Argument from injustice

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Alexy confronts the legal positivist view in this classic work of legal philosophy. He formulates an accessible concept of law that systematically links classical elements of legal positivism with nonpositivistic legal theory, challenging the prevailing orthodoxies of modern jurisprudence.



At the heart of this book is the age-old question of how law and morality are related. The legal positivist, insisting on the separation of the two, explicates the concept of law independently of morality. 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. While the conceptual argument alone is too limited to establish 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 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. In this context, it can indeed be shown that there are perspectives that bespeak solely a positivistic concept of law. The decisive point, however, is that there is a perspective, necessary to the law, that necessarily presupposes a nonpositivistic concept of law. 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 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 deciding a concrete case. 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.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 10 december 2009

Aantal pagina's: 160

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Robert Alexy

Tweede Auteur: Stanley L. Paulson

Co Auteur: Bonnie L. Paulson

Hoofduitgeverij: Oxford University Press

Eerste Vertaler: Stanley Paulson

Tweede Vertaler: Bonnie L. Paulson

Co Vertaler(s): Bonnie L. Paulson

Originele titel: The Argument from Injustice: A Reply to Legal Positivism

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 138 mm

Product hoogte: 9 mm

Product lengte: 215 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 138 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 9 mm

Verpakking lengte: 215 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 209 g

EAN: 9780199584215

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