Legal Theory

Thomas Vesting

doi:10.17104/9783406779329

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Vesting

Legal Theory

Legal Theory intends to serve as a student’s book for the legal education in the area of the basic discipline ‘theory of law’. For this purpose it contributes to the recent fundamental jurisprudential debate, which more extensively than the traditional theory of law refers to the communicative and media prerequisites of law. In the first part, the fundamental problems and basic concepts of theory of law are discussed. The focus is laid on the theory of rules or norms, formation of systems in law as well as questions concerning the application of law. In the second part, the discussion of communication and media theoretical approaches presented in the introduction is given more prominence. It is illustrated, on the one hand, that the law is reliant on communication and communication media. On the other hand, under the concept of ‘evolution theory’, the history of development of law is addressed in a communication and media theoretical manner.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-3-406-71458-0
ISBN-Online: 978-3-406-77932-9
Publisher: C.H.BECK Recht - Wirtschaft - Steuern, München
Series: Beck International
Language: English
Pages: 196
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages I - X
1. 1. I. Early Legal Theory No access
  2. II. Early Legal Sociology No access
  3. III. Recent Developments No access
2. 1. I. Second-order Observation No access
  2. II. Theory as a Form of Life (Aristotle) No access
  3. III. On the Function of Legal Theory No access
3. 1. I. On Legal Doctrine No access
  2. II. Legal Philosophy No access
1. 1. I. Types and Concepts No access
  2. II. Conditional Scheme No access
  3. III. An Abstract Normative Understanding of Rules No access
2. 1. I. Kant’s Practical Philosophy No access
  2. II. Applying the Law No access
3. C. Recent Philosophy of Language (Linguistic Turn) No access
4. D. A Pragmatic Understanding of Rules No access
1. A. The Unity and Hierarchy of Law No access
2. 1. I. Philosophy of Nature No access
  2. II. Practical Philosophy No access
3. 1. I. On Juristic ‘Construction’ No access
  2. II. Completeness, Consistency, and the Positivity of Law No access
  3. III. Interim Results No access
  4. IV. Signs of Disintegration (Kelsen) No access
4. D. Printing as a Requisite Medium No access
1. A. Distinguishing between System and Environment No access
2. 1. I. Autopoiesis No access
  2. II. Time No access
  3. III. Functional Specification and Binary Coding No access
  4. IV. Self-reference and External Reference (re-entry) No access
3. 1. I. Network instead of Hierarchy No access
  2. II. The Paradox of the Beginning No access
4. D. Systems Theory and Computer Culture No access
1. 1. I. On the Traditional Theory of the Sources of Law No access
  2. II. The Problem of (State-sanctioned) Authority No access
2. 1. I. The Concept of Natural Law and its Historical Context No access
  2. II. Philosophy of Justice No access
  3. III. Moral Philosophy No access
3. 1. I. Positive Law No access
  2. II. Normative concept of validity and justification No access
  3. III. Validity as a Circulating Symbol No access
4. 1. I. Heterarchy of the Sources of Law No access
  2. II. Social Conventions and Practical Knowledge No access
1. 1. I. The Approach of Recent Methodology No access
  2. II. On Methods No access
2. 1. I. In Legal Positivism No access
  2. II. Philosophical Hermeneutics No access
  3. III. Legal Hermeneutics No access
3. C. The Paradox of Deciding No access
4. 1. I. De-paradoxing the Decision Paradox No access
  2. II. Legal Structures and Factual Structures No access
  3. III. The Significance of Common Knowledge No access
  4. IV. Moderating the Claims of Rationality No access
1. A. Legal History No access
2. B. Developmental History of Law (Weber) No access
3. 1. I. Evolutionary Theories and Systems Theory No access
  2. II. On the Autonomy of Law No access
4. 1. I. On the Link between Evolutionary Theory and Media Theory No access
  2. II. Primary Orality and the Use of Text No access
  3. III. Printing No access
  4. IV. Electronic Media and the Computer No access
Literature No access Pages 171 - 188
Index I No access Pages 189 - 194
Index II No access Pages 195 - 196