On the nature of legal principles
Subtitle: 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
By: Martin Borowski (ed.).
Contributors: World Congress on Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (23rd : 2007 : Kraków, Poland)
Series: Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie -- 119; ARSP Beiheft Nr. 119; Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie -- n. F., Nr. 119
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stuttgart
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9783515096089; 9783832954987
Subjects: Methodology; Law (Philosophical concept); Congresses; Jurisprudence; Philosophy; Law; Proportionality in law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Two or three? / Robert Alexy; title: The structure of formal principles : Robert Alexy's 'law of combination' / Martin Borowski; title: Are rules exclusionary reasons in legal reasoning? / Peng-Hsiang Wang; title: The theory of principles : a framework for autonomous reasoning / Jan-Reinard Sieckmann; title: Principles, precedents and their interplay in legal argumentation : how to justify analogies between cases / Thomas Bustamante; title: Rules, principles, and defeasibility / Carsten Bäcker; title: Human dignity as an 'absolute principle'? / Nils Teifke; title: Tragic choice as a legal concept / Iris van Domselaar; title: The arbitrator conception of authority, law as integrity and normative positivism / Tamás Györfi; title: Rules, principles, and the problem of the limits of legal reasoning / Mátyás Bódig; title: Re-defining principles as 'important rules' :  critique of Robert Alexy / András Jakab; title: The principles of law, the test of coherence and political morality / Milena Korycka; title: A description of the content of law using general and particular legal principles / Jan Wintr.