Lewis D. Sargentich (Massachusetts Harvard Law School)

Liberal Legality

A Unified Theory of Our Law

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Produktbeschreibung

"Legality is our topic. According to the vocabulary I use in this essay, legality is law's aspiration. It is law's excellence, a sought condition of law. When legality is realized, a regime of law exists in social life. What I am calling liberal legality, in particular, is a regime of law that helps to secure liberty. In this essay, liberal law is so called because it aspires to achieve a condition of lawfulness that is prized by a political position that prizes equal liberty"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9781108425452
• ISBN-10: 1108425453
• Artikelnr.: 49568171

Autorenporträt

Lewis D. Sargentich is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Massachusetts. He has taught jurisprudence and legal theory courses there for four decades, including seminars on subjects ranging from natural law to legal skepticism.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The idea of law-like law
2. Argument in a legal system
3. Practice of legality
3.1. Instituted discourse
3.2. Entrenched pursuit
3.3. Self-conception
4. Pursuit of the rule of law
5. Aspiration and impulse
5.1. Nomological legality
5.2. Liberal commitment
5.3. Failure of legality
5.4. Dual impulse
6. Deep duality - formal law
6.1. Rawls' first view of law
6.2. A contrary view
6.3. Law-like formality: Weber
6.4. Half-right views
7. Deep duality - law's ideals
7.1. A contrary view
7.2. Law-like ideals: Dworkin
7.3. Halves of a whole
7.4. Rawls' second view of law
8. Two perils for law
8.1. Liberal law's fears
8.2. Overcoming peril
8.3. Deeper danger
8.4. What follows
9. Fear of free ideals
9.1. Warring creeds
9.2. Moral skepticism
9.3. What's feared
10. Fear of open form: 10.1. Unsure concepts
10.2. Linguistic skepticism
10.3. What's feared
11. Modern liberal practice
11.1. Practice's view of law
11.2. Two views of disorder
11.3. Implications of disorder
12. Legality recapitulated.