Habermas and Law

Hugh Baxter is Professor of Law and Philosophy at Boston University, USA

• Table of Contents for Habermas and LawHugh Baxter1. The Emergence and Development of Law as a Central Theme in Habermas’s Thought1. William Scheuerman, "Capitalism, Law, and Social Criticism," Constellations 20:571-86 (2013) (16 pp.)2. Grounding of Basic Rights2. Robert Alexy, "Basic Rights and Democracy in Jürgen Habermas’s Procedural Paradigm of the Law," Ratio Juris 7:227-38 (1994) (12 pp.)3. Jørgen Pedersen, "Justification and Application: The Revival of the Rawls-Habermas Debate," Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 42:399-432 (2012) (34 pp.)3. Democratic Deliberation4. Amy Allen, "The Unforced Force of the Better Argument: Reason and Power in Habermas’ Political Theory," 19 Constellations 353 (2012) (16 pp.)5. Stephen K. White and Evan Robert Farr, "No-Saying in Habermas," 40 Political Theory 32-57 (2011) (26 pp.)6. Daniel Munro, "Norms, Motives, and Radical Democracy: Habermas and the Problem of Motivation," Journal of Political Philosophy, 15:447-72 (2007) (26 pp.)4. Constitutions and Judicial Review7. Frank Michelman, "Morality, Identity, and Constitutional Patriotism," Ratio Juris 14:253-71 (2001) (18 pp.)8. Ciaran Cronin, "On the Possibility of a Democratic Constitutional Founding: Habermas and Michelman in Dialogue," Ratio Juris 19:343-69 (2006) (27 pp.)9. Todd Hedrick, "Coping with Constitutional Indeterminacy," Philosophy and Social Criticism 36:183-208 (2010) (26 pp.)10. Kevin Olson, "Paradoxes of Constitutional Democracy," 51 American Journal of Political Science 51:330-43 (2007) (14 pp.)11. Robert Alexy, "Constitutional Rights, Balancing, and Rationality," Ratio Juris 16:131-40 (2003) (10 pp.)5. Religion and the Public Sphere12. Cristina Lafont, "Religion in the Public Sphere: Remarks on Habermas' Conception of Public Deliberation in Post-secular Societies," Constellations 14:239-259 (2007)13. James W. Boettcher, "Habermas, Religion, and the Ethics of Citizenship," Philosophy and Social Criticism 35:215-38 (2009) (24 pp).14. Badredine Arfi, "Habermas and the Aporia of Translating Religion in Democracy," European Journal of Social Theory 18:__-___ (forthcoming) (2015) [pre-print publication online 12-11-14] (18 pages)6. Globalization and democracy beyond the nation-state15. Justine Lacroix, "Does Europe Need Common Values? Habermas vs. Habermas," European Journal of Political Theory 8:141 (2009) (16 pp.)16. Matthias Kumm, Why Europeans Will Not Embrace Constitutional Patriotism, International Journal of Constitutional Law, 6:117–136 (2008) (20 pp.)17. Nancy Fraser, Transnationalizing the Public Sphere: On the Legitimacy and Efficacy of Public Opinion in a Post-Westphalian World, Theory, Culture, and Society 24:7-30 (2007) (24 pp.)18. Adam Lupel, "Tasks of a Global Civil Society: Held, Habermas, and Democratic Legitimacy beyond the Nation-State," Globalizations 2:117–133 (2005) (17 pp.)19. Pauline Johnson, Globalizing Democracy, "Reflections on Habermas’s Radicalism," 17 European Journal of Social Theory 11:71-86 (2008) (16 pp.) 20. Jonathan Trejo-Mathys, Towards a Discourse-Theoretical Account of Authority and Obligation in the Postnational Constellation, Philosophy and Social Criticism 38:537 (2012) (32 pp.)