Fundamentals of Legal Argumentation


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This book is an updated and revised edition of Fundamentals of Legal Argumentation published in 1999. It discusses new developments that have taken place in the past 15 years in research of legal argumentation, legal justification and legal interpretation, as well as the implications of these new developments for the theory of legal argumentation. Almost every chapter has been revised and updated, and the chapters include discussions of recent studies, major additions on topical issues, new perspectives, and new developments in several theoretical areas. Examples of these additions are discussions of recent developments in such areas as Habermas' theory, MacCormick's theory, Alexy's theory, Artificial Intelligence and law, and the pragma-dialectical theory of legal argumentation. Furthermore it provides an extensive and systematic overview of approaches and studies of legal argumentation in the context of legal justification in various legal systems and countries that have been important for the development of research of legal argumentation. The book contains a discussion of influential theories that conceive the law and legal justification as argumentative activity. From different disciplinary and theoretical angles it addresses such topics as the institutional characteristics of the law and the relation between general standards for moral discussions and legal standards such as the Rule of Law. It discusses patterns of legal justification in the context of different types of problems in the application of the law and it describes rules for rational legal discussions. The combination of the sound basis of the first edition and the discussions of new developments make this new edition an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the various theoretical influences which have informed the study of legal argumentation. It discusses salient backgrounds to this field as well as major approaches and trends in the contemporary research. It surveys the relevant theoretical factors both from various continental law traditions and common law countries.




Teoría de la argumentación jurídica


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Los jueces y juristas no hablan ni piensan como los otros ciudadanos. Lo que al ciudadano común le parece correcto o razonable no siempre es considerado legal por los jueces y juristas. Lo que es legal, por su parte, depende de lo que es dicho en una aparente infinidad de leyes y decisiones judiciales de difícil acceso. Estos aspectos de la práctica jurídica causan perplejidad entre los ciudadanos comunes y también entre los estudiantes de derecho. Este libro busca esclarecer lo que hay de peculiar, curioso y hasta incluso paradójico en la argumentación jurídica. Este libro, que fue escrito en un lenguaje accesible y libre de los excesos del formalismo académico, es indicado para los principiantes, los especialistas en derecho y los estudiosos de la argumentación jurídica. Los especialistas encontrarán aquí un análisis poco común (y posiblemente controversial) de temas tradicionales como interpretación jurídica, precedentes judiciales, analogías, principios generales del derecho y raciocinio probatorio.




'Rule of Reason': Ensayos Teóricos sobre Racionalidad y Razonabilidad en el Derecho Público


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Investigating the principle of reasona-bleness in the legal world requires—if the task is to be taken seriously—to take a journey directly to the roots of the concept of law and to the ultimate paradigms that inform its knowledge, just to find the beginning of a different and maybe harder path, heading to the idea of reason. The essays presented in this book do not aim to complete such journeys, but just to take some modest steps into them. Many con-cepts are thereby found, many more are left to be investigated. Meanwhile, between rationality and reasonableness, theory and practice, science and prudence, episteme and phronesis, a global need emerges: that to keep addressing the core of the ‘Rule of Reason’ in the law.




The Law in Philosophical Perspectives


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In this age of collections that is ours, many volumes of collections are published. They contain contributions of several well-known authors, and their aim is to present a selective overview of a relevant field of study. This book has the same purpose. Its aim is to introduce students, scholars and all those interested in current problems of legal theory and legal philosophy to the work of the leading scholars in this field. The large number of publications, both books and articles, that have been produced over recent decades makes it quite difficult, however, for those who are making their first steps in this domain to find firm guidelines. The book is new in its genre because of its method. The choice was made not to reprint an example of contributors' earlier basic articles or a part of one of their books. This would only give a partial view of the rich texture of their work. Rather, the authors were asked to make an original synthesis of their own contributions to the field of legal theory and legal philosophy. Brought together in this volume, they constitute a truly author-ised view of their work. This book is also new in that each essay is complemented with bibliographical information in order to encourage further research on the author's self-selected work. This will help the reader rapidly to become familiar with the whole of the published work of the contributors.




The Theory and Practice of Legislation


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This work provides a rational framework for legislation. The unifying premise behind the essays is that, although legislation and regulation are the result of a political process, legislation and regulation can be the object of theoretical study. The volume focuses on problems that are common to most European legal systems and the approach involves applying to legislative problems the tools of legal theory - hence 'legisprudence'. Whereas traditional legal theory deals predominantly with the application of law by the judge, legisprudence enlarges the field of study so as to include the creation of law by the legislator. The original essays published in this collection expose and develop a range of new insights into the relationship between legislative problems and legal theory in a way which will engage and interest legal scholars throughout the world.




Reasons for Action and the Law


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A focus on reasons for action and practical reason is the perspective chosen by many contemporary legal philosophers for the analysis of some central questions of their discipline. This book offers a critical evaluation of that approach, by carefully examining the empirical, logical and normative problems hidden behind the concepts of `reason for action' and `practical reasoning'. Unlike most other works in this field, it is a meta-theoretical study which analyses and compares how different theories use the notion of reason in their reconstruction of problems concerning issues such as normativity, the acceptance of norms, or the justification of judicial decisions. This book is directed primarily to scholars specializing in legal theory and concerned with the contribution practical philosophy can make to it, but it also contains important arguments and insights for all those interested in the controversy between legal positivists and their critics, in the theory of human action or in reason-based practical theories in general.




The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics


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The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics is the first volume to offer a comprehensive overview of advances in Spanish Pragmatics, addressing different types of interaction and the variables, both social and linguistic, that can affect them. Written by a diverse set of experts in the field, the handbook unifies two major approaches to the study of pragmatics, the Anglo-American and European Continental traditions. Thirty-three chapters cover in detail both pragmatic foundations (e.g. speech act theory, implicature and relevance, deixis) and interfaces with other concepts, including: • Discourse • Variation; Culture and interculture • (Im)politeness; humor • Learning contexts and teaching • Technology This is an ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers of Spanish language and linguistics.




Legal system and practical reason


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Aus dem Inhalt: A. Aarnio: One Right Answer and the Majority Principle - H. Aoi: Fikentschers Theorie der Fallnorm - J. A. G. Amado: Justicia, Democracia y Validez del Derecho en J. Habermas - O. Ballweg: Phronesis versus Practical Philosophy - J. Bengoetxea: Legal System as a Regulative Ideal - N. Brieskorn: Die Kantische Maxime und die richterliche Rechtsanwendung - D. Buchwald: Rational Legal Justification - E. Bulygin: On Legal Interpretation - N. MacCormick and J. Wroblewski: On Justification and Interpretation - U. Dopfer: Ontologie der sozialen Rolle als Grundlage strafrechtlicher Entscheidungen - V. Frosini: Prolegomena zur Auslegung des Rechts - A. Gangel: Rechtsprechung, Rechtsanwendung und Vernunftsgebrauch - M. P. Golding: Substantive Interpretation in Common Law Elaboration - M. van Hoecke: The Use of Unwritten Legal Principles by Courts - H.-R. Horn: Are there Several Theories of Legal Argumentation? - R. Kevelson: The Confusion of Language in Legal Thought - F. Lachmayer: Visualisierung in der Rechtswissenschaft - P. J. van Niekerk: The Relevance of the Distinction between Legal Principles and Legal Rules - M. Pavcnik: "Rechtsanwendung" oder normative Konkretisierung des Gesetzes? - A. Peczenik: Why shall Legal Reasoning be Coherent? - K. Pleszka: Empirisches Wissen als Grundlage der teleologischen Interpretation - u.a.




Legal Argumentation Theory: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives


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This book offers its readers an overview of recent developments in the theory of legal argumentation written by representatives from various disciplines, including argumentation theory, philosophy of law, logic and artificial intelligence. It presents an overview of contributions representative of different academic and legal cultures, and different continents and countries. The book contains contributions on strategic maneuvering, argumentum ad absurdum, argumentum ad hominem, consequentialist argumentation, weighing and balancing, the relation between legal argumentation and truth, the distinction between the context of discovery and context of justification, and the role of constitutive and regulative rules in legal argumentation. It is based on a selection of papers that were presented in the special workshop on Legal Argumentation organized at the 25th IVR World Congress for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy held 15-20 August 2011 in Frankfurt, Germany.




Kelsenian Legal Science and the Nature of Law


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This book critically examines the conception of legal science and the nature of law developed by Hans Kelsen. It provides a single, dedicated space for a range of established European scholars to engage with the influential work of this Austrian jurist, legal philosopher, and political philosopher. The introduction provides a thematization of the Kelsenian notion of law as a legal science. Divided into six parts, the chapter contributions feature distinct levels of analysis. Overall, the structure of the book provides a sustained reflection upon central aspects of Kelsenian legal science and the nature of law. Parts one and two examine the validity of the project of Kelsenian legal science with particular reference to the social fact thesis, the notion of a science of positive law and the specifically Kelsenian concept of the basic norm (Grundnorm). The next three parts engage in a critical analysis of the relationship of Kelsenian legal science to constitutionalism, practical reason, and human rights. The last part involves an examination of the continued pertinence of Kelsenian legal science as a theory of the nature of law with a particular focus upon contemporary non-positivist theories of law. The conclusion discusses the increasing distance of contemporary theories of legal positivism from a Kelsenian notion of legal science in its consideration of the nature of law.