Legitimacy

by Wojciech Sadurski; Michael Sevel; Kevin Walton

• ISBN13: 9780192559043
• ISBN10: 0192559044
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2019-03-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Academic UK

Author Biography

Wojciech Sadurski, Challice Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Sydney, Michael Sevel, Lecturer in jurisprudence, University of Sydney, Kevin Walton, Senior lecturer and director of the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence, University of Sydney

Wojciech Sadurski is Challice Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney.

Michael Sevel is a lecturer in jurisprudence at the University of Sydney.

Kevin Walton is senior lecturer and director of the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Wojciech Sadurski, Michael Sevel and Kevin Walton
Part One: Theory of Legitimacy
1. The Control Theory of Legitimacy, Philip Pettit
2. Legitimate Political Authority and Expertise, Fabienne Peter
3. Another Voluntarism: John Rawls on Political Legitimacy, Paul Weithman
Part Two: Legitimacy of the State
4. The Future of State Sovereignty, Joseph Raz
5. The Legitimacy of Whom?, Nicole Roughan
6. The Rule of Law and State Legitimacy, Martin Krygier
7. The Nation State's Legitimation in Post-National Society: A Social Systems Perspective of Values in Legality and Power, Jiri Priban
Part Three: Legitimacy Beyond the State
8. Conceptions of Public Reason in the Supranational Sphere and Legitimacy Beyond Borders, Wojciech Sadurski
9. Who's Afraid of Suprastate Constitutional Theory? Two Reasons to be Sceptical of the Sceptics, Cormac Mac Amhlaigh
10. Perfectionist Liberalism and the Legitimacy of International Law, Michael Sevel
11. Legitimacy Criticisms of International Courts: Not only Fuzzy Rhetoric?, Andreas Follesdal