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Informationen zum Autor Christoph Bezemek is Professor of Law at the University of Graz, Austria. Michael Potacs is Professor of Law at the Instutute of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna, Austria. Alexander Somek is Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria. Vorwort The second volume in the Hart series Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy , featuring world-leading philosophers writing on a range of current topics. This volume provides a better understanding of the much-discussed, yet still somewhat obscure, concept of legal normativity. Zusammenfassung 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 accept arrangements and understandings to sustain peaceful cooperation?If law is the former its significance and meaning are independent of a shifting constellation of forces; if it is not, then what the law says depends on the relative power and prestige of the actors involved. With contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field, the collection presents a balanced and nuanced assessment of what is perhaps the most controversial debate in contemporary legal philosophy today. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Normality of Normativity Ino Augsberg2. On the Significance of Virtues in Morality and Law Peter Koller3. The Basic Norm Stanley L Paulson4. Normativity at Large: On Moral Absolutism, Legal Relativism and Social Systems Anti-Normativism Jirí Pribán5. Legal Realism and Legal Reasoning: A Quasi-Realist Approach Torben Spaak6. On the Boundaries of Normativity in Law Aditi Bagchi7. Can We Escape Normativism in Law? Michael Potacs8. Real Constitutional Law: A Revised Madisonian Perspective Alexander Somek9. The Concept of Law Revisited: An Essay in Descriptive Psychology Anne van Aaken10. The Foundations of Legal Empirical Studies of European Union Law: A Starter Kit Urška Šadl and Jakob V H Holtermann11. Preserving us from Regulatory Power? Legal Normativity and the Possibility of Agency Sylvie Delacroix...
