Law in its own right

Law in its own right / Henrik Palmer Olsen and Stuart Toddington.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Olsen, Henrik Palmer
Other Authors: Toddington, Stuart
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 1999.
Series:Legal theory today.
Subjects:
Law > Philosophy.
Natural obligations.
Legal positivism.
Jurisprudence.
Obedience (Law)
law (discipline)
LAW > Jurisprudence.
LAW > General Practice.
LAW > Reference.
LAW > Essays.
LAW > Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW > Practical Guides.
Jurisprudence
Law > Philosophy
Legal positivism
Natural obligations
Obligations (droit)
Obligations naturelles.
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Table of Contents:
  • Half Title Page; Half Title verso; Title Page; Title verso; General Editor''s Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1. The State of Legal Theory Today; The Obligation to Obey; A Wider Theoretical Context; ''Autonomy'' and ''Artificiality''; Naturalism and Positivism; Methodological and Substantive Ambiguities; The Characterisation of Morality; Evaluation and Description; ''Morality'' or ''Democracy''?; Legal Validity and ''Legal Validity''; 2. The Good Sense of Legal Positivism; The ''Autonomy'' of Law; Morally Sensitive Legal Positivism; Problems Ahead; Legal Validity?
  • ''Technical'' Legal Validity?3. Legal Theory in Sociological Terms; Terminology; The Case for the ''Ideal-type''; Conceptualising Society; Rethinking the Concept of ''Function''; Durkheim, Weber and Marx?; Functionalist Jurisprudence?; A Fresh Start?; Defending the Idea of ''Social Structure''; 4. Legal, Morality or ''The People''?; Weber, Schmitt and ''Disenchantment''; Constitutionalism in Pluralist Society; Constitutionalism and Democracy; Discretion, Democracy and the Rule of Law; 5. Law as a Social Contract; The IA Theory as a Social Contract; The Continuity of Practical Reason.
  • 6. The Elements of ''Transparent Autonomy''Categories, Procedures and Rules; Formalistic Interpretation: Facts and Norms; Finnis: Legal Authority and Moral Incommensurability; Finnis and Dworkin; Attributes of a Theory of Authority and Interpretation; The Implausibility of Incommensurability; Commensurability and Coherence; Determinate Presuppostions of Agency; Validity and Obligation; Index.

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