Knowing What the Law Is

Legal Theory in a New Key
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5099-5133-8
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 320 g

This book provides a selective and somewhat cheeky account of prominent positions in legal theory, such as American legal realism, modern legal positivism, sociological systems theory, institutionalism and critical legal studies. It presents a relational approach to law and a new perspective on legal sources.

The book explores topics of legal theory in a playful manner. It is written and composed in a way that refutes the widespread prejudice that legal theory is a dreary subject, with a cast of characters that occasionally interact in order to illustrate the claims of the book.

Legal experts claim to know what the law is. Legal theory-or jurisprudence-explores whether such claims are warranted. The discipline first emerged at the turn of the 20th century, when the self-confidence of both legal scholarship and judicial craftsmanship became severely shattered, but the crisis continues to this day.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Somek, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Legal Knowledge

2. Mild and Wild Formalism

3. American Legal Realism

4. Modern Legal Positivism

5. The Demise of Modern Legal Positivism

6. Objective Spirit

7. Rupture

8. The Legal Relation

Über Autor(innen)

Somek, Alexander
Alexander Somek is Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Alexander Somek is Professor of Legal Philosophy at the Institute of Legal Philosophy at the University of Vienna School of Law, Austria.