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
Description: This volume brings together leading figures from Anglo-American and German legal philosophy and constitutional theory to examine themes from the influential work of Robert Alexy. The topics covered include the nature of law and legal reasoning, and the nature of constitutional rights.
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.