The Decline of Private Law

A Philosophical History of Liberal Legalism
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5099-0790-8
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 674 g

This book is a large-scale historical reconstruction of liberal legalism, from its inception in the mid-nineteenth century, the moment in which the jurists forged the alliance between political liberalism and legal expertise embodied in classical private law doctrine, to the contemporary anxiety about the possibility of both a liberal solution to the problem of political justification and of law as a respectable form of expert knowledge. Each stage in the history is a moment of synthesis between a substantive and a methodological idea. The former is the liberal political theory of the period, purporting to provide a solution to the problem of political justification. The latter is a conception of legal method or science, supposedly vindicating the access of the expert to the political choices embodied in the law. Thus, each moment in the history of liberal legalism integrates a political theory with a jurisprudential conception. Although it reaches the unsettling conclusion that liberal legalism has largely failed by its own standards, the book urges us to avoid quietism, scepticism or cynicism, in the hope that a deeper understanding of the fragility of our values and institutions inspires a more thoughtful, broadminded and nurtured citizenship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ribeiro, Gonçalo de Almeida

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Idea of Political Liberalism

I. The Liberal Hypothesis

II. Majoritarian Government

III. Democratic Legitimacy

IV. The Trouble with Majoritarianism

V. Reasonable Pluralism

VI. Freestanding Principles

VII. Politics and Justice

VIII. Political Liberalism

IX. Pluralism within Liberalism

2. Kant and the Will Theory

I. Why Kant?

II. Kant's Moral System

III. Moral Value in the Groundwork

IV. The Nature of Recht

V. The Rightful Condition

VI. Private Right

VII. The Will Theory

VIII. Norm and Exception

3. The Rise of Classical Private Law

I. From Theory to Ideology

II. Reception of the Will Theory

III. Rise and Decline of Iurisprudentia

IV. Modern Legal Science

V. The Savignian System (i): Substance

VI. The Savignian System (ii): Method

VII. The Triumph of Formalism

VIII. Classical Private Law

4. The Socialisation of Private Law

I. The Social Question

II. The Social Jurists

III. The Emergence of Social Law

IV. The Social in Private Law

V. The Critique of Formalism

VI. Teleological Jurisprudence

VII. Culpa in Contrahendo

VIII. Abuse of Rights

5. The Politicisation of Private Law

I. On 'Legal Realism'
II. The Collapse of Private/Public

III. Confl icting Considerations

IV. Rules and Principles
V. The Indeterminacy of Doctrine

VI. The Indeterminacy of Rules

VII. The Indeterminacy of Grounds

VIII. Ideology in Private Law

Über Autor(innen)

Ribeiro, Gonçalo de Almeida
Gonçalo de Almeida Ribeiro is Professor of Law at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Judge of the Constitutional Court of Portugal.