The Quest for the Description of the Law

• Main Author: Edvinsson, Reidar (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Political science.; Law > Philosophy.; Law.; Social sciences.; Philosophy of Law.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Social Sciences, general.

My dissertation for LLD (or JSD) Att beskriva rätten (To Describe Law), which was written under my bachelor surname of Andréasson, was presented for public exa- nation on Nov 4, 2004. Since then the text has been developed in two separate directions. On the one hand, three of the chapters have been...

Table of Contents:

• Legal Positivism and Real Entities
• H.L.A. Hart and the Framework of Legal Thought
• Joseph Raz – the Social Thesis and the Sources Thesis
• Ronald Dworkin and Restricted Legal Interpretation
• Common Approaches in Reasoning
• The Modernist Approach
• Scepticism, Relativism, Perspectivism …
• Descriptive Theory of Law
• Interpretation
• The Quest for the Description of the Law.