An Institutional Theory of Law: New Approaches to Legal Positivism (Law and Philosophy Library, 3)

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction....Pages 1-30 The Norm as Thought and as Reality....Pages 31-48 Law as Institutional Fact....Pages 49-76 Facts and Fact-Descriptions....Pages 77-92 On Analytical Jurisprudence....Pages 93-109 Beyond Positivism and Natural Law....Pages 111-126 Law, Morality and Positivism....Pages 127-144 The Analytico-Dialectical Theory of Justice: A Sketch of an Action-Theoretical and Non-Cognitivist Theory of Justice....Pages 145-170 Institutional Morality and the Constitution....Pages 171-188 The Limits of Rationality in Legal Reasoning....Pages 189-206 The Conditio Humana and the Ideal of Justice....Pages 207-222 Back Matter....Pages 223-229