Concepts in Law (eBook)

Contents 6
About the Authors 7
Contributors 9
Introduction 10
An Essay on Legal Concept Formation 15
A ke Fra AEndberg 15
1 Introduction 15
2 A Basic Distinction 16
3 L-Concepts 16
3.1 Different Kinds of L-Concepts 16
3.2 Genuine and Non-genuine L-Concepts 17
3.3 Official and Dogmatic L-Concepts 18
3.4 Rule Constituents and Systematising L-Concepts 19
3.5 System-Dependent and System-Independent L-Concepts 19
4 J-Concepts 21
4.1 Different Kinds of J-Concepts 16
4.2 Technical-Juridical Concepts 22
4.3 Ideological-Juridical J-Concepts 27
5 JL-Terms 28
6 Conclusion 29
About Concepts in Law 31
Dietmar von der Pfordten 31
1 Introduction 31
2 The Importance of Concepts 32
3 What Are Concepts? 33
4 Conceptual Analysis 38
5 How Are Concepts Related to Each Other? 41
6 Concepts in Law25 43
7 What Is More Fundamental: Concepts or Norms/Judgments? 45
8 Conclusion 47
Understanding and Applying Legal Concepts: An Inquiry on Inferential Meaning 48
Giovanni Sartor 48
1 Legal Concepts and Legal Inferences 48
2 RossÌ Theory of Legal Concepts 50
3 Implications of an Inferential Theory of Legal Concepts 55
4 Inferential Meaning and Wrong Inferences 57
5 Inferential Meaning and Substantive Legal Beliefs 58
6 RamseyÌs Elimination and CarnapÌs Conditionalisation of Theoretical Concepts 60
7 Possession of Legal Concepts and Belief in Their Applicability 62
8 Concepts in Legal Comparison and in Legal Doctrine 65
9 Conclusion 66
The Meaning of Legal StatusWords 68
1 ByWay of an Introduction 68
2 T u-tu 70
3 Social, Institutional and Legal Facts 72
4 Criteria Theories of Meaning 75
5 Theories of Direct Reference 77
6 The Meaning of ÎOwnsÌ 78
7 Conclusion 79
Explicating the Concept of Legal Competence 80
1 Introduction 80
2 Concepts 81
3 Explication of Concepts 82
4 Legal Scholars on the Concept of Legal Competence 82
5 A Difficulty: Competence and the Separation of Powers 85
6 To Have Competence 87
7 To Exercise Competence 88
8 Types of Competence 91
9 The Adequacy of the Proposed Explication 93
The Influence of Normative Reasons on the Formation of Legal Concepts 94
1 Introduction 94
2 How Normative Reasons Influence the Formation of Legal Concepts 96
3 Constraints on the Influence of Normative Reasons 103
3.1 Linguistic Constraints 104
3.2 Operational Constraints 105
3.3 Functional Constraints 107
3.4 Benefit Constraints 108
4 Conclusion 109
The Hand of Midas: When Concepts Turn Legal, or Deflating the Hart- Dworkin Debate 111
1 Concepts and Conceptions 112
2 Shared Concepts 113
3 The Midas Quality of the Law 114
4 Legal and Moral Conceptions 116
5 Consequences for Jurisprudence 121
After Conceptual Analysis: The Rise of Practice Theory 128
1 Raz, Authority and Conceptual Analysis 130
2 Dworkinian Constructivism 132
3 Two Approaches to Practice 133
4 Practice Theory 135
5 Regulism and Normativity 138
6 Normativity and the Practice of Law 140