Stanley L. Paulson – författare

Eugenio Bulygin is a distinguished representative of legal science and legal philosophy as they are known on the European continent - no accident, given the role of the civil law tradition in his home country, Argentina. Over the past half-century, Bulygin has engaged virtually all major legal philosophers in the English-speaking countries, including H.L.A. Hart, Ronald Dworkin, and Joseph Raz. Bulygin''s essays, several written together with his eminent colleague and close friend Carlos E. Alchourrón, reflect the genre familiar from Alf Ross''s On Law and Justice, Hans Kelsen''s Pure Theory of Law, and Georg Henrik von Wright''s Norm and Action. Bulygin''s wide-ranging interests include most of the topics found under the rubric of analytical jurisprudence - interpretation and judicial reasoning, validity and efficacy of law, legal positivism and the problem of normativity, completeness and consistency of the legal system, the nature of legal norms, and the role of deontic logic in the law. The reader will take delight in the often agreeably unorthodox character of Bulygin''s views and in his hard-hitting arguments in defence of them. He challenges the received opinion on gaps in the law, on legal efficacy, on permissory norms, and on the criteria for legal validity. Bulygin''s essays have been wellnigh inaccessible in the past, appearing in specialized journals, often in Spanish or German. They are now available for the first time in an English-language collection.

Eugenio Bulygin is a distinguished representative of legal science and legal philosophy as they are known on the European continent - no accident, given the role of the civil law tradition in his home country, Argentina. Over the past half-century, Bulygin has engaged virtually all major legal philosophers in the English-speaking countries, including H.L.A. Hart, Ronald Dworkin, and Joseph Raz. Bulygin''s essays, several written together with his eminent colleague and close friend Carlos E. Alchourrón, reflect the genre familiar from Alf Ross''s On Law and Justice, Hans Kelsen''s Pure Theory of Law, and Georg Henrik von Wright''s Norm and Action. Bulygin''s wide-ranging interests include most of the topics found under the rubric of analytical jurisprudence - interpretation and judicial reasoning, validity and efficacy of law, legal positivism and the problem of normativity, completeness and consistency of the legal system, the nature of legal norms, and the role of deontic logic in the law. The reader will take delight in the often agreeably unorthodox character of Bulygin''s views and in his hard-hitting arguments in defence of them. He challenges the received opinion on gaps in the law, on legal efficacy, on permissory norms, and on the criteria for legal validity. Bulygin''s essays have been wellnigh inaccessible in the past, appearing in specialized journals, often in Spanish or German. They are now available for the first time in an English-language collection.

Eugenio Bulygin is a distinguished representative of legal science and legal philosophy as they are known on the European continent - no accident, given the role of the civil law tradition in his home country, Argentina. Over the past half-century, Bulygin has engaged virtually all major legal philosophers in the English-speaking countries, including H.L.A. Hart, Ronald Dworkin, and Joseph Raz. Bulygin's essays, several written together with his eminent colleague and close friend Carlos E. Alchourrón, reflect the genre familiar from Alf Ross's On Law and Justice, Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law, and Georg Henrik von Wright's Norm and Action. Bulygin's wide-ranging interests include most of the topics found under the rubric of analytical jurisprudence - interpretation and judicial reasoning, validity and efficacy of law, legal positivism and the problem of normativity, completeness and consistency of the legal system, the nature of legal norms, and the role of deontic logic in the law. The reader will take delight in the often agreeably unorthodox character of Bulygin's views and in his hard-hitting arguments in defence of them. He challenges the received opinion on gaps in the law, on legal efficacy, on permissory norms, and on the criteria for legal validity. Bulygin's essays have been wellnigh inaccessible in the past, appearing in specialized journals, often in Spanish or German. They are now available for the first time in an English-language collection.

This remarkable collection contains some of the very best work on themes developed by Hans Kelsen, regarded by many as the most influential legal philosopher of the twentieth century. The volume addresses in rich detail the topic where debate on Kelsen's work has been liveliest: 'normativity' as Kelsen's alternative to both traditional legal positivism and natural law theory.The book boasts a truly international list of contributors, with authors from Europe, North and South America, and Australia - a dozen countries in all.

The volume brings together a collection of original papers on some of the main tenets of Joseph Raz's legal and political philosophy: Legal positivism and the nature of law, practical reason, authority, the value of equality, incommensurability, harm, group rights, and multiculturalism. James Griffin and Yael Tamir raise questions concerning Raz's notion of group rights and its application to claims of cultural and political autonomy, while Will Kymlicka and Bernhard Peters examine Raz's theory of multicultural society. Lukas Meyer investigates the applicability of the notion of harm in the intergenerational context. Other papers are devoted to fundamental theoretical tenets of Raz's work. Hillel Steiner and Andrei Marmor examine Raz's account of value pluralism and incommensurability in light of what these authors consider to be goods whose equal distribution must be valued for its own sake. Robert Alexy and Timothy Endicott discuss traditional issues of jurisprudence and legal philosphy with special attention to Raz's contribution. Rüdiger Bittner, Bruno Celano, and J. E. Penner discuss and criticize aspects of Raz's theory of practical reason. Jeremy Waldron presents a critique of Raz's interpretation of authority.This volume concludes with a chapter by Joseph Raz in which he responds to arguments in the foregoing essays.

Over the years Robert Alexy has developed a systemic approach to legal theory, an approach whose dimensions include discourse theory, principles theory, and a non-positivist conception of law. Principles theory is found at the very core of Alexy's system. Constitutional rights, he argues, are best understood as principles, and collisions between constitutional rights - understood now as competing principles - are resolved by balancing their respective weights. Critical examinations of Alexy's work on principles theory and on the other dimensions of his system are presented here, along with a contribution on human rights, one of Alexy's more recent foci. Alexy's work is receiving ever greater attention, both at home, in Germany, and abroad, with translations of his treatises and papers into many languages. The authors of the contributions aim to promote enquiry into Alexy's project. While their general approach is that of analytical jurisprudence, the individual contributions reflect great variety in their respective assessments of Alexy's seminal work.

Estudio de la fundamentación Kelseniana, en la cual Paulson trata la periodización en las etapas filosóficas de Kelsen, las relaciones del Principio Trascendental y la Norma Fundamental.

Der Verfassungsrechtler und Rechtstheoretiker Hans Kelsen (1881-1973) wird weithin als einer der bedeutendsten, vielleicht sogar als der beherrschende Denker des 20. Jahrhunderts angesehen. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes reflektieren die von Kelsen auf besonders originelle Weise behandelten Themen auf dem neuesten Stand der Forschung. Es geht unter anderem um Normativität und Objektivität im Recht, um die Verfassung als Grundlage des positiven Rechts und um die Letztbegründung des Rechts durch eine "Grundnorm", um die Lehre vom Stufenbau der Rechtsordnung und um seine Argumente für einen Bundesstaat, um den neukantianischen Hintergrund seiner Rechtstheorie, um seine Lehre von der Rechtsgeltung, um die monistische Auffassung von Staatsrecht und Völkerrecht in der Wiener Schule, schließlich auch um seine Auseinandersetzung mit Max Adler und Eugen Ehrlich.

Gustav Radbruch war Deutschlands berühmtester Rechtsphilosoph im 20. Jahrhundert. Seine gehaltvollen, aber auch spannungsreichen Schriften prägen die deutschsprachige Rechtsphilosophie bis heute. Im Zentrum von Radbruchs Lehre steht sein neukantianisch geprägter Rechtsbegriff, der im Laufe der Zeit eine Reihe von Veränderungen erfahren hat. Die Beiträge in diesem Band sind Radbruchs Rechtsbegriff im Allgemeinen und den Wandlungen dieses Rechtsbegriffs im Besonderen gewidmet. Nach der orthodoxen Lesart vertrat Radbruch vor dem Kriege eine rechtspositivistische Lehre, wurde unter dem Eindruck der nationalsozialistischen Gräuel jedoch zum Naturrecht bekehrt. Zunehmend wird gesehen, dass diese 'Bekehrungsthese' zu Ungereimtheiten führt. Verschiedene Beiträge dieses Bandes betonen demgegenüber die Kontinuität nichtpositivistischer Elemente in der Entwicklung von Radbruchs Rechtsbegriff.

Der vorliegende Sammelband zu Ehren Robert Alexys vereint mehr als vierzig Beiträge seiner Schüler und Kollegen aus dem In- und Ausland, welche die Entstehung seines wissenschaftlichen Werkes kritisch begleitet haben. Die meisten der knapp zur Hälfte auf Englisch geschriebenen Beiträge sind drei Themenkomplexen gewidmet. Im ersten Themenkomplex "Begriff und Natur des Rechts" stehen die Radbruchsche Formel, das Richtigkeitsargument sowie die These von der Doppelnatur des Rechts im Vordergrund. Die beiden anderen Themenkomplexe sind den weiteren Schwerpunkten des Werkes von Alexy, der Diskurstheorie und der Prinzipientheorie, gewidmet: "Diskurstheorie, Theorie der juristischen Argumentation und Methodenlehre" und "Prinzipientheorie, Grundrechtstheorie und Grundrechtsdogmatik". Der Band schließt mit einem Verzeichnis der Schriften Alexys und deren Übersetzungen.

In diesem Band, der zwölf erstmals in den Jahren 1983 bis 2018 veröffentlichte Beiträge enthält, sind die wichtigsten nichtmonografischen Schriften Horst Dreiers zu Hans Kelsen, der Reinen Rechtslehre, dem Rechtspositivismus und deren Rezeption in der deutschen Rechtswissenschaft versammelt. Gegen tradierte Vorbehalte und wider das zunächst verbreitete Desinteresse an Kelsen wirbt Dreier in Deutschland (und darüber hinaus) für einen frischen und unverstellten Blick auf die Reine Rechtslehre mit ihrem unüberbotenen Wissenschaftlichkeitsanspruch. Eingebunden und ergänzt werden die Schriften zu Kelsen und Co. durch Beiträge zu Autoren, die sich wie die Wiener Schule der Rechtstheorie dem aufklärerischen Ideal der Wissenschaftlichen Moderne in der Jurisprudenz verpflichtet fühlen. Im Einzelnen handelt es sich um Gerhard Anschütz und Richard Thoma, Max Weber und Niklas Luhmann.