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Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Aulis Aarnio

    1. The Tampere Club, University of Tampere, Kangasala, Finland

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  • A new and personal analysis of the role of ontology in legal reasoning
  • New interpretation is given to the much discussed theory of (legal) institutions
  • Introduces the modern theory of legal reasoning of the Nordic countries

Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 96)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Roman Heritage

      • Aulis Aarnio
      Pages 3-7

    3. Bonus Theoreticus, Malus Practicus?

      • Aulis Aarnio
      Pages 9-17

    4. What Is the Doctrinal Study of Law?

      • Aulis Aarnio
      Pages 19-24

  3. The Foundations of Legal Thinking

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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  4. The Foundations Of Legal Thinking

    1. Lawyer’s Dilemma

      • Aulis Aarnio
      Pages 27-30

    2. On Language-Games

      • Aulis Aarnio
      Pages 31-38

    3. The Foundations of Knowledge

      • Aulis Aarnio
      Pages 39-44

    4. On the Ontology of Law

      • Aulis Aarnio
      Pages 45-52

    5. A Moral Point of View

      • Aulis Aarnio
      Pages 53-63

    6. The Three Notions of Liberty

      • Aulis Aarnio
      Pages 65-70

  5. Between Realism and Idealism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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  6. Between Realism And Idealism

    1. What Is Science?

      • Aulis Aarnio
      Pages 73-79

    2. Legal Realism Reinterpreted

      • Aulis Aarnio
      Pages 81-94

    3. Outlines of the New Rhetoric

      • Aulis Aarnio
      Pages 95-104

    4. Scientific Inference – An Example

      • Aulis Aarnio
      Pages 105-114

  7. On the Doctrinal Study of Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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  8. On The Doctrinal Study Of Law

    1. From the Constitutional State to the Welfare State

      • Aulis Aarnio
      Pages 117-118

    2. Two Types of Norms

      • Aulis Aarnio
      Pages 119-124
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Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law is a summary of the author’s 40 years of research in the fields of civil law and the philosophy of law. The main focus is on the two main tasks in the doctrinal study of law: the interpretation and systematisation of legal norms. In this regard, Professor Aarnio deals with the theory of argumentation as well as with its foundations - i.e., with the ontology, epistemology and methodology of legal thinking - and develops the ideas that were first presented in The Rational as Reasonable (Kluwer 1987) in all of these dimensions. The work includes an updated discussion on the writings of Robert Alexy, Jûrgen Habermas, Ronald Dworkin and Alf Ross. A focal point of view concerns the distinction between positivism and non-positivism, in which the core of the criticism focuses on Scandinavian realism.

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  • The Tampere Club, University of Tampere, Kangasala, Finland

    Aulis Aarnio

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