Ratio Legis

Dr. iur. Verena Klappstein M.A., LL.M. is Habilitandin at University of Passau (Faculty of law, Professorship for German and European Private Law, Civil Procedural Law and Legal Theory of Prof. Dr. Thomas Riehm). The working title of her Habilitation based on Kantian Moral Philosophy is: "Vertragsfreiheit durch Kontrahierungszwang und -verbot" (Freedom of Contract via obligation to and prohibition to contract). Her main research areas are Private, Company and Business Law, Legal Philosophy and Philosophy of Science. Dr Maciej Dybowski is a lawyer and a philosopher, working as an assistant professor at the Chair of Theory and Philosophy of Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. His main fields of research include philosophy of law, neopragmatism, law and language, philosophy of human rights.

Part I - What Is Ratio Legis? The Real Ratio Legis and Where to Find It - A Few Pragmatic Considerations by Adam Dyrda.- Ratio Legis as a Binding Legal Value by Marzena Kordela.- Articulating Ratio Legis and Practical Reasoning by Maciej Dybowski.- Legislative History, Ratio Legis and the Concept of the Rational Legislator by Michal Krotoszynski.- Part II - What Can Ratio Legis Be? The concept of purpose in Kant's Metaphysical Elements of Justice by Verena Klappstein.- Nonconsequential Conception of Neutrality by Wojciech Ciszewski.- Is There a Imitative Ratio Legis and If So, How Many Are There? Psychological Perspective by Teresa Chirkowska-Smolak and Marek Smolak.- Part III - What Practical Implications Can Ratio Legis Have? Immanent Ratio Legis? Legal Forms and Statutory Interpretation by Konstanze von Schütz.- How Can Ratio Legis Help a Lawyer to Interpret a Legal Text? Employing the Purpose of a Regulation for Legal Interpretation by Mikolaj Hermann.