Suchergebnisse

Is legal science a real science? -- American realism -- Rationalism, empiricism, and logical positivism: a methodological journey through a permanent reversal of doubt and certainty -- Popper's Critique of essentialism and the scientific outlook -- Three types of legal interpretation.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgment of sources; 1. Legality and legitimacy in natural law and legal positivism; Five characteristics of natural law; Plato; Teleology; Man as a rational being; Metaphysical principles; Universal validity; A touchstone; Objections; Sein and Sollen; Leerformeln; Feelings; Evaluation of the objections; Lon Fuller; Natural law, a form of morality?; Judge and conductor; Ubi societas, ibi ius; Again: empty formulas?; Alternative natural law; Perelman and Hayek; Hayek on spontaneous order

Preambles : a stocktaking -- The content of preambles -- The language of preambles -- The functions of preambles -- Two prototypes : the US and France -- Preambles from other states -- By way of conclusion : the mystery and end of preambles