Legality's borders : an essay in general jurisprudence /

Legality's borders : an essay in general jurisprudence /

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Author / Creator:Culver, Keith, 1969-
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.
Description:xxxii, 190 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Jurisprudence.
Law -- Philosophy.
Jurisprudence.
Law (Philosophical concept)
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7989927
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Other authors / contributors:Giudice, Michael.
ISBN:9780195370751 ((hardback) : alk. paper)
0195370759 ((hardback) : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Legal Officials, the Rule of Recognition and International Law
  • 1.1. Structure and Function of the Rule of Recognition
  • 1.2. Explaining Officials' Contribution to the Rule of Recognition: Facing Circularity and Indeterminacy
  • 1.2.1. Officials by Office and Attitude
  • 1.2.2. Speculative Social Anthropological Accounts
  • 1.3. Herarch in the Rule of Recognition
  • 1.4. The Rule of Recognition and International Law
  • 1.4.1. Not a System but a set
  • 1.4.2. International Rules of Change and Adjudication
  • 1.4.3. International Legal Officials?
  • 1.4.4. Kelsen's Account of International Law
  • Chapter 2. The Hierarchical View of Legal System and Non-State Legality
  • 2.1. Raz's Structural Account of Legality
  • 2.2. Functional Assessment of Raz's Account of legality
  • 2.2.1. Indeterminacy at the Borders
  • 2.2.2. Parochialism
  • 2.3. State-Centered Hierarchy
  • 2.4. Non-State Legality
  • 2.4.1. Hierarchy and the European Union
  • 2.4.2. Trans-State Legality Revisited
  • Chapter 3. Meta-Theorteical-Evaluative Motivations
  • 3.1. Perspective, Phenomena, Problems, and Method
  • 3.1.1. The Ordinary Person's Perspective and a Contingent Concept
  • 3.1.2. Bootstrapping in Analytical Legal Theory
  • 3.2. Recent Approaches to the Problem of Perspective
  • 3.2.1. System and Set
  • 3.2.2. Network Theory
  • 3.2.3. International Relations Theory
  • 3.3. Renewed Perspective
  • Chapter 4. An Inter Institutional Theory
  • 4.1. Elements of Legality
  • 4.1.1. Content-Independent Peremptory Reasons for Action
  • 4.1.2. Legal Normative Powers
  • 4.1.3. Institutions of Law
  • 4.1.4. Legal Institutions
  • 4.1.5. Mutual Reference and Intensity
  • 4.2. The Systemic Law-State
  • 4.2.1. Minimum Content of Natural Law
  • 4.2.2. Comprehensiveness, Supremacy, and Openness
  • 4.2.3. System
  • 4.3. The Narrative Concept of Law and the Problems of Circularity and Indeterminacy
  • Chapter 5. An Inter-Institutional Account of Non-State Legality
  • 5.1. Meta-Theory Revisited: Between Legal Pluralism and Geo-Centric Statism
  • 5.2. Meeting the Explanatory Challenge: Bringing Elements of Legality to Bear on Explanatory Problems Beyond the Systemic Law-State
  • 5.2.1. Inrra-State Legality
  • 5.2.2. Trans-State Legality
  • 5.2.3. Supra-State Legality
  • 5.2.4. Super-State Legality
  • Chapter 6. Fresh Problems
  • 6.1. Pathologies of Legality
  • 6.2. Novel Technologies and their Implications for Conceptions of Legality
  • 6.3. Re-balance after Imbalance: Consequences of Re-socializing a Descriptive-Explanatory View of Law
  • Index

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