It is a delight to see Robert Alexy's Begriff und Geltung des Rechts in English translation. All the more so because the remarkable translation skills of Bonnie Litschewski Paulson and Stanley L. Paulson have contributed to a sharpening of many of the arguments in the book...it is by far the most mature statement of Alexy's ideas on the concept of law while serving very well as a retrospective introduction to the philosophical problems in response to which
he developed the discourse theory of law in the first place...The Argument from Injustice is a major contribution to the non-positivist literature. It will become a standard reference for future research in normative jurisprudence.
Robert Alexy has been Professor of Law, Christian Albrechts University Kiel, since 1986. He was Dean of the Faculty of Law, Kiel, 1998-2000. He was President from1994 until 1998, of the German Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR).