Legal Conventionalism

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ramírez-Ludeña, Lorena (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Vilajosana, Josep M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Law and Philosophy Library, 126
• Subjects: Law-Philosophy.; Law.; Political science.; Constitutional law.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.; Constitutional Law.

The concept of convention has been used in different fields and from different perspectives to account for important social phenomena, and the legal sphere is no exception. Rather, reflection on whether the legal phenomenon is based on a convention and, if so, what kind of convention is involved, ha...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1 The Notion of Convention
• Pre-conventions. A Fragment of the Background
• Re-examining Deep Conventions: Practical Reason and Forward-Looking Agency
• Part II Conventions and The Rule of Recognition
• Conventions, Reasons, and the Law
• The Rule of Recognition as a Constitutive Convention
• Social Facts and Law: Why is the Rule of Recognition a Convention?
• Cooperative Conventions, Rule of Recognition and Institutional Practices
• On Identifying the Law and Its Supposed Conventional Foundations. A Set-Theory Approach
• Part III Conventions and Legal Interpretation
• Conventionalism Unchained and Sceptical. A Defence of a Quasi-Realist Account of Legal Statements Against Dworkin's Criticisms
• Conventionalism and the Causal Theory of Reference
• The Interpretation of Plans.