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Foundations and Building Blocks of Law

Foundations and Building Blocks of Law

Name: Foundations and Building Blocks of Law
Brand: Eleven International Publishing
SKU: 9789462368606
Price: 916.00 HKD
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Author: Jaap Hage
ISBN: 9789462368606

By Jaap Hage

Eleven International Publishing May 2018

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9789462368606
Publisher: Eleven International Publishing
Publication: May 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

There is no gap between Is and Ought, but there is a gap between fact and norm. There is a difference between legal powers and legal competences, but there are no power-conferring rules. There is no obligation to comply with contracts. There are no regulative rules, and all rules are constitutive.

All these claims are controversial in the eyes of many legal theorists. This book argues that they are all true, or justified, if understood in the proper context.

The argument starts from the relation between language and facts and continues with a distinction between three kinds of facts, and the role which rules play in the constitution of one of the three kinds. Building on this foundation, the book moves on to analyses of the building blocks of law: duties, obligations, permissions, juridical acts, powers, competences, norms and rights.

Interwoven through these analyses, the reader finds discussions of the alleged gap between Is and Ought, and of the logic of normative notions (‘deontic logic’).

I. RECURRENT ISSUES

Part A FOUNDATIONS

II. MEANING

III. RULES AS CONTSTRAINTS

IV. FACTS

Part B BUILDING BLOCKS

V. KINDS OF RULES

VI. ELEMENTARY DEONTIC BUILDING BLOCKS

VII. DERIVED DEONTIC BUILDING BLOCKS

VIII. THE NATURE OF NORMS

IX. THE NORMATIVITY OF LAW

X. JURIDICAL ACTS