An Institutional Theory of Law: New Approaches to Legal Positivism

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Springer Science & Business Media, 2013 M04 17 - 229 pages
 

Contents

LAW AS INSTITUTIONAL FACT
20
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28
The Special Nature of Norms as ThoughtObjects
35
The Legal Order in the Perspective of Thought and
41
Notes
47
CHAPTER IVON ANALYTICAL JURISPRUDENCE
93
The Problematic Character of Brute Facts
101
Notes
107
Principles of Justice as Determinants of Conduct
153
Claims of Justice in the Context of DecisionMaking
159
The Dialectical Character of Practical Reasoning
167
The Theory of Institutional Morality
173
Positivistic Presuppositions of Institutional Morality
179
Notes
186
THE LIMITS OF RATIONALITY IN LEGAL
189
THE CONDITIO HUMANA AND THE IDEAL
207

LAW MORALITY AND POSITIVISM
127
THE ANALYTICODIALECTICAL THEORY
145

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