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A New Introduction to Jurisprudence: Legality, Legitimacy and the Foundations of the Law book cover

1st Edition

A New Introduction to Jurisprudence Legality, Legitimacy and the Foundations of the Law

By Paul Cliteur, Afshin Ellian Copyright 2019
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge
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A New Introduction to Jurisprudence takes one of the central problems of law and jurisprudence as its point of departure: what is the law? Adopting an intermediate position between legal positivism and natural law, this book reflects on the concept of ‘liberal democracy’ or ‘constitutional democracy’. In five chapters the book analyses: (i) the idea of higher law, (ii) liberal democracy as... Read more

Preface

 

Chapter 1: Legality and Legitimacy in Natural Law and Legal Positivism

  1. Five Characteristics of Natural Law

  2. Plato

  3. Teleology

  4. Man as a Rational Being

  5. Metaphysical Principles

  6. Absolute Validity

  7. A Touchstone

  8. Objections

  9. Sein and Sollen

  10. Empty Formulas

  11. Feelings

  12. Evaluation of the Objections

  13. Lon Fuller

  14. Natural Law, a Form of Morality?

  15. Judge and Conductor

  16. Ubi Societas, Ibi Ius

  17. Again: Empty Formulas

  18. Alternative Natural Law

  19. Perelman and Hayek

  20. Hayek on Spontaneous Order

  21. Tradition

  22. A Touchstone for the Law

  23. Gustav Radbruch

  24. H.L.A. Hart

  25. The Hart-Fuller Debate

  26. A Synthesis

  27. Lex Iniusta Non Est Lex?

Chapter 2: Democracy and the Rule of Law as a Legitimate Form of Government

  1. Postmodernism

  2. Liberal Democracy

  3. Democracy

  4. The Rule of Law and "Rechtsstaat"

  5. Five Principles of the Rule of Law

  6. The GPM

  7. Humanism

  8. Humanism and the Rule of Law

  9. The Tension Between Entrenchment and Democracy

  10. Paine and Burke

  11. Judicial Review

  12. Contradictions Between the GPM

  13. Two Consequences

  14. The End Thesis Revisited

Chapter 3: The Separation of Church and State

  1. Bishop Nazir-Ali

  2. Nazir-Ali Under Criticism

  3. Theoterrorism and the Agnostic State

  4. The Atheist State

  5. The Theocratic State

  6. Saudi-Arabia as a Theocratic State

  7. Prosecutions and Executions

  8. Cruel Punishments

  9. Phinehas and Moses

  10. Who Are We These Days?

  11. State Religions

  12. The Multiculturalist State

  13. The Agnostic State

  14. Western?

  15. The French Laïcité

Chapter 4: The Universality of Values and Principles

  1. Cultural Conflicts

  2. Live and Let Live

  3. Female Genital Mutilation

  4. The Conflict Defined

  5. Acceptance on the Basis of Respect

  6. Cultural Relativism

  7. Six Cultural Relativists

  8. Herodotus

  9. The Sophists

  10. Protagoras

  11. Montaigne

  12. Sumner

  13. Folkways

  14. Benedict

  15. Socially Approved Habits

  16. Westermarck

  17. Stace, Bloom, and Bork

  18. Dickens and Kipling

  19. Seven Elements of Cultural Relativism

  20. Dworkin on Critical Morality

  21. Critical Morality and Cultural Anthropology

  22. Consistency

  23. Practical Objections

  24. Universality is Indispensable

  25. Hamed Abdel-Samad

Chapter 5: The Classical Foundations of Modern Law

  1. A Modern Worldview

  2. From the Middle Ages to Modern Times

  3. Descartes

  4. Penal Law and Modernity

  5. Enlightenment

  6. Social Contract Theories

  7. Hobbes

  8. Rousseau

  9. Human Rights

  10. Rousseau and Hobbes Revisited

Index

Biography

Paul Cliteur is Professor of Jurisprudence at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is the author of The Secular Outlook (2010) and Theoterrorism v. Freedom of Speech (forthcoming).

Afshin Ellian is Professor of Jurisprudence at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He edited The State of Exception and Militant Democracy in a Time of Terror (2012) and Counterterrorism after the IS-Caliphate (forthcoming).

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