Conceptual Jurisprudence: Methodological Issues, Classical Questions and New Approaches

ISBN-13: 9783030788025 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 300 str.

Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora; Gonzalo Villa Rosas

Spis treści

Introduction: The Questions of Conceptual Jurisprudence.- Part I. Methodological Questions.- On the Concept of the Concept of Law.- Re-evaluating the Value Neutral Approach.- TBD.- TBD.- Part II. The Legal System as a Conceptual Tool.- A Positivist Formulation of the Legal System.- The Concept of Legal System Revisited.- The Good, The Bad and the Puzzled: Coercion and Compliance.- TBD.- Part III. Law, Morality, and Normativity.- Hard Cases and Legal Validity: Hart’s Insights on the Internal Normativity of Law.- Is Hart’s Theory a form of Inclusive Legal Positivism?.- Between Authority and Interpretation.- The positivist account of lawyer’s role: legal ethics and the concept of law.- Law, Coordination Problems and Economy.- Part IV. New Theoretical Approaches to Conceptual Jurisprudence.- Law as an Expression of Adopted Justice.- A Dilemma for Shapiro and Plunkett.- Law’s Virtual Empire: The Law-Game Analogy in the 21st Century.- Complex Legal Constructivism.

Blurb

This book brings together leading legal theorists to present original philosophical work on the concept of law - the central question of jurisprudence. It covers five broad topics: firstly it addresses debates concerning the methodology of jurisprudence. In Part II it focuses on the notion of a legal system and its coercive nature, while Part III explores the relationships between law and morality, the traditional point of contention between positivist and non-positivist theories of law. Part IV then examines questions regarding law’s normative character and relationships with practical reason. Lastly, the final part introduces two novel theoretical approaches to conceptual jurisprudence.