Overview
- The only contemporary book that comprehensively deals with the law-state idea
- Develops a lawyers´philosophy of law, combining philosophical analysis and practical considerations
- Provides a universal "Rechtsstaat" concept for our time
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 109)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Keywords
- Basic law-state values
- Clarification of the Law-State
- Compliance with the law
- Democracy, judicial review and the idea of power restriction
- Direct and indirect legal discrimination
- Discrimination in disguise
- Equality before the law
- Four basic law-state values
- Legal Certainty
- Legal Orders
- Legal protection and the law-state paradox
- Legal subordination
- Legality and Legal Subordination
- Life of human dignity
- Limits of legalism
- Procedural legal equality
- The law-state
- The technique of legality
- What is legality
About this book
In this book the author investigates what is common to the German idea of the Rechtsstaat and the Anglo-American idea of the Rule of Law. He argues that, although dressed up in rather different garb, these two concepts are in fact based on the same fundamental idea and stand for the same values (“the law-state values”) – all ideas that are in the European tradition older than their British and German variants. The fundamental idea is that the individual shall enjoy legal protection against infringements brought about by the exercise of power on the part of the state. In the book basic concepts such as legality, legal equality, legal certainty, legal accessibility and legal security are investigated. Also explored are their mutual relations, in particular, conflicts between them. Furthermore, the book offers practical advice on realising and sustaining these values in practice. Finally, it is argued that the characteristic law-state values can only be justified by reference to an even more fundamental humanistic idea, namely, what the author calls “a life of human dignity”.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Rechtsstaat to Universal Law-State
Book Subtitle: An Essay in Philosophical Jurisprudence
Authors: Åke Frändberg
Series Title: Law and Philosophy Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06784-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-06783-4Published: 23 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38027-8Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-06784-1Published: 03 July 2014
Series ISSN: 1572-4395
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 190
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Philosophy of Law, Political Theory