Sanctions: An Essential Element of Law?

Administrative / Constitutional Law

Sanctions: An Essential Element of Law?

Edited by Nicoletta Bersier · Christoph Bezemek · Frederick Schauer
Springer International May 2025

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ISBN-13
9783031885112
Publisher
Springer International
Publication
May 2025
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
Switzerland ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The volume is dedicated to the concept of sanctions and to the reassessment of its interrelation with the concept of law. It does not seem that long ago that "law" and "sanctions" were thought of as necessarily interrelated.

"Every Law is a command", we read in Austin's 'Province of Jurisprudence Determined'; a particular command, however, in "that the party to whom it is directed is liable to evil from the other, in case he [does not] comply". And "[t]he evil which will probably be incurred in case a command be disobeyed [...] is frequently called a sanction". H. L. A. Hart's critique of Austin's "command theory of law" successfully drove a wedge into the interrelation of "law and "sanctions"; so successful, in fact, that it caused some scholars to part with the idea of "force" underlying the concept of law altogether and others to emphatically protest what they perceived as a rash move to discard one of the core elements of law. The debate still is on.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Law Sanctions
Revisiting an Apparently Auto-Antonymous Concept
On Coercion and the (Functions of) Law
Sanctions as an Essential Element in the Legal System, and Kelsen's Concept of Sanction and Coercion
Normativity of Sanctions
Justice and Force.- A multidimensional view on sanctions
"Force, Coercion, and the Law: A Philosophical Framework"
Practical Authority as Telling People What to Do
Law Beyond Coercion? Positive Sanctions: Normative and Expressive Functions to Guide Behaviour
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