Law's Ideal Dimension

Robert Alexy, Professor of Public Law and Legal Philosophy at Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany.Robert Alexy has been Professor of Public Law and Legal Philosophy at Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, since 1986. He was President of the German Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) from 1994 to 1998. Alexy's other titles published by OUP include A Theory of Legal Argumentation, The Argument from Injustice, and A Theory of Constitutional Rights.

• Part I: The Nature of Law 1: The Nature of Legal Philosophy 2: On the Concept and the Nature of Law 3: The Dual Nature of Law 4: Law, Morality, and the Existence of Human Rights 5: An Answer to Joseph Raz 6: The Ideal Dimension of Law 7: Gustav Radbruch's Concept of Law Part II: Constitutional Rights, Human Rights, and Proportionality 8: The Construction of Constitutional Rights 9: Balancing, Constitutional Review, and Representation 10: The Existence of Human Rights 11: The Weight Formula 12: Formal Principles: Some Replies to Critics 13: Ideal 'Ought' and Optimization 14: Human Dignity and Proportionality 15: Proportionality and Rationality 16: The Absolute and the Relative Dimension of Constitutional Rights Part III: Argumentation, Correctness, and Law 17: A Discourse-Theoretical Conception of Practical Reason 18: Problems of Discourse Theory 19: Legal Argumentation as Rational Discourse 20: Jürgen Habermas's Theory of the Indeterminacy of Law and the Rationality of Adjudication 21: Law and Correctness