Recrafting the rule of law : the limits of legal order /: the limits of legal order. (1999)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Dyzenhaus.
• Other Names: Dyzenhaus, David
• Contents: Half Title Page; Title Page; Title verso; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. Recrafting the Rule of Law; INTRODUCTION; I. LAW UNDER STRESS; II. RECONCEIVING THE RULE OF LAW; III. THE LIMITS OF LEGAL ORDER; Part I: Law Under Stress; 2. A Defence of Radbruch''s Formula; I. THE FORMULA; II. PRACTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; III. THE ASPIRATION AND THE LIMITS OF LAW; 3. The Interpretation and Individuality of Unjust Laws; Introduction; The Radbruch formula; The reception of the Radbruch formula by the German courts; The legal background to the border shootings; Applying the Radbruch formula. Constructive interpretationReinterpreting retrospectivity; Hart-Fuller-Radbruch: updating the debate; The legitimacy of conventionalism; Justice and fairness in statutory interpretation; The interpretation of unjust laws; Conclusion; 4. Legality Without a Constitution: South Africa in the 1980s; I. SPEAKING LAW TO POWER; II. SOUTH AFRICAN EXCEPTIONALISM; III. PARTY STRATEGIES; IV. THE RULE OF LAW; V. IDEO-LOGIC; VI. THE LESSONS OF SOUTH AFRICA; 5. Delivering Positivism from Evil; INTRODUCTION; I. THE PLAIN FACT APPROACH AND LEGAL POSITIVISM; II. THE ARGUMENT FROM MORAL INTELLIGIBILITY. III. INTENTION, AUTHORITY AND DISCRETIONIV. LEGAL POSITIVISM'S UNDECLARED COMMITMENTS; V. LEGAL POSITIVISM AND THE RULE OF LAW; CONCLUSION; 6. Legal Positivism and American Slave Law: The Case of Chief Justice Shaw; I. THE CONTESTED HISTORY OF LEMUEL SHAW; II. SLAVES IN TRANSIT AND THE SOMERSET CASE; III. FUGITIVE SLAVES AND THE LIMITS OF SOMERSET; IV. WHY DID SHAW SEND SIMS SOUTH? COVER'S THEORY; V. WHY DID SHAW SEND SIMS SOUTH? NELSON'S THEORY; VI. READING SIMS AND AVES TOGETHER; VII. SHAW, FUGITIVE SLAVES, AND LEGAL POSITIVISM; VIII. THE BURDEN OF POSITIVISM. 7. The Rule of Law and Judicial Review: Reflections on the Israeli Constitutional RevolutionI. INTRODUCTION; II. THE RULE OF LAW IN ISRAEL; III. JUDICIAL REVIEW AND THE RULE OF LAW: A CRITIQUE; IV. CONCLUSION; Part II: Reconceiving the Rule of Law; 8. Rhetoric and the Rule of Law; INTRODUCTION; I. FIRST COMMONPLACE: THE ARGUABLE CHARACTER OF LAW; II. SECOND COMMONPLACE: THE RULE OF LAW; III. TOWARD RECONCILIATION; 9. Utopia and the Rule of Law; I. THE RULE OF LAW; II. THE EQUALITY CRITIQUE; III. THE DIFFERENCE CRITIQUE; IV. THE DEMOCRACY CRITIQUE; V. MORALITY AND POSITIVISM. 10. The Rule of Law Revisited: Democracy and CourtsI. THICK AND THIN; II. OF BICKEL AND PICKLES; III. A DEMOCRATIC REFERENCE; IV. HOW RULES RULE; V. CURIAL IMPLICATIONS; VI. CONCLUSION; Part III: The Limits of Legal Order; 11. Parks, Dogs, and the Rule of Law: Post-communist Reflections; 12. Globalization and the Fate of Law; I. AN ELECTIVE AFFINITY BETWEEN ECONOMIC LIBERALISM AND THE RULE OF LAW?; II. MODERN IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TIME AND SPACE HORIZONS OF ECONOMIC ACTION; III. POLITICAL LESSONS; 13. Supranational Challenges to the Rule of Law: The Case of the European Union.
• Publisher Details: Oxford Portland, Or : Hart Pub
• Publication Date: 1999
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 380 pages)
• Subjects: 340/.11; Rule of law; Règle de droit; Droit -- Philosophie; LAW -- Jurisprudence; LAW -- General Practice; LAW -- Reference; LAW -- Essays; LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism; LAW -- Practical Guides; Rule of law; Primauté du droit; Rechtstheorie; Rechtsorde; Rechtsbeginselen; Electronic books; Electronic book
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847311412; 1847311415
• Related ISBNs: 1901362310; 9781901362312
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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