In any country where there is a Bill of Rights, constitutional rights reasoning is an important part of the legal process. As more and more countries adopt Human Rights legislation and accede to international human rights agreements, and as the European Union introduces its own Bill of Rights, judges struggle to implement these rights consistently and sometimes the reasoning behind them is lost. Examining the practice in other jurisdictions can be a valuable guide. Robert Alexy's classic work reconstructs the reasoning behind the jurisprudence of the German Basic Law and in doing so provides...

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What is to be understood by 'rational legal argument'? To what extent can legal reasoning be rational? Is the demand for rationality in legal affairs justified? And what are the criteria of rationality in legal reasoning? The answer to these questions is not only of interest to legal theorists and philosophers of law. They are pressing issues for practicing lawyers, and a matter of concern for every citizen active in the public arena. Not only the standing of academic law as a scientific discipline, but also the legitimacy of judicial decisions depends on the possibility of rational legal...

In any country where there is a Bill of Rights, constitutional rights reasoning is an important part of the legal process. As more and more countries adopt Human Rights legislation and accede to international human rights agreements, and as the European Union introduces its own Bill of Rights, judges struggle to implement these rights consistently and sometimes the reasoning behind them is lost. Examining the practice in other jurisdictions can be a valuable guide. Robert Alexy's classic work reconstructs the reasoning behind the jurisprudence of the German Basic Law and in doing so provides...

Alexy unternimmt es, unter Berücksichtigung vor allem der Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts eine allgemeine Theorie der Grundrechte des Grundgesetzes zu entwickeln. Ihre Kernstücke sind eine Prinzipientheorie und eine Theorie der Struktur subjektiver Rechte. Die Prinzipientheorie ist eine von unhaltbaren Annahmen gereinigte Werttheorie. Die Theorie der Struktur subjektiver Rechte macht die vielfältigen grundrechtlichen Verhältnisse exakt konstruierbar. Auf dieser Basis werden Hauptprobleme der Grundrechtsdogmatik behandelt. Das abschließende Kapitel gilt der Rolle der...