Awards

• Winner of Winner, IVR Book Prize, Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie.

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Law's Ideal Dimension provides a comprehensive account in English of renowned legal theorist Robert Alexy's understanding of jurisprudence, as expanded upon from his publications A Theory of Legal Argumentation (OUP 1989), A Theory of Constitutional Rights (OUP 1985), and The Argument from Injustice (OUP 1992).The collection is divided into three parts. Part One concerns the nature of law: it explores its real and ideal dimensions and how the ideal dimension of law is sometimes employed but does not play a systematically important role. Part Two discusses constitutional rights, human rights, and proportionality. It defends the construction of constitutional rights as principles against objections raised by the rule construction and elaborates on the nature of constitutional rights as well as the mathematical balancing of those rights. Part Three concerns the relation between argumentation, correctness, and law. The author concludes this volume with a biographical reflection.

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Author:   Robert Alexy (Professor of Public Law and Legal Philosophy (ret'd), Professor of Public Law and Legal Philosophy (ret'd), Christian Albrechts University, Kiel)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.668kg
ISBN:  

9780198796831

ISBN 10:   0198796838
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   16 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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