Legal Validity and Soft Law

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Westerman, Pauline (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Hage, Jaap (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kirste, Stephan (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mackor, Anne Ruth (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Law and Philosophy Library, 122
• Subjects: Law-Philosophy.; Law.; Political science.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.

This book features essays that investigate the nature of legal validity from the point of view of different traditions and disciplines. Validity is a fascinating and elusive characteristic of law that in itself deserves to be explored, but further investigation is made more acute and necessary by th...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: What Is Validity? Lessons From Soft Law (Jaap Hage)
• Chapter 2: Concept and Validity of Law (Stephan Kirste)
• What is legal validity and is it important? Some critical remarks about the legal status of soft law (Anne-Ruth Mackor)
• Chapter 4: Validity: The Reputation Of Rules (Pauline Westerman)
• Chapter 5: Sources of Validity (Matthieu Carpentier)
• Chapter 6: Unpacking Legal Validity (Paolo Sandro)
• Chapter 7: Critical Remarks on Alf Ross's Probabilistic Concept of Validity (Katarzyna Eliasz)
• Chapter 8: A Fuller Understanding of Legal Validity and Soft Law (Bart van Klink)
• Chapter 9: Sovereignty And Validity (Antonia Waltermann)
• Chapter 10: A Short Note On Validity Of Rules Guiding Informal Markets (Yugank Goyal)
• Chapter 11: Legal Validity, Soft Law and International Human Rights Law (Mátyás Bódig)
• Chapter 12: Validity in positive law (Dietmar von der Pfordten).