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Legisprudence

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Legisprudence book

Practical Reason in Legislation

Legisprudence

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Legisprudence book

Practical Reason in Legislation
ByLuc J. Wintgens
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2012
eBook Published 22 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315592145
Pages 350 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315592145
SubjectsLaw, Politics & International Relations
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Wintgens, L. (2012). Legisprudence. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315592145

This book establishes legisprudence, in contrast to jurisprudence, as a legal theory of rational law-making. It suggests that by rejecting the common wisdom about the nature of political law-making, legislation could be improved and streamlined. Using the methods, theoretical insights and tools of current legal theory and philosophy of law in a new way, the book suggests the creation of law by legislators rather than government. Raising new questions and problems of the validity of norms, the book opens a new perspective on legitimacy of norms, their meaning and the structure of the legal system. In distinguishing legitimacy and legitimation of law, the book ventures into the philosophical roots of legal theory and suggests the articulation of a new conception of sovereignty. In shifting the emphasis to the position of the legislator and legislation, this book opens a number of new insights into the relationship between legislative problems and legal theory. Its main claim is that legislation should be justified by the legislator.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|50 pages

The Metaphysics of Legalism

chapter 2|32 pages

The Individual in Context

chapter 3|24 pages

Rationality in Context

chapter 4|24 pages

Freedom in Context

chapter 5|54 pages

Strong Legalism or the Absent Theory of Legislation

chapter 6|38 pages

Legitimacy and Legitimation – From Strong Legalism to Legisprudence

chapter 7|52 pages

From Proxy to Trading Off: The Principles of Legisprudence

chapter 8|26 pages

Legisprudence and the Duties of Power: A Legisprudential Assessment of Rational Legislation

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