Legal Scholarship as a Source of Law

2. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-60371-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 165 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 283 g

This book offers a philosophical analysis of the role played by legal scholarship in the written judicial decisions of different Western legal systems. Based on a positivist (and, more specifically, Hartian) theory of law, the book discusses the concept of a source of law and the possibility of including within that concept the writings of legal scholars. It also discusses the concept of authority and the structure of authority-based arguments, such as those that judges often employ when referring to legal scholarship in their judgments.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shecaira, Fábio Perin

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.- Part I: The Main Argument.- 1  Introduction.- 2  What Is a Source of Law?.- 3  Sources and Reasons.- 4  Legal Scholarship as a Source of Law.- 5  Formalism and the Use of Legal Scholarship.- 6 Normative Questions.- 7. Taking Stock.- Part II: Developments.- 8. Sources of Law are not Legal Norms.- 9. Legal Arguments from Scholarly Authority.- 10. Legal Scholarship as the Subject Matter of Jurisprudence.- 11. Legal Sciences and Its Role in Legal Reasoning.- 12. Concluding Thoguhts: Anatomy, Self-containment, and self-sufficiency.

Über Autor(innen)

Fábio Perin Shecaira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Faculty of Law, Brazil