From Rechtsstaat to Universal Law-State An Essay in Philosophical Jurisprudence /

• Main Author: Frändberg, Åke (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Law and Philosophy Library, 109
• Subjects: Law.; Political theory.; Political science.; Law > Philosophy.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.; Political Theory.

In this book the author investigates what is common to the German idea of the Rechtsstaat and the Anglo-American idea of the Rule of Law. He argues that, although dressed up in rather different garb, these two concepts are in fact based on the same fundamental idea and stand for the same values (“th...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Authors biography
• Table of contents
• 1. The Basic Idea
• 2. Legal Orders
• 3. Prolegomena to the Clarification of the Law-State Thinking
• 4. Legality and Legal Subordination
• 5. Legal Equality
• 6. Legal Certainty
• 7. Legal Accessibility
• 8. Legal Security
• 9. The Organisation of the Law-State
• Index.