Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, Volume 2
Subtitle: Normativism and Anti-Normativism in Law
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781509935901
Description: 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.