but there is a gap between fact and norm.”
“There is a difference between legal powers and legal competences, but there are no power-conferring rules.”
“There is no obligation to comply with contracts.”
“There are no regulative rules, and all rules are constitutive.”

All these claims are controversial in the eyes of many legal theorists. This book argues that they are all true, or justified, if understood in the proper context. The argument starts from the relation between language and facts and continues with a distinction between three kinds of facts, and the role which rules play in the constitution of one of the three kinds. Building on this foundation, the book moves on to analyses of the building blocks of law: duties, obligations, permissions, juridical acts, powers, competences, norms and rights. Interwoven through these analyses, the reader finds discussions of the alleged gap between Is and Ought, and of the logic of normative notions (‘deontic logic’).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hage, Jaap

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. RECURRENT ISSUES; Part A FOUNDATIONS; II. MEANING; III. RULES AS CONTSTRAINTS; IV. FACTS; Part B BUILDING BLOCKS; V. KINDS OF RULES; VI. ELEMENTARY DEONTIC BUILDING BLOCKS; VII. DERIVED DEONTIC BUILDING BLOCKS; VIII. THE NATURE OF NORMS; IX. THE NORMATIVITY OF LAW; X. JURIDICAL ACTS; XI. APPLICATIONS AND ELABORATIONS; XII. CONCLUSION

Über Autor(innen)

After graduating in law and philosophy and writing a PhD-thesis on the relation between meta-ethics and law, Jaap Hage did research on legal logic and the philosophy of legal science, which culminated in two books: Reasoning with Rules and Studies in Legal Logic. He became chair-holder for Jurisprudence at the University of Maastricht and shifted the topic of his research to the basic concepts of law and, recently, to law and the cognitive sciences.