Questioning Sovereignty
Subtitle: Law, State. and Nation in the European Commonwealth (Law, State, and Practical Reason)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: November 25, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780198268765
First sentence: The great jurist Hans Kelsen, who spent much of his life trying to clarify the concept 'norm', and the 'ought' that is the verbal sign of normative utterances, once remarked, almost despairingly, that the 'world of the ought' is a 'great mystery'.
Description: This is a controversial work of applied legal theory, addressing urgent contemporary questions about law and the state, about the character of the UK as a state, and about the juridical character of the European Union.