The Concept of Law from a Transnational Perspective

Detlef von Daniels is a Postdoctoral Fellow, at the Humanities Center at Harvard, USA. He has held positions as Visiting Scholar in the Department of Philosophy of Law & Social Philosophy, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, and Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan.

Introduction; Part I Habermas’s Understanding of Law; Chapter 1 Law in the Theory of Communicative Action; Chapter 2 Law in Between Facts and Norms; Chapter 3 Law in the Postnational Constellation; Part II Hart’s Concept of Law Reconsidered; Chapter 4 Situating the Debate Between Habermas and Hart; Chapter 5 Primary Rules of Obligation; Chapter 6 Establishing Institutions; Chapter 7 The Variety of Legal Systems; Chapter 8 Relations Between Legal Systems; Part III Law in a Transnational Perspective; Chapter 9 The Quest for Normative Foundations; Chapter 10 Conceiving General Jurisprudence;