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1 Legislative Debates in Parliament as a Source of Statutory Justification. A Framework for Analysis and Evaluation -- 2 Was It Really 'To No Avail'? The Legislative Deliberation on Underage Girls' Access to Abortion in Spain -- 3 Legislative Debates on Death with Dignity and Euthanasia. An Approach to the Spanish Situation -- 4 Debating on the Rights of Crime Victims: A Legisprudential Examination of the Parliamentary Deliberation on the Spanish Victim Protection Act -- 5 Expelling, Discussing, and Throwing Values Out – The Parliamentary Debate on the Citizen Security Act and the 'Push-backs' at the Moroccan-Spanish Borders -- 6 Parliamentary Debate as a Source of Justification for the Combat against Gender Violence Act -- 7 Parliamentary Debates on Joint Custody Legislation -- 8 Parliamentary Debates on Bullfighting in Spain: Animals Lost in Translation? -- 9 Minimum Vital Income: A Legislative Debate from the 'Participant-Observer' Perspective -- 10 Interpreting Fundamental Rights from the (Parliamentary) Bench. Notes on Constitutional Argumentation in Legislative Debates.

Part I. Ways and models of legislation -- 1 The language of laws in classic Athens -- 2 Misconceptions on legislative quality: an enlightened approach to the drafting of legislation -- 3 Rationality in criminal legislation: rational decision-making in a complex socio-legislative process- 4 Legislation, communication, and authority. How to account for the bindingness of law? -- 5 Legislation and nudging -- 6 Back to regulatory law - 7 Freedom and legislation -- Part II. Legislation in a culture of justification -- 8 Legislation as balancing -- 9 Proportionality, lawmaking, and constitutional democracy -- 10 Legislation and argumentation: a model for the analysis of legislative reasoning -- 11 Legislative deliberation and judicial review -- 12 Special-interest legislation and legislative capture -- Part III. Legisprudence, lawyers, and society -- 13 Legisprudence in legal education and research -- 14 On the legislative gap in the study of law -- 15 Taking legislation seriously: sociological, socio-legal, and social policy arguments

Part I. Ways and models of legislation -- 1 The language of laws in classic Athens -- 2 Misconceptions on legislative quality: an enlightened approach to the drafting of legislation -- 3 Rationality in criminal legislation: rational decision-making in a complex socio-legislative process- 4 Legislation, communication, and authority. How to account for the bindingness of law? -- 5 Legislation and nudging -- 6 Back to regulatory law - 7 Freedom and legislation -- Part II. Legislation in a culture of justification -- 8 Legislation as balancing -- 9 Proportionality, lawmaking, and constitutional democracy -- 10 Legislation and argumentation: a model for the analysis of legislative reasoning -- 11 Legislative deliberation and judicial review -- 12 Special-interest legislation and legislative capture -- Part III. Legisprudence, lawyers, and society -- 13 Legisprudence in legal education and research -- 14 On the legislative gap in the study of law -- 15 Taking legislation seriously: sociological, socio-legal, and social policy arguments

This paper addresses the connection between rational justification and effectiveness of laws under the light of a theory of parliamentary argumentation. Within this framework, here the focus is on how problems concerning legal effectiveness are dealt with and what relevance they may have in legislators' discourse. The paper firstly considers the role of effectiveness in legislative rationality and discusses to what extent argumentation during and after the making of statutes may contribute to their steering or regulatory function (in this respect, the symbolic dimension of norms comes to the fore). Upon this basis, a model is outlined to analyze arguments on effectiveness within parliamentary deliberation about laws. In the last section, I will tentatively apply it to the legislative debates on the Spanish same-sex marriage act. ; Este trabajo aborda la relación entre justificación racional y eficacia de las leyes desde el punto de vista de una teoría de la argumentación parlamentaria. Dentro de este marco me centraré en la cuestión de cómo son tratados y qué relevancia tienen en el discurso de los legisladores los problemas relativos a la eficacia social del Derecho. Intento primero clarificar cuál es el papel de la eficacia en la racionalidad legislativa, para discutir luego, a propósito de la dimensión simbólica de las normas, en qué medida la argumentación durante (y después de) la formación de la ley condiciona su capacidad regulativa. Sobre esta base planteo un modelo para analizar los argumentos de eficacia en la discusión parlamentaria de las leyes y, a modo de ejemplo, lo aplico a los debates sobre la modificación del código civil español en materia de matrimonio.

Este trabajo aborda la relación entre justificación racional y eficacia de las leyes desde el punto de vista de una teoría de la argumentación parlamentaria. Dentro de este marco me centraré en la cuestión de cómo son tratados y qué relevancia tienen en el discurso de los legisladores los problemas relativos a la eficacia social del Derecho. Intento primero clarificar cuál es el papel de la eficacia en la racionalidad legislativa, para discutir luego, a propósito de la dimensión simbólica de las normas, en qué medida la argumentación durante (y después de) la formación de la ley condiciona su capacidad regulativa. Sobre esta base planteo un modelo para analizar los argumentos de eficacia en la discusión parlamentaria de las leyes y, a modo de ejemplo, lo aplico a los debates sobre la modificación del código civil español en materia de matrimonio. ; This paper addresses the connection between rational justification and effectiveness of laws under the light of a theory of parliamentary argumentation. Within this framework, here the focus is on how problems concerning legal effectiveness are dealt with and what relevance they may have in legislators' discourse. The paper firstly considers the role of effectiveness in legislative rationality and discusses to what extent argumentation during and after the making of statutes may contribute to their steering or regulatory function (in this respect, the symbolic dimension of norms comes to the fore). Upon this basis, a model is outlined to analyze arguments on effectiveness within parliamentary deliberation about laws. In the last section, I will tentatively apply it to the legislative debates on the Spanish same-sex marriage act.

The essays collected in this book address legislation from the viewpoint of legal theory and provide an overview of current research in legisprudence as a new scholarly approach to lawmaking. The overall focus of the volume is on the justification of legislation, with a special emphasis on the intricate notion of legislative rationality. With the rational justification of legislation as their central theme, the essays elaborate on the foundations and bounds of legislation and the search for a more principled lawmaking, discuss the role of legislation within the framework of democratic constitutionalism, analyze legislation as implementation of constitutional law, and explore how legislative argumentation in parliament can be construed as a source of justification of laws.