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  • Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, Volume 4

    Constitutional Disagreements

    Edited by Dr Christoph Bezemek, Professor Michael Potacs, Professor Dr Alexander Somek ...
    Series series Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy
    In the fourth volume of the Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, scholars in contemporary jurisprudence and constitutional theory discuss who gets to decide and who gets to act when constitutional law is silent or fundamentally controversial.It is the very purpose of Constitutions to settle disagreements: to determine who gets to decide and who gets to act when it comes to the polity and its ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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  • The Constitution of the Legal Relation

    A Pragmatist Philosophy of Law

    by Professor Dr Alexander Somek ...
    This book defends the relational approach to law.It begins by exploring how law is constituted in the context of either rational or reasonable conduct. Having identified reasonableness as the unifying theme of natural law theories, it argues that the form and authority of law originate in the practical resolution of a moral antinomy that these theories leave unaddressed.The reasonableness of law ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, Volume 3

    Legal Reasoning

    Edited by Dr Christoph Bezemek, Professor Michael Potacs, Professor Dr Alexander Somek ...
    Series series Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy
    The third volume of the Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy series focuses on one of the most fiercely contested issues in contemporary legal philosophy: the question of the importance of legal reasoning and how to properly engage with it.This book considers legal reasoning from two different angles: it revolves, on the one hand, around debates concerning interpretation and balancing, but it also ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Knowing What the Law Is

    Legal Theory in a New Key

    by Professor Dr Alexander Somek ...
    This book provides a selective and somewhat cheeky account of prominent positions in legal theory, such as American legal realism, modern legal positivism, sociological systems theory, institutionalism and critical legal studies. It presents a relational approach to law and a new perspective on legal sources.The book explores topics of legal theory in a playful manner. It is written and composed ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, Volume 2

    Normativism and Anti-normativism in Law

    Edited by Dr Christoph Bezemek, Professor Michael Potacs, Professor Dr Alexander Somek ...
    Series series Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy
    This second volume of the Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy series presents 11 chapters which are dedicated to normativist and anti-normativist approaches to law.The book focuses on the question: What is law? Is it a set of obligations imposed on courts and officials to guide their conduct and to assess the conduct of others? Or is it the result of settlements reached by opposing sides that ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Legal Relation

    Legal Theory after Legal Positivism

    by Alexander Somek ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
    What is law? The usual answer is that the law is a system of norms. But this answer gives us at best half of the story. The law is a way of relating to one another. We do not do this as lovers or friends and not as people who are interested in obtaining guidance from moral insight. In a legal context, we are cast as 'character masks' (Marx), for example, as 'buyer' and 'seller' or 'landlord' and ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, Volume 1

    Legal Positivism, Institutionalism and Globalisation

    Edited by Dr Christoph Bezemek, Professor Michael Potacs, Professor Dr Alexander Somek ...
    Series series Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy
    The first volume of the Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy illustrates the remarkable scope of contemporary legal philosophy. It introduces methodological questions rooted in national academic discourses, discusses the origin of legal systems, and contrasts constitutionalist and monist approaches to the rule of law with the institutionalist approach most prominently and vigorously defended by ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Cosmopolitan Constitution

    by Alexander Somek ...
    Series series Oxford Constitutional Theory
    Originally the constitution was expected to express and channel popular sovereignty. It was the work of freedom, springing from and facilitating collective self-determination. After the Second World War this perspective changed: the modern constitution owes its authority not only to collective authorship, it also must commit itself credibly to human rights. Thus people recede into the background, ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

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  • The Idea of the Public Sphere

    A Reader

    by Hannah Arendt, Seyla Benhabib, James Bohman, John Dewey, Jon Elster, Nancy Fraser, Jürgen Habermas, Immanuel Kant, Alexander Kluge, Walter Lippmann, Niklas Luhmann, Oskar Negt, Bernhard Peters, John Rawls, Carl Schmitt, Joseph Schumpeter, G.W.F Hegel, Chantal Mouffe ...
    The notion of "the public sphere" has become increasingly central to theories and studies of democracy, media, and culture over the last few decades. It has also gained political importance in the context of the European Union's efforts to strengthen democracy, integration, and identity.The Idea of the Public Sphere offers a wide-ranging, accessible, and easy-to-use introduction to one of the most ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Institutionalized Reason

    The Jurisprudence of Robert Alexy

    Edited by Matthias Klatt ...
    This volume gathers leading figures from legal philosophy and constitutional theory to offer a critical examination of the work of Robert Alexy. The contributions explore the issues surrounding the complex relations between rights, law, and morality and reflect on Alexy's distinctive work on these issues. The focus across the contributions is on Alexy's main pre-occupations - his anti-positivist ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • The Twilight of Constitutionalism?

    Edited by Petra Dobner, Martin Loughlin ...
    Series series Oxford Constitutional Theory
    The concepts and values that underpin traditional constitutionalism are increasingly being challenged by political realities that place substantial power beyond the state. Among the few certainties of a global economy is the growing incongruity between the political (the world of things that need to be ordered collectively in order to sustain society) and the state (the major institution of ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Between Facts and Norms

    Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy

    by Jürgen Habermas ...
    This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy. ... Read more

    $28.00 USD