All the more so because the remarkable translation skills of Bonnie Litschewski Paulson and Stanley L. `It is a delight to see Robert Alexy's Begriff und Geltung des Rechts in English translation. as a refreshingly balanced view on the virtues and limitations of the positivist project from beyond the trenches of the Anglo-American debate, it should be at or near the top of any reading list on key issues in contemporary jurisprudence.' a valuable addition to the English literature. The author arrives at a concept of law that systematically links classical elements of legal positivism - authoritative issuance and social efficacy - with the desideratum of nonpositivistic legal theory, correctness of content.
The participant-thesis is demonstrated by appeal to Gustav Radbruch's formula (extreme injustice is not law) and to the judge's balancing of principles in decidingĪ concrete case. This is the perspective of a participant in the legal system, asking for the correct answer to a legal question in this legal system. The decisive point, however, is that there is a perspective, necessary to the law, that necessarily presupposes a nonpositivistic concept of In this context, it can indeed be shown that there are perspectives that bespeak solely a positivistic concept of law. The author makes his case within a conceptual framework of five distinctions that can be variously combined to represent a multiplicity of presuppositions or perspectives underlying the enquiry into the relationship of law and morality. While the conceptual argument alone is too limited toĮstablish a sufficiently strong connection between law and morality, and the normative argument alone fails to address the nature of law, the two arguments together support a nonpositivistic concept of law, toppling legal positivism qua comprehensive theory of law. The author challenges this view, arguing that there are, first, conceptually necessary connections between law and morality and, second, normative reasons for including moral elements in the concept of law. The legal positivist, insisting on the separation of the two, explicates the concept of law independently of morality. Se alle bøker innen Pensum og fagbøker »Īt the heart of this book is the age-old question of how law and morality are related.
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