Institutionalized Reason The Jurisprudence of Robert Alexy

by Klatt, Matthias

• ISBN13: 9780191739354
• ISBN10: 0191739359
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2012-04-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Matthias Klatt is Professor for Public Law, EU Law, Public International Law and Jurisprudence at the University of Hamburg.

Table of Contents

1. Robert Alexy's Philosophy of Law as System, Matthias Klatt
Section 1: The Nature of Law
2. How Law Claims, What Law Claims, John Gardner
3. Defect and Deviance in Natural Law Jurisprudence, Mark C. Murphy
4. A 'Justified Normativity' Thesis in Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law?: Rejoinders to Robert Alexy and Joseph Raz, Stanley L. Paulson
Section 2: The Nature of Constitutional Rights
5. Legal Objectivity and the Illusion of Legal Principles, Larry Alexander
6. Constitutional Rights and the Rule of Law, T.R.S. Allan
7. The Doctrine of Balancing - its Strengths and Weaknesses, Matthias Jestaedt
8. Common Law Thinking in German Jurisprudence - on Alexy's Principles Theory, Jan Henrik Klement
9. Alexy's Theory of Constitutional Rights and the Problem of Judicial Review, Mattias Kumm
10. The Principles Theory, Ralf Poscher
11. Constitutional Rights and Statutory Limitations, Julian Rivers
Section 3: The Nature of Legal Argumentation
12. The Dual Character of Concepts and the Discourse Theory of Law, Maeve Cooke
13. Correctness and Legitimacy in the Discourse Theory of Law, Cristina Lafont
14. Balancing, Subsumption, and the Constraining Role of Legal Text, Frederick Schauer
Section 4: Comments and Responses
15. Comments and Responses, Robert Alexy