Juristic Concept of the Validity of Statutory Law - A Critique of Contemporary Legal Nonpositivism

This book presents the theory of the validity of legal norms, aimed at the practice of law, in particular the jurisdiction of the constitutional courts. The postpositivist concept of the validity of statutory law, grounded on a critical analysis of the basic theories of legal validity elaborated up to now, is introduced. In the first part of the book a contemporary German nonpositivist conception of law developed by Ralf Dreier and Robert Alexy is analysed in order to answer the question whether the juristic concept of legal validity should include moral standards or criteria. In the second part, a postpositivist concept of legal validity and an innovative model of validity discourse, based on the juristic presumption of the validity of legal norms, are proposed. The book is a work on analytical legal theory, written from a postpositivist, detached point of view.

List of contents

Part I: Critique of the Nonpositivist Conception of Law.- Part II: Clarification of the Juristic Concept of the Validity of Statutory Law.

Summary

This book presents the theory of the validity of legal norms, aimed at the practice of law, in particular the jurisdiction of the constitutional courts. The postpositivist concept of the validity of statutory law, grounded on a critical analysis of the basic theories of legal validity elaborated up to now, is introduced. In the first part of the book a contemporary German nonpositivist conception of law developed by Ralf Dreier and Robert Alexy is analysed in order to answer the question whether the juristic concept of legal validity should include moral standards or criteria. In the second part, a postpositivist concept of legal validity and an innovative model of validity discourse, based on the juristic presumption of the validity of legal norms, are proposed. The book is a work on analytical legal theory, written from a postpositivist, detached point of view.

Product details

• Authors: Andrzej Grabowski
• Assisted by: Malgorzata Kieltyka (Translation)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783642441929
• ISBN: 978-3-642-44192-9
• No. of pages: 595
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 914 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 595 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; B, Philosophy of Language, Law, Political Science, Law and Criminology, Fundamentals of Law, Jurisprudence & general issues, Law—Philosophy, Methods, theory & philosophy of law, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Philosophy of Law, Language and languages—Philosophy, Constitutional Law, Constitutional & administrative law: general