Title: On the nature of legal principles : proceedings of the special workshop "The Principles Theory" held at the 23rd World congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR), Kraków, 2007 /
Authors: Borowski, Martin.; International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. 2007 :
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Law (Philosophical concept) Congresses.; Law Philosophy Congresses; Law Methodology Congresses; Jurisprudence Congresses; Proportionality in law Congresses.
Contents: Two or three? / Robert Alexy -- The structure of formal principles : Robert Alexy's 'law of combination' / Martin Borowski -- Are rules exclusionary reasons in legal reasoning? / Peng-Hsiang Wang -- The theory of principles : a framework for autonomous reasoning / Jan-Reinard Sieckmann -- Principles, precedents and their interplay in legal argumentation : how to justify analogies between cases / Thomas Bustamante -- Rules, principles, and defeasibility / Carsten Bäcker -- Human dignity as an 'absolute principle'? / Nils Teifke -- Tragic choice as a legal concept / Iris van Domselaar -- The arbitrator conception of authority, law as integrity and normative positivism / Tamás Györfi -- Rules, principles, and the problem of the limits of legal reasoning / Mátyás Bódig -- Re-defining principles as 'important rules' : a critique of Robert Alexy / András Jakab -- The principles of law, the test of coherence and political morality / Milena Korycka -- A description of the content of law using general and particular legal principles / Jan Wintr.