Institutionalized reason
Subtitle: the jurisprudence of Robert Alexy
By: edited by Matthias Klatt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780199582068
Subjects: Civil rights; Philosophy; Law
Notes: Based on a symposium held at New College, Oxford in September 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Robert Alexy's philosophy of law as system / Matthias Klatt; title: How law claims, what law claims / John Gardner; title: Defect and deviance in natural law jurisprudence / Mark C. Murphy; title: A 'justified normativity' thesis in Hans Kelsen's pure theory of law? : rejoinders to Robert Alexy and Joseph Raz / Stanley L. Paulson; title: Legal objectivity and the illusion of legal principles / Larry Alexander; title: Constitutional rights and the rule of law / T. R. S. Allan; title: Doctrine of balancing : its strengths and weaknesses / Matthias Jestaedt; title: Common law thinking in German jurisprudence : on Alexy's principles theory / Jan Henrik Klement; title: Alexy's theory of constitutional rights and the problem of judicial review / Mattias Kumm; title: Principles theory : how many theories and what is their merit? / Ralf Poscher; title: Constitutional rights and statutory limitations / Julian Rivers; title: Dual character of concepts and the discourse theory of law / Maeve Cooke; title: Correctness and legitimacy in the discourse theory of law / Cristina Lafont; title: Balancing, subsumption, and the constraining role of legal text / Frederick Schauer; title: Comments and responses / Robert Alexy.