An institutional theory of Law : new approaches to legal positivism

Authors:Neil MacCormick, Ota Weinberger

Print Book, English, 1992

Edition:2nd pr View all formats and editions

Publisher: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, 1992

Series:

Law and philosophy library

Physical Description:XIV, 229 p. ; 23 cm.

ISBN:

9789027720795, 9027720797

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:636560128

Subjects:

Derecho Filosofía

Filosofía del derecho

Positivismo jurídico

Contents:

The Norm as Thought and as Reality.- Law as Institutional Fact.- Facts and Fact-Descriptions.- On Analytical Jurisprudence.- Beyond Positivism and Natural Law.- Law, Morality and Positivism.- The Analytico-Dialectical Theory of Justice: A Sketch of an Action-Theoretical and Non-Cognitivist Theory of Justice.- Institutional Morality and the Constitution.- The Limits of Rationality in Legal Reasoning.- The Conditio Humana and the Ideal of Justice.