The Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence is a comprehensive treatment of the issues in legal philosophy and general jurisprudence. This major reference work will consist of a Theoretical Part, 5 volumes, to be published in 2005, and a Historical Part, 6 volumes, scheduled to be published by the end of 2006.
The work is aimed at jurists and at legal and practical philosophers. The theoretical part covers the main topics of contemporary debate. The historical volumes account for the development of legal thought from ancient Greek times through the...
The Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence is a comprehensive treatment of the issues in legal philosophy and gene...
Volume 1 The Law and the Right, a Reappraisal of the Reality that Ought to beby Enrico Pattaro This work brings out and recovers the normative dimension of law, called "the reality that ought to be," placing within this reality the idea of what is right. Part I reconstructs the current as well as the traditional civil-law conception of the reality that ought to be and raises some critical theoretical issues. Part II introduces some basic concepts on language and behaviour and presents a conception of norms as beliefs. Part III aims to find explanations for the idea of a reality that...
Volume 1 The Law and the Right, a Reappraisal of the Reality that Ought to beby Enrico Pattaro This work brings out and recovers the normative ...
Der zeitgenössische Begriff des Rechtsstaats wird noch immer belastet durch die Vorstellung, Recht und Staat seien letztlich identisch in dem Sinne, daß beide zusammengehören wie die zwei Seiten einer Medailleund insofern eine substanzielle Einheit bilden. Entsprechendes gilt cum grano salis für das Wort und den Begriff Rule of Law, dessen politische, moralische und geschichtliche Voraussetzungen und Prämissen heute auf dem Prüfstand stehen. Im Zentrum der Untersuchungen, die in diesem Band vereint sind, stehen vor allem diejenigen Verfassungs- und Rechtsprobleme, die sich aus dem...
Der zeitgenössische Begriff des Rechtsstaats wird noch immer belastet durch die Vorstellung, Recht und Staat seien letztlich identisch in dem Sinne, ...
Volume 11, the sixth of the historical volumes of A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, offers a fresh, philosophically engaged, critical interpretation of the main currents of jurisprudential thought in the English-speaking world of the 20th century. It tells the tale of two lectures and their legacies: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s "The Path of Law" (1897) and H.L.A. Hart's Holmes Lecture, "Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals" (1958). Holmes's radical challenge to late 19th century legal science gave birth to a rich variety of competing approaches to...
Volume 11, the sixth of the historical volumes of A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, offers a fresh, philosophically engaged...
