Download or read book Kelsenian Legal Science and the Nature of Law written by Peter Langford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the conception of legal science and the nature of law developed by Hans Kelsen. It provides a single, dedicated space for a range of established European scholars to engage with the influential work of this Austrian jurist, legal philosopher, and political philosopher. The introduction provides a thematization of the Kelsenian notion of law as a legal science. Divided into six parts, the chapter contributions feature distinct levels of analysis. Overall, the structure of the book provides a sustained reflection upon central aspects of Kelsenian legal science and the nature of law. Parts one and two examine the validity of the project of Kelsenian legal science with particular reference to the social fact thesis, the notion of a science of positive law and the specifically Kelsenian concept of the basic norm (Grundnorm). The next three parts engage in a critical analysis of the relationship of Kelsenian legal science to constitutionalism, practical reason, and human rights. The last part involves an examination of the continued pertinence of Kelsenian legal science as a theory of the nature of law with a particular focus upon contemporary non-positivist theories of law. The conclusion discusses the increasing distance of contemporary theories of legal positivism from a Kelsenian notion of legal science in its consideration of the nature of law.

Download or read book Human Cognitive Neuropsychology written by Andrew W. Ellis and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extended version of the first edition, this book includes a set of research review papers which supplement the contents of each chapter by providing a discussion of current research issues and detailed investigations of individual cases.

Download or read book Las razones del Derecho written by Manuel Atienza and published by Palestra Editores. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las Razones del Derecho estudia de manera analítica y crítica las teorías más relevantes desarrolladas a partir de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y que se presentan como precursoras de la teoría contemporánea de la argumentación jurídica. En la primera parte se analizan, la tópica de Viehweg; la nueva retórica de Perelman y la lógica informal de Toulmin. Luego se analizan las contribuciones de Maccormick y de Alexy, que vienen a configurar lo que Atienza denomina la teoría estándar (actual) de la argumentación jurídica. Esta edición recoge, finalmente, un estudio que no aparece en la primera edición y que está referida a las contribuciones del profesor norteamericano Robert Summer. En la última parte del libro, aparecen esbozadas algunas ideas preliminares de una propuesta propia que serían luego desarrolladas en los últimos libros publicados por el autor: El derecho como argumentación y Curso de argumentación Jurídica. Manuel Atienza es Catedratico de Filosofia del Derecho en la Universidad de Alicante, España.

Download or read book Teor a de la argumentaci n jur dica written by Robert Alexy and published by Palestra Editores. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "La Teoría de la argumentación jurídica" de Robert Alexy, publicada por primera vez en 1978 y traducida luego a varios idiomas, es, sin duda, una de las obras más influyentes en la cultura jurídica de las últimas décadas. Las razones no son difíciles de hallar. El libro, escrito en un estilo claro, aborda con profundidad filosófica un problema central de la práctica jurídica: el de la fundamentación de las decisiones jurídicas y, en particular, de las judiciales. Puede decirse que, junto con el libro de Neil MacCormick (Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory) publicado también en esa misma fecha, constituye la principal aportación de lo que se ha venido a llamar la "teoría estándar de la argumentación jurídica". Robert Alexy estudió Derecho y Filosofía en Göttingen, donde se graduó en 1976 con la tesis sobre la Teoría de la Argumentación Jurídica, publicada en su idioma original en 1978. En 1984, logró su habilitación como profesor en la Universidad Georg August de Göttingen, con su trabajo sobre Teoría de los Derechos Fundamentales, que también fue publicado por el Centro de Estudios Constitucionales de España. Desde 1986 ocupa la cátedra de Derecho Público y Filosofía del Derecho en la Universidad Christian Albrecht de Kiel. Entre su amplia producción traducida al castellano figuran, además de las dos obras señaladas: El concepto y la validez del Derecho (2004); La institucionalización de la justicia (2005); Una discusión sobre la teoría del Derecho, con J. Raz y Eugenio Bulygin (2007); Tres escritos sobre derechos fundamentales y la teoría de los principios (2003); Teoría del discurso y derechos humanos (2003); Derecho y razón práctica (2006).

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Download or read book Forensic Psychology in Context written by P.A. Granhag and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academics and researchers from the Nordic countries (Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Finland) have made a particularly strong contribution internationally to the rapidly developing disciplines of forensic and legal psychology. This book brings together the leading authorities in the field to look systematically at the central issues and concerns of their subject, looking at both investigative psychology and psychology in court. Forensic Psychology in Context reflects the results of research in the Nordic countries themselves, but each chapter situates this work within a broader comparative and international context. The book is a major contribution to the subject, and will be essential reading for anybody with interests in this field.

Download or read book The Economics of Crime written by Rafael Di Tella and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title presents a survey of the crime problem in Latin America, which takes a very broad and appropriately reductionist approach to analyse the determinants of the high crime levels, focusing on the negative social conditions in the region, including inequality and poverty, and poor policy design, such as relatively low police presence. The chapters illustrate three channels through which crime might generate poverty, that is, by reducing investment, by introducing assets losses, and by reducing the value of assets remaining in the control of households.

Download or read book Constructive Adpositional Grammars written by Marco Benini and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new paradigm of natural language grammar analysis, based on adposition as the key concept, considered a general connection between two morphemes – or group of morphemes. The adpositional paradigm considers the morpheme as the basic unit to represent morphosyntax, taken as a whole, in terms of constructions, while semantics and pragmatics are treated accordingly. All linguistic observations within the book can be described through the methods and tools of Constructive Mathematics, so that the modelling becomes formally feasible. A full description in category-theoretic terms of the formal model is provided in the Appendix. A lot of examples taken from natural languages belonging to different typological areas are offered throughout the volume, in order to explain and validate the modeling – with special attention given to ergativity. Finally, a first real-world application of the paradigm is given, i.e., conversational analysis of the transcript of therapeutic settings in terms of constructive speech acts. The main goal of this book is to broaden the scope of Linguistics by including Constructive Mathematics in order to deal with known topics such as grammaticalization, children’s speech, language comparison, dependency and valency from a different perspective. It primarily concerns advanced students and researchers in the field of Theoretical and Mathematical Linguistics but the audience can also include scholars interested in applications of Topos Theory in Linguistics.

Download or read book Democracy in America Complete written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amongst the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of conditions. I readily discovered the prodigious influence which this primary fact exercises on the whole course of society, by giving a certain direction to public opinion, and a certain tenor to the laws; by imparting new maxims to the governing powers, and peculiar habits to the governed. I speedily perceived that the influence of this fact extends far beyond the political character and the laws of the country, and that it has no less empire over civil society than over the Government; it creates opinions, engenders sentiments, suggests the ordinary practices of life, and modifies whatever it does not produce. The more I advanced in the study of American society, the more I perceived that the equality of conditions is the fundamental fact from which all others seem to be derived, and the central point at which all my observations constantly terminated. I then turned my thoughts to our own hemisphere, where I imagined that I discerned something analogous to the spectacle which the New World presented to me. I observed that the equality of conditions is daily progressing towards those extreme limits which it seems to have reached in the United States, and that the democracy which governs the American communities appears to be rapidly rising into power in Europe. I hence conceived the idea of the book which is now before the reader. It is evident to all alike that a great democratic revolution is going on amongst us; but there are two opinions as to its nature and consequences. To some it appears to be a novel accident, which as such may still be checked; to others it seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient, and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history. Let us recollect the situation of France seven hundred years ago, when the territory was divided amongst a small number of families, who were the owners of the soil and the rulers of the inhabitants; the right of governing descended with the family inheritance from generation to generation; force was the only means by which man could act on man, and landed property was the sole source of power. Soon, however, the political power of the clergy was founded, and began to exert itself: the clergy opened its ranks to all classes, to the poor and the rich, the villein and the lord; equality penetrated into the Government through the Church, and the being who as a serf must have vegetated in perpetual bondage took his place as a priest in the midst of nobles, and not infrequently above the heads of kings. The different relations of men became more complicated and more numerous as society gradually became more stable and more civilized. Thence the want of civil laws was felt; and the order of legal functionaries soon rose from the obscurity of the tribunals and their dusty chambers, to appear at the court of the monarch, by the side of the feudal barons in their ermine and their mail. Whilst the kings were ruining themselves by their great enterprises, and the nobles exhausting their resources by private wars, the lower orders were enriching themselves by commerce. The influence of money began to be perceptible in State affairs. The transactions of business opened a new road to power, and the financier rose to a station of political influence in which he was at once flattered and despised. Gradually the spread of mental acquirements, and the increasing taste for literature and art, opened chances of success to talent; science became a means of government, intelligence led to social power, and the man of letters took a part in the affairs of the State. The value attached to the privileges of birth decreased in the exact proportion in which new paths were struck out to advancement. In the eleventh century nobility was beyond all price; in the thirteenth it might be purchased; it was conferred for the first time in 1270; and equality was thus introduced into the Government by the aristocracy itself.

Download or read book La argumentaci n en el Derecho written by Marina Gascón Abellán and published by Palestra Editores. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En La Argumentación en el Derecho se recogen diferentes estudios que se ocupan de la actividad fundamental de los juristas: la argumentación jurídica. Se tratan las múltiples dimensiones que confluyen en el estudio del razonamiento jurídico, situando la teoría de la argumentación en dos contextos diversos, uno jurídico-político y el contexto teórico en el que esta disciplina ha debido afrontar el problema de la racionalidad como el resto de las ciencias sociales. Posteriormente, se trata la interpretación del Derecho como paso previo que permite delimitar muchos de los problemas que surgen en el razonamiento jurídico y que exigen soluciones por parte de los juristas. Más adelante, se aborda el análisis de las relaciones entre argumentación jurídica y argumentación moral, especialmente en el ámbito constitucional, que ha cuestionado una vez más la tajante separación kelseniana del Derecho de la esfera de los valores a la que se le suponía enteramente ajeno. Finalmente, el volumen concluye con una cuestión que ha experimentado un gran auge en los últimos tiempos: el estudio de los hechos en las decisiones judiciales. MARINA GASCÓN ABELLÁN es Catedrática de Filosofía del Derecho en la UCLM (España). ALFONSO J. GARCÍA FIGUEROA es Profesor Titular de Filosofía del Derecho en la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha.

Download or read book Religion and Politics in the United States written by Kenneth D. Wald and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From marriage equality, to gun control, to immigration reform and the threat of war, religion plays a fascinating and crucial part in our nation's political process and in our culture at large. Now in its seventh edition, Religion and Politics in the United States includes analyses of the nation's most pressing political matters regarding religious freedom, and the ways in which that essential constitutional freedom situates itself within modern America. The book also explores the ways that religion has affected the orientation of partisan politics in the United States. Through a detailed review of the political attitudes and behaviors of major religious and minority faith traditions, the book establishes that religion continues to be a major part of the American cultural and political milieu while explaining that it must interact with many other factors to influence political outcomes in the United States.

Download or read book Neutrality and Theory of Law written by Jordi Ferrer Beltrán and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together twelve of the most important legal philosophers in the Anglo-American and Civil Law traditions. The book is a collection of the papers these philosophers presented at the Conference on Neutrality and Theory of Law, held at the University of Girona, in May 2010. The central question that the conference and this collection seek to answer is: Can a theory of law be neutral? The book covers most of the main jurisprudential debates. It presents an overall discussion of the connection between law and morals, and the possibility of determining the content of law without appealing to any normative argument. It examines the type of project currently being held by jurisprudential scholarship. It studies the different approaches to theorizing about the nature or concept of law, the role of conceptual analysis and the essential features of law. Moreover, it sheds some light on what can be learned from studying the non-essential features of law. Finally, it analyzes the nature of legal statements and their truth values. This book takes the reader a step further to understanding law.

Download or read book Razonamiento jur dico y teor a del derecho written by Neil MacCormick and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Teor a de la argumentaci n jur dica written by Fabio P. Shecaira and published by Ediciones Olejnik. This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los jueces y juristas no hablan ni piensan como los otros ciudadanos. Lo que al ciudadano común le parece correcto o razonable no siempre es considerado legal por los jueces y juristas. Lo que es legal, por su parte, depende de lo que es dicho en una aparente infinidad de leyes y decisiones judiciales de difícil acceso. Estos aspectos de la práctica jurídica causan perplejidad entre los ciudadanos comunes y también entre los estudiantes de derecho. Este libro busca esclarecer lo que hay de peculiar, curioso y hasta incluso paradójico en la argumentación jurídica. Este libro, que fue escrito en un lenguaje accesible y libre de los excesos del formalismo académico, es indicado para los principiantes, los especialistas en derecho y los estudiosos de la argumentación jurídica. Los especialistas encontrarán aquí un análisis poco común (y posiblemente controversial) de temas tradicionales como interpretación jurídica, precedentes judiciales, analogías, principios generales del derecho y raciocinio probatorio.

Download or read book Overhead Power Lines written by Friedrich Kiessling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book containing a complete treatment on the construction of electric power lines. Reflecting the changing economic and technical environment of the industry, this publication introduces beginners to the full range of relevant topics of line design and implementation.

Download or read book Closing of the American Mind written by Allan Bloom and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.

Download or read book A Dictionary of Legal Theory written by Brian Bix and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern legal theory contains a wide range of approaches and topics: from economic analysis of law to feminist legal theory to traditional analytical legal philosophy to a range of theories about justice. This healthy variety of jurisprudential work has created a problem: students and theorists working in one tradition may have difficulty understanding the concepts and terminology of a different tradition. This book works to make terminology and ways of thinking accessible. This dictionary covers topics from the 'autonomy of law' to the 'will theory of rights', from 'autopoiesis' to 'wealth maximization', and from 'John Austin' to 'Ludwig Wittgenstein'. The most important concepts and ideas are presented in a simple dictionary format. There are also many longer entries, where the initial definition gives an accessible explanation, but the entry goes on to give more detailed information about the history of an idea and the debates currently surrounding it.