Overview
- First Critical Engagement with the Legal and Political Philosophy of Neil D. MacCormick
- Contributions from leading Legal and Political Theorists ensures accessibitlity audiences across Europe and the USA
- Offers Original Solutions to key questions underlying fundamental debates on constitutional law
- Newly commissioned articles pay honour to the recent passing of this great Legal Philosoper
Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 93)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Life in Law and Politics
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Front Matter
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A Life In Law And Politics
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The Seven Big Themes in MacCormick’s Legal and Political Theory
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Front Matter
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The Seven Big Themes In Maccormick’s Legal And Political Theory
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The Limits of Law
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Front Matter
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Legal Argumentation
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The Constitution(s) of the European Union
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Post-sovereign Nationalism
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Post-Sovereign Nationalism
Keywords
- Character of Law
- Concepts of Law
- Constiitutional Law
- Constitution
- Constitutional Treaty
- Constitutionalism
- Cosmopolitanism
- Critical Reconstruction
- Democracy
- Democratic Theory
- Dworkin
- EU Law
- European Constitutional Law
- European Integration
- European Parliament
- European Union Law
- Federalism
- Hart
- Institutional Theory of Law
- Juridification
- Jurisprundence
- Kelsen
- Law and Morality
- Legal Pluralism
- Legal Reasoning
- Legal Social Practicecs
- Legal Theorists
- Legal Theory
- Liberal Nationalist
- Lisbon Treaty
- MacCormick
- Monolithic
- Nation-state
- Nationalism
- Neil D. MacCormick
- Philosophy of Law
- Pluralism
- Political Philosophy
- Political Theorists
- Political Theory
- Scottish Philosopher
- Social Integration
- Sovereignty
- Theory of Law
About this book
This volume offers a collection of articles by leading legal and political theorists. Originally intended as a celebration of MacCormick’s work on the occasion of the completion of the four-volume series on Law, State and Practical Reason, it has turned into a homage and salute after MacCormick’s passing. Cast in MacCormick’s reflexive spirit, the book presents a critical reconstruction of the Scottish philosopher’s work, with the aim of revealing the connections between law and democracy in his writings and furthering his insights in each specific field.
Neil MacCormick made outstanding contributions to the understanding of law and democracy under conditions of pluralism. His institutional theory of law has elucidated the close connection between the normative character of law as a means of social integration and legal social practices. This has produced a synthesis of the key insights of the legal and political theories of Kelsen, Hart, Alexy and Dworkin, and has broken new ground by undermining the ‘monolithic’ and ‘nation-state’ centered character of standard legal theories.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Law and Democracy in Neil MacCormick's Legal and Political Theory
Book Subtitle: The Post-Sovereign Constellation
Editors: Agustín José Menéndez, John Erik Fossum
Series Title: Law and Philosophy Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8942-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8941-0Published: 01 April 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3575-0Published: 29 May 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8942-7Published: 29 March 2011
Series ISSN: 1572-4395
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 298
Topics: Philosophy of Law, Public International Law, European Integration, Political Philosophy