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Year of Publication: 1986
Robert AlexyYear of Publication: 1986
Theory of Fundamental Rights
Concentrating in particular on the case law of the Federal Constitutional Court, Alexy endeavors to develop a general theory of the fundamental rights of the German Constitution. The most important...
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Year of Publication: 1978
Robert AlexyYear of Publication: 1978
A Theory of Juristic Argumentation
The Theory of Rational Discourse as a Theory of Juristic Reasoning
The subject of this study concerns the central problem of juristic methodology. It is possible to formulate in the question whether jurisprudence is equipped with a commonly accepted canon that makes...
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English world rights (Oxford UP), Spanish world rights (C.E.P.C.), Chinese simplex rights (Commercial Press), Chinese complex rights (Wu-Nan), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Forense), Poland (Trybunal Konstytucyjny), Turkey (Türk-Alman Üniversitesi)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Giuffre), Korea (Korea UP), Lithuania (Center of Legal Information), Croatia (Breza)
Year of Publication: 2014
Mahmoud BassiouniYear of Publication: 2014
Human Rights Between Universality and Islamic Legitimacy
Human rights are caught in a normative area of dispute in contemporary Islamic discourse. On the one hand, they have to be legitimised by Islam, i.e. ankered in Islamic legal thought; on the...
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Arabic world rights (Al-Kamel)
Year of Publication: 1976
Ernst-Wolfgang BöckenfördeYear of Publication: 1976
State, Society, Liberty
Studies in Political Theory and Constitutional Law
The studies contained in this volume discuss central problems of contemporary state order. Böckenförde is not concerned with state order per se in the abstract, but with the historical and...
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Hungary (MCC Press)
Year of Publication: 1991
Ernst-Wolfgang BöckenfördeYear of Publication: 1991
Law, State, Freedom
Studies on Legal Philosophy, Theory of the State and Constitutional History
At the centre of this classic collection of essays are pivotal questions of state order, as they can be seen in the existing, historically conditioned connection between freedom and law or freedom and the state. Böckenförde explains that law is not only a necessary condition of freedom, but at the same time presupposes the state as a unit of power and decision-making and holder of the...
Year of Publication: 2022
Armin von BogdandyYear of Publication: 2022
The Structural Transformation of Public Law
On the Democracy of the European Society
Many observers criticise the development that public law has taken in Europe since the end of World War II as an alienating juridification. In his new book, Armin von Bogdandy argues for a different...
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English world rights (Oxford UP)
Year of Publication: 2011
Rainer ForstYear of Publication: 2011
Justification and Critique
Towards a Critical Theory of Politics
Rainer Forst develops a critical theory capable of deciphering the deficits and potentials inherent in contemporary political reality. This calls for a perspective which is immanent to social and...
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English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Katz), Brazilian Portuguese rights (UNESP), Arabic world rights (Librairie Orientale), Italy (Trauben)
Year of Publication: 2010
Günter FrankenbergYear of Publication: 2010
Normalizing the State of Exception
A Critique of Political Technolog
In times of crisis, liberal constitutional statecraft must constantly defend itself against the temptation of the state of exception.
In his latest book, Günter Frankenberg...
In his latest book, Günter Frankenberg...
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English world rights (Edward Elgar), Spanish rights Latin America (Rubinzal), Brazilian Portuguese rights (UNESP)
Year of Publication: 2020
Günter FrankenbergYear of Publication: 2020
Authoritarianism
Constitutional Perspectives
Why do authoritarian states create constitutions? Is it enough to simply brush them aside as mere façades or a »constitution without a constitutional culture«? No, it is not, says Günter...
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English world rights (Edward Elgar Publishing)
Year of Publication: 2021
Dieter GrimmYear of Publication: 2021
Constitutional Jurisdiction
This book by former Federal Constitutional Judge Dieter Grimm is doubly topical: it is published on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of Germany's highest judicial body and at a time...
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Brazilian Portuguese rights (selection; ContraCorrente)
Year of Publication: 2011
Axel HonnethYear of Publication: 2011
Freedom's Right
The Social Foundations of Democratic Life
Since The Struggle for Recognition, this is the first great monograph of one of today’s most significant social philosophers.
The theory of justice is one of the most...
The theory of justice is one of the most...
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USA & Canada (Columbia UP), UK & Commonwealth (Polity), Spanish world rights (Katz), Chinese simplex rights (Social Sciences Academic Press), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Martins Fontes), Arabic world rights (Librairie Orientale), France (Gallimard), Italy (Codice), Korea (April Books), Japan (Hosei UP), Czech Republic (Filosofia)
Year of Publication: 2021
Doris LiebscherYear of Publication: 2021
Race in Law – Law Against Racism
Genealogy of an Ambivalent Legal Category
At the moment, there is much debate about the term »race« in the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany. Is it a racist word that needs to be replaced or a necessary category for fighting discrimination? Doris Liebscher explores the question in terms of history, racism theory and legal dogma. She reconstructs how the term founds its way into the constitution and examines how...
Year of Publication: 2013
Niklas LuhmannYear of Publication: 2013
Contingency and the Law
Legal Theory in an Interdisciplinary Context
What can sociology contribute to modern legal theory? This was one of the central questions that continued to preoccupy Niklas Luhmann, the great sociologist who also held a law degree and...
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Year of Publication: 1993
Niklas LuhmannYear of Publication: 1993
Law as a Social System
»Modern systems theory provides a new method for the analysis of society through an examination of the structures of its communications. In this volume, Niklas Luhmann, the theory's leading...
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English world rights (Oxford UP), Spanish world rights (Herder), Chinese simplex rights (The Commercial Press), Chinese complex rights (Wu-Nan), France (Pu Laval), Korea (Saemulgyul), Japan (Hosei UP), Czech Republic (Stredisko); previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Brazilian Portuguese rights (Martins Editora), Italy (Giappichelli), Croatia (Breza)
Year of Publication: 2018
Ingeborg MausYear of Publication: 2018
Justice as Social Superego
On the Position of Jurisprudence in Democracy
With the texts gathered in this volume, Ingeborg Maus aims at a paradox of democracy: on the one hand, citizens place great trust in the judiciary, especially the Constitutional Court, while...
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Serbia (Albatros plus)
Year of Publication: 2015
Christoph MenkeYear of Publication: 2015
Critique of Rights
The notion that we have rights is the great normative idea of modernity, specifically in its post-Enlightenment iteration. The declaration of subjective rights marked the birth of bourgeois...
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English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Comares), Greece (Nissos)
Year of Publication: 2015
Christoph MöllersYear of Publication: 2015
The Possibility of Norms
On a Praxis Beyond Morality and Causation
When we speak about norms we usually think about precepts governing our lives – precepts that tell us what we should do or what we are not allowed to do. Norms, one might be lead to believe,...
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English world rights (Oxford UP)
Year of Publication: 2023
Sabine Müller-MallYear of Publication: 2023
Constituting Judgements
A Theory of Law
Courts exert great influence on constitutional developments with their rulings. But how can these judgments expand, condense or change constitutions? And what does it even mean to judge in accordance with law? In order to explain constitutional judgements through their legal form, Sabine Müller-Mall reconstructs procedures of juridical judgement in her astute book. She not only outlines a...
Year of Publication: 2021
Andreas VoßkuhleYear of Publication: 2021
Europe, Democracy, Constitutional Courts
We are currently experiencing a worldwide renaissance of political authoritarianism. Unbridled nationalism and populism often go hand in hand with a deep-seated hostility to elites and institutions. At the same time, the past decade has been marked by profound crises and changes. The contributions in this volume, which originate from widely acclaimed lectures given by Andreas Voßkuhle...
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