Applied Philosophy of Law – Orientation in a Nervous World?

Prof. Dr. Eckardt Buchholz-Schuster; Prof. Dr. Daniel Herbe

doi:10.5771/9783748955511

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Applied legal philosophy in the advancing 21st century. Authors from different continents explore whether, how, and for whom legal-philosophical thinking can have an impact in light of the diverse and sometimes alarming developments and challenges facing today’s world. Their contributions include application-oriented analyses, concepts of decision-making and legitimation, as well as legal-ethical guidance and positioning in response to current international problems. They also reflect on the prospective role of legal philosophy in a globalized world and its relationship to society, politics, and international law.
With contributions by Prof. Dr. Eckardt Buchholz-Schuster | Dr. Adela Gąsiorowska | Prof. Dr. Daniel Herbe | Prof. Heidi M. Hurd | Dr. Hyungjoon Jun | Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Kirste | Dr. Hyun Jung Lee | Prof. Win-Chiat Lee | Prof. John Murungi | Dr. Oche Onazi | Dr. Jordan Pascoe | Prof. Dr. Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco | Prof. Juan Pablo Sterling Casas | Full Professor el Philosohy of Law. Prof. Dra. Leonor Suárez -Llanos | Dr. Derk Venema

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Copyright year: 2026
ISBN-Print: 978-3-7560-2014-0
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7489-5551-1
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Language: English
Pages: 392
Product type: Edited Book

1. Foreword No access
2. Introduction by the Editors No access
1. Oche Onazi
  1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. 2. Globalisation, Global Justice and Disability Justice No access
  3. 1. 3.1. An African Legal Philosophy of Disability Justice No access
    2. 3.2. The Application: The Primacy of Obligations No access
    3. 3.3. A Global Hypothecated Disability Tax Fund No access
  4. 4. Conclusion No access
2. Leonor Suárez Llanos
  1. 1. Introduction: the problems of cryptology applied to law. No access
  2. 1. 2.1. From Myth to Rational Logos. No access
    2. 2.2. From Logos to Positivist Fiction. No access
  3. 1. 3.1. The fiction of the subject of law. No access
    2. 3.2. The fiction of the object of law: validity, legitimacy and force. No access
    3. 3.3. The “fiction” of legal knowledge. No access
    4. 3.4. Six dangerous fictions of the “legal imagination”. No access
    5. 3.5. And what remains is “law without truth”. No access
  4. 1. 4.1. Critical coherence and “retrointegration of validity”. No access
    2. 4.2. The proposal for “coherent legal activation”. No access
  5. 5. Conclusions. No access
3. Eckardt Buchholz-Schuster
  1. Introduction No access
  2. 1. 1. Preliminary consideration: Manifestations of the ‘Great Regression’ No access
    2. 2. Applied philosophy of law: In search of a self-conception of legal philosophy with a social and political relevance to the present No access
  3. 1. 1. 1.1 Extreme injustice through state and supranational omission, e.g. in relation to climate change and the humanitarian challenges of migration No access
      2. 1.2 Civil disobedience, legitimacy and defense of the democratic constitutional state No access
      3. 1.3 Legitimation and defense of international law No access
    2. 1. 2.1 Theory formation on legal-ethical decision-making and argumentation No access
    3. 2.2 Empirical examination of positions relevant to legal ethics and legal policy as well as constitutional and international law principles No access
  4. III. On the future strengthening of the social and political relevance of applied legal philosophy No access
  5. IV. Conclusion No access
1. Adela Gasiorowska
  1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. 1. 2.1. Types of LAs’ responses in migration policies No access
    2. 2.2. Drivers of LAs responses No access
  3. 1. 3.1. Principle of legality as the element of the legal state No access
    2. 3.2. Principle of legality - key assumptions No access
    3. 3.3. Scope of LAs’ discretion in the light of principle of legality No access
  4. 1. 4.1. Extreme injustice in Radbruch Formula No access
    2. 4.2. Extreme injustice by omission No access
  5. 1. 5.1. Civil disobedience No access
    2. 5.2. Judicial disobedience No access
  6. 1. 6.1. Legitimacy of LAs to overstep their competences No access
    2. 6.2. Obligation to exceed competence No access
  7. 7. Conclusion No access
  8. 8. References No access
2. Thinking about Law and its Rule at our Time No access Pages 137 - 156 John Murungi
1. Hyungjoon Jun
  1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. 1. 2.1. The Original Position and the Impartial Spectator No access
    2. 2.2. Intercultural Legitimacy, Discursive Recognition, and Material Redistribution No access
  3. 1. 3.1. Fraser’s Theory of Recognition and Participatory Parity No access
    2. 3.2. Discourse Ethics and the Moral Basis of Parity No access
    3. 3.3. Recognition, Identity, and Democratic Law No access
    4. 3.4. Law, Democracy, and Participatory Parity No access
  4. 4. Conclusion No access
2. Hyun Jung Lee
  1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. 1. 2.1. Intersectionality: Challenge to Single-Axis Legal Frameworks No access
    2. 2.2. The Social Construction of Age: Legal Doctrines and Structural Implications No access
  3. 1. 3.1. The Gradual Recognition of Age as a Protected Ground No access
    2. 3.2. The Margin of Appreciation and Age Discrimination in Socioeconomic Contexts No access
    3. 3.3. Hierarchies of Protection in ECtHR Jurisprudence No access
  4. 1. 4.1. Doctrinal Challenges in Recognizing Compound Disadvantage No access
    2. 4.2. Methodological Challenges: The Limits of Comparator Analysis and Evidentiary Gaps No access
    3. 4.3. Remedial Challenges: Learning from Comparative Jurisprudence No access
  5. 5. Conclusion No access
3. Daniel Herbe
  1. I. Introduction No access
  2. 1. 1. Emergence and Foundations No access
    2. 2. Concretization through the Social Code (SGB) No access
    3. 3. Structure and the Social-Law Relationship No access
    4. 1. 1. Legal Philosophy and Social Law No access
      2. 2. The Social-State Constitution No access
      3. 3. The Concept/Idea of Human Dignity No access
      4. 4. Social Justice and Social Security No access
      5. 5. Social Law as Theory/Social Rights No access
      6. 6. The Social Obligation of Property No access
      7. 7. Subsidiarity, Personal Responsibility, and Solidarity No access
  3. III. Conclusion and Implications for Social Law de lege ferenda No access
1. Heidi M. Hurd
  1. Introduction No access
  2. I. Four Concepts of Sustainability No access
  3. II. Do Nonhuman Entities Have Welfare That Should Count in Calculations of What is Weakly Sustainable? No access
  4. III. Can Nonhuman Entities Be Said to Possess Rights That Make Actions that Do Not Sustain Them Wrongful? No access
  5. IV. Can Nonhuman Entities Be Said to Be Objects of Our Virtue? No access
  6. Conclusion No access
2. Jordan Pascoe
  1. 1. A.I. as invasive species: An Ecological Approach No access
  2. 2. Regulatory Strategies: On Risk and Responsibility No access
  3. 3. Regulating at Speed: On Crisis Epistemology and Relational Alternatives No access
1. Win-chiat Lee
  1. I. Introduction No access
  2. II. Universal Jurisdiction No access
  3. III. ICL and Natural Justice No access
  4. IV. The Perils of Exercising Universal Jurisdiction without a World State No access
  5. V. Why Not World-State and What Can Be Done for ICL in Its Place No access
  6. VI. Conclusion No access
2. Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco
  1. §1. Introduction No access
  2. §2. Understanding human action: the Medusa of Coercion No access
  3. §3. The Rule of Law and the Thick Conception of the Transnational Rule of Law No access
  4. 1. A.- The conception adumbrated in this paper contradicts the quintessential nature of the Rule of Law, i.e. the pursuit of different ends and values. No access
    2. B.- The redundancy of publicity No access
    3. C.- The Transnational Rule of Law is too vague to guide behaviour No access
    4. D.- The thick conception of the Transnational Rule of Law undermines the plurality of goods across pluralistic societies No access
  5. §5. Conclusion No access
1. Juan Pablo Sterling Casas
  1. 1. Introduction: Short Review of the Communicational Theory of Law No access
  2. 1. 2.1 The concept of the legal text in CTL No access
    2. 2.2 Legal text as writerly text (Barthes) No access
    3. 2.3 Legal text as hypertext (Lotman and Landow) No access
    4. 2.4 Legal text and grammar of power (Deleuze and Guattari) No access
  3. 1. 3.1 A new approach: the relation between hermeneutics and analytics No access
    2. 3.2 Law as a hermeneutic practice No access
  4. 1. 4.1 The relation between law and literature: the role of solidarity. No access
    2. 4.2 Narratology, sensibility and law teaching. No access
  5. 5. Conclusion No access
2. Derk Venema
  1. 1. Introduction: professional ethics training for judges No access
  2. 2. The limitations of moral theories No access
  3. 3. Ethical “rightness” as pragmatic outcome No access
  4. 4. Rule of law and democracy No access
  5. 5. Combination with other disciplines: Literature and history No access
  6. 6. Conclusion: Open minds, closed ranks No access
List of Authors No access Pages 391 - 392