Sanctions: An Essential Element of Law?

The volume is dedicated to the concept of sanctions and to the reassessment of its interrelation with the concept of law. It does not seem that long ago that law and sanctions were thought of as necessarily interrelated. Every Law is a command , we read in Austin s Province of Jurisprudence Determined ; a particular command, however, in that the party to whom it is directed is liable to evil from the other, in case he [does not] comply . And [t]he evil which will probably be incurred in case a command be disobeyed [ ] is frequently called a sanction . H. L. A. Hart s critique of Austin s command theory of law successfully drove a wedge into the interrelation of law and sanctions ; so successful, in fact, that it caused some scholars to part with the idea of force underlying the concept of law altogether and others to emphatically protest what they perceived as a rash move to discard one of the core elements of law. The debate still is on.

Sommario

Introduction.- The Law Sanctions Revisiting an Apparently Auto-Antonymous Concept.- On Coercion and the (Functions of) Law.- Sanctions as an Essential Element in the Legal System, and Kelsen s Concept of Sanction and Coercion.- Normativity of Sanctions.- Justice and Force.- A multidimensional view on sanctions.- "Force, Coercion, and the Law: A Philosophical Framework".- Practical Authority as Telling People What to Do.- Law Beyond Coercion? Positive Sanctions: Normative and Expressive Functions to Guide Behaviour.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Nicoletta Bersier (Editore), Christoph Bezemek (Editore), Frederick Schauer (Editore)
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Lingue: Inglese, Tedesco
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 14.06.2025
• EAN: 9783031885112
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3188511-2
• Pagine: 175
• Illustrazioni: XI, 175 p.
• Serie: Law and Philosophy Library
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Force, Positivism, Natural Law, EVIL, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, concept of law, sanctions, coercion, nature of law, Planning theory of law, Necessary elements of law