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Legal Institutions

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Authors:
  1. Dick W. P. Ruiter

    1. Faculty of Public Administration and Public Policy, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 55)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. A New Conceptual Framework

    • Dick W. P. Ruiter
    Pages 1-27

  3. Kinds of Legal Judgments and Legal Situations

    • Dick W. P. Ruiter
    Pages 29-55

  4. Legal Rules

    • Dick W. P. Ruiter
    Pages 57-69

  5. Legal Institutions

    • Dick W. P. Ruiter
    Pages 71-96

  6. Categories of Legal Institutions

    • Dick W. P. Ruiter
    Pages 97-118

  7. Unwritten Law

    • Dick W. P. Ruiter
    Pages 119-135

  8. Perfection and Legal Validity

    • Dick W. P. Ruiter
    Pages 137-170

  9. Recapitulation of the Conceptual Framework

    • Dick W. P. Ruiter
    Pages 171-186

  10. Applying the Conceptual Framework

    • Dick W. P. Ruiter
    Pages 187-205

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 207-227
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About this book

Building on his contributions to institutional legal theory in Institutional Legal Facts of 1993 (Law and Philosophy Library, volume 18), the author presents a comprehensive theory of legal institutions. To that end, the initial theoretical approach, which mainly concentrated on problems connected with legal powers and legal acts (acts-in-law), is widened to allow for the development of a theory of legal judgements capable of accounting not only for enacted but also unwritten law (legal principles and customary law). With the use of the concept of institutional legal facts, the structure of legal institutions is analyzed in detail. In addition to that, a classification of legal institutions is provided. Extensive attention is given to logical, as well as doctrinal problems connected with a conception of legal validity as the mode of existence of legal conditions rather than as a value of legal norms similar to the truth of propositions. The study results in an elaborate conceptual framework for institutional analysis of positive law. In a final chapter the analytical potential of the framework is put to the test by applying it to the branch of public international law known as the `law of treaties'.
Readership: Specialists in legal theory and lawyers interested in theoretical issues, particularly in linguistic approaches and questions related to the institutional nature of law.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Public Administration and Public Policy, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Dick W. P. Ruiter

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Legal Institutions

  • Authors: Dick W. P. Ruiter

  • Series Title: Law and Philosophy Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9765-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0186-4Published: 30 November 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5899-7Published: 28 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9765-4Published: 14 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1572-4395

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0315

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 228

  • Topics: Philosophy of Law, Ethics, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History

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