Legal Validity

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-84946-686-8
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 406 g

Critical human interests are affected on a daily basis by appeal to past decisions deemed to be 'legally valid'. They include statutes, deportation orders, judgments, mortgage contracts, patents and wills. Through the technique of validity, lawyerly reasoning settles morally pressing matters in a way that largely bypasses moral argument. Legal philosophy has paid considerable attention to validity criteria, but it has neglected to explore validity's point: whether, and if so how, the pervasive technique of validity can contribute to a legal system's ability to realise justice and human rights.

This book shows that validity can help a political community to foster justice precisely because validity does not primarily turn on moral considerations. Validity serves to both allocate, and limit, a distinct kind of power, a power that is key to forging valuable forms of enterprise and commitment in pursuit of individual and collective self-direction. By entrusting the capacity to decide to those who, in justice, ought to bear it, validity can enable persons and institutions to rally the resources and opportunities that only large-scale behavioural convergence can afford, thereby weaving a fabric of just relationships within the systemic framework of law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tinture, Maris Kopcke

Köpcke, Maris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Why Legal Validity?

I. An Intriguing Fact

II. The Code Idea

III. A Neglected Question

2. Legal Power

I. The Task Ahead

II. Facilities to Change Legal Positions

III. Super-Tramp

IV. Raz's Take

V. Facilities Revisited, or Robert's Home Move

3. Intention in Valid Acts

I. Four Peculiar Traits

II. The Technique of Communication

III. Codes, or How to Speak Your Mind

IV. Back to Law
V. Valid Acts That Invoke a Legal Regime

VI. Valid Acts That Circulate

VII. Unintentional Valid Acts

VIII. Failed Attempts

IX. The Technique of Legal Validity

4. Justice and Convergence

I. Duties of Justice

II. Specific Convergence

III. The Scope of Specific Convergence

IV. Marking and Enforcing

V. Law's Marking: Legal Validity

VI. Two Levels of Convergence

5. Reasons to Empower

I. Empowerment

II. Expertise and Capacity

III. Proximity

IV. The Rule of Law: Rulings

V. The Rule of Law: Rulings About Validity
VI. The Rule of Law: General Law-Making

VII. Self-Direction

6. The Systemic Character of Legal Meaning

I. The Moral Need for Law's Positivity

A. Determinacy

B. Ease of Identification

C. Targeted Crafting

II. The Systemic Character of Legal Meaning

III. A Function of the Acts of Others

IV. Legal Meaning Through Time

V. A Single Author?

VI. Threads in a Fabric

7. Conclusion: The Fabric of Justice

I. The Strength of Limited Power

II. Validity's Spell

Über Autor(innen)

Köpcke, Maris
Maris Köpcke is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Barcelona.