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Values, Rights and Duties in Legal and Philosophical Discourse

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Dahlman, C., Krawietz, W. (Eds.) (2005). Values, Rights and Duties in Legal and Philosophical Discourse. Duncker & Humblot. https://doi.org/10.3790/978-3-428-51685-8
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Values, Rights and Duties in Legal and Philosophical Discourse

Editors: Dahlman, Christian | Krawietz, Werner

Rechtstheorie. Beihefte, Vol. 21

(2005)

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Das vorliegende Beiheft der Zeitschrift »Rechtstheorie« fasst Tagungsergebnisse des 21. Weltkongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie zusammen, der 2003 in Lund abgehalten wurde. Insgesamt fünf Sektionen präsentieren hier ihre Ergebnisse, u.a. zu den Themen »Integration of Democracy and Law with Markets and Morality« oder »Legal Norms as Reasons for Action - Universalism versus Particularism«.

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Section Title Page Action Price
CONTENTS V
Stig Stromholm: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW Address at the Inauguration of the 21st IVR World Congress, Lund, Sweden, 12 August 2003 1
I. Integration of Democracy and Law with Markets and Morality 9
Kenneth Avio: LEGITIMACY, MARKET ORDER, AND EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS 11
I. Introduction 11
II. Jean-Philippe Platteau on Market Order 12
III. Experimental Economics and Norms of Reciprocity 14
IV. Discourse-Theoretic Explanations 16
V. Concluding Comment 20
References 21
Feodor F. Cruz: IN SEARCH OF THE MORAL FOUNDATION OF LAW AND POLITICS 23
I. Interpretations of Freedom 24
II. Toward a third Option 28
III. Intimation of a Universal Community 30
Alistair M. Macleod: WHEN FREEDOMS CONFLICT 35
I. The Issues 36
II. Freedom and Particular Freedoms 37
III. Freedom as a Value 40
IV. When Freedoms Conflict 43
V. Freedom-maximization and Freedom-equalization as Criteria for the Ranking of Conflicting Freedoms? 44
VI. The Scope of "Quantitative" Judgments about Freedom 46
David A. Reidy: RECIPROCITY CONFRONTS REASONABLE DISAGREEMENT: FROM LIBERAL TO DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY 49
I. Introduction 49
II. Reciprocity and the Liberal Principle of Legitimacy 49
III. Reasonable Disagreement: Deeper and Wider 53
IV. From Liberal to Democratic Legitimacy 58
II. On Transformation of Legal Systems and Crafting Stability - Rights, Rules or Institutions? 63
Christopher B. Gray: TARDE ON LEGITIMACY IN LEGAL PROCEDURE 65
I. 66
II. 68
III. 69
References 71
Burton M. Leiser: THE EVILS OF SADDAM'S REGIME IN LIGHT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND MORALITY 73
I. Utilitarian Arguments Against the War 74
II. International Law and Morality 76
Lester J. Mazor: DELIGITIMATING DELIGITIMACY: THE U.S. SUPREME COURT DECIDES A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 81
Selected Bibliography 93
Dorota Mokrosinska: FROM NATURAL DUTIES TO POLITICAL OBLIGATION - A PROBLEMATIC PASSAGE 95
I. The Arguments 96
II. Natural Duties are Imperfect Duties 97
III. Imperfect Duties and Political Obligation 98
IV. No Political Authority 101
V. No Political Authority 103
Michael Roumeliotis: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF REASON FROM PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND THE CONSEQUENT CHANGE IN THE CONCEPTS OF THE LAW, THE JUDGE AND THE LEGAL DISPUTE 107
I. The Disappearance of Reason from Ordinary Politics 107
II. The Contrast with the Law and the Trial by Court 109
III. The Change in our Basic Concepts 110
IV. Traditional Concepts 111
V. New Concepts 113
VI. A Note on Language 114
III. Law as Black-Letter Law, Law as Contextual and Judicial Review 115
Bruce Anderson: "CONTEXT" IN CANADIAN LAW AND ADJUDICATION 117
I. Introduction 117
II. Assessment 121
III. Other Questions 124
Kota Fukui: ON THE COUPLING BETWEEN CONFLICT MANAGEMENT AND REALIZATION OF GENERAL RULES OF LAW - IN RELATION TO JUSTICE SYSTEM REFORM IN JAPAN 129
I. Premises of Argument 130
1. The Three Sorts of Legal Relevant Communications 130
2. The Coupling between Communication A and 131
3. The Coupling between Communication A and B 131
II. Conflict Resolution in Sociological Sense 132
1. Traditional Theory of Litigation Process 132
2. The Conflict in Sociological Sense 132
3. The Conflict Resolution in Sociological Sense 133
III. Proper Conflict Management and Realization of General Rules of Law 134
1. To Consider the Relation between Proper Conflict Management and Realization of General Rules of Law 134
2. Whether and how Communication C is Controlled by Application of Rules of Law 135
3. The Distinction of Sort of Activities which Needs to Realize the Rules of Law Rigidly or not 136
a) The Sort of Activities in which the Realization of Rules of Law is Essential 136
b) The Sort of Activities in which the Realization of Rules of Law is Less Significant 136
4. The Compatibility between Realization of Rules of Law and Conflict Management in Relation to the Justice System Reform in Japan 137
IV. Conclusion 140
Veli-Pekka Hautamaki: JUDICIAL ACTIVISM AND "THE FINAL FRONTIER" - REMARKS ON THE NORDIC LAW 141
I. Introduction 141
II. Definition of Judicial Activism 143
III. Measurement of Judicial Activism 144
IV. Explanatory Factors for Judicial Activism 145
1. Judges as Civil Servants or as Creators of Law? 146
2. Judicial System 147
3. Judges as Political Actors 148
4. Legislation Technique and the Growing Number of Norms 150
V. Comparing Judicial Activism 150
VI. Epilogue 151
Hans-Rudolf Horn: JUDGES VERSUS LEGISLATORS: SOME CRITICAL REMARKS ON JUDICIAL REVIEW 153
I. Introduction 153
II. Origin of the American Judicial Review 154
III. Some Remarks on American Constitutional Jurisdiction 156
IV. The American Model in Latin America 158
V. The Austrian System in Europe 159
VI. Some Considerations on Legitimacy and Limits of Judicial Review 161
References 163
IV. Legal Norms as Reasons for Action - Universalism versus Particularism 165
Uta Bindreiter: THE MODALITY OF KELSEN'S SOLLSAT 167
I. 167
II. 169
III. 171
IV. 173
V. 176
References 177
María Cristina Redondo: LEGAL REASONS* 179
I. Introduction 179
II. First Part 180
1. Universalism vs. Particularism 180
2. Universal Predicates, Universal Quantifiers and Universal Relevance 182
3. Two Senses of "Defeasibility": Defeasible Conditionals as Opposed to Universal Conditionals - Defeasible Reasons as Opposed to Absolute Reasons 185
4. Some Remarkable Consequences 188
III. Second Part 189
1. Legal Reasons 189
2. Universalism in Legal Domain 189
3. Particularism in Legal Domain 191
4. The Debate in Legal Theory 193
IV. Concluding Remarks 194
References 195
Jan-R. Sieckmann: PRINCIPLES AS NORMATIVE ARGUMENTS 197
I. Introduction 197
II. Normative Arguments as Reiterated Requirements of Validity 198
III. Formal Structure of Normative Arguments 201
IV. Adequacy of the Analysis 204
V. Objections and Problems 206
VI. Résumé 208
References 208
Giovanni Tuzet: ABDUCTION AND DEDUCTION: EPISTEMIC JUSTICE VS. POLITICAL JUSTICE? 211
I. Abduction 212
II. Deduction 218
III. Epistemic Justice vs. Political Justice 220
V. Fundamentals of Legal Argumentation and Adjudication - The Argument from Consequences 223
Eveline T. Feteris: ARGUMENTS FROM UNACCEPTABLE CONSEQUENCES IN THE JUSTIFICATION OF JUDICIAL OPINIONS 225
I. Introduction 225
II. Descriptions of Arguments from Unacceptable Consequences in Legal Theory 226
III. A Pragma-Dialectical Reconstruction of Arguments from Unacceptable Consequences in the Context of a Reasonable Application of Law 229
1. The Structure of the Argumentation in a Context in which the Judge only Rejects the Strict Literal Interpretation 229
2. The Structure of the Argumentation in a Context in which the Judge Rejects the Strict Literal Interpretation and Chooses an Extensive Objective-Teleological Interpretation 230
3. An Exemplary Analysis of Argumentation from Unacceptable Consequences with an Appeal to a Reasonable Application of Law 232
IV. Conclusion 234
References 236
Hendrik J. R. Kaptein: SECRETS OF CONFIDENTIALITY: ADJUDICATION AD IGNORANTIAM AGAINST MATERIAL RIGHTS AND JUSTICE? 239
I. Introduction: Rights to Remain Silent 239
II. Against Confidentiality: Hiding Facts Means Hurting Justice 240
III. Confidentiality Reconsidered 242
IV. Case 244
V. The Impossible Panacea of Burdens of Proof Divided 245
VI. Background Assumptions and their Problems 247
VII. The Unfashionable Way Out: Confidentiality (Heavily) Qualified 248
References 250
Heidi Malm: AUTOMATIC TRANSFERS FROM JUVENILE COURT: ON MORAL LEGITIMACY OF TRYING JUVENILES AS ADULTS BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE CRIME 251
Sonia Esperanza Rodríguez Boente:THE VALUE OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL REASONING IN THE DETERMINATION OF THE FACTS 261
LIST OF THE AUTHORS 273