Overview
- Develops original insights and opens new perspectives on the role, responsibilities and limitations of legislatures
- Appeals to those interested in the more practical/empirical aspects of lawmaking and to legal philosophers and theorists
- Brings together contributions on legisprudence by lawyers and legal theorists from eight different countries
Part of the book series: Legisprudence Library (LEGIS, volume 9)
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About this book
The book is organized in two parts. The first part comprises legal-theoretical accounts on general aspects of legislation as a process and as a result. The second part presents contributions focusing on specific experiences of evaluations of legislative quality and contributions to the legislature’s work on the part of the public, as well as on particular legislative policies, methodologies in lawmaking, and problems regarding legislation as an instrument.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Theoretical Problems in Legisprudence
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Legisprudence in Action
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Francesco Ferraro, Ph.D., is associate professor of legal philosophy at the “Cesare Beccaria” Department of the University of Milan and has the National Scientific Qualification as full professor. He has been visiting professor at the University of Girona. He has published books, articles, and chapters on Bentham’s thought, on utilitarianism and rights, on legislative rationality and justification, on “nudging”, and on the analysis of fundamental rights.
Silvia Zorzetto, Ph.D., is associate professor of legal philosophy at the “Cesare Beccaria” Department of the University of Milan and has the National Scientific Qualification as full professor. She has published books, articles and chapters on fundamental legal concepts, such as reasonableness, legal reasoning and language and the sources of law such as legal customs. Her main actual interests of investigation deal with nudging, economic analysis of law, and politics in legal method.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exploring the Province of Legislation
Book Subtitle: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives in Legisprudence
Editors: Francesco Ferraro, Silvia Zorzetto
Series Title: Legisprudence Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87262-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87261-8Published: 13 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87264-9Published: 14 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-87262-5Published: 12 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2213-2813
Series E-ISSN: 2213-2856
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 241
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Philosophy of Law, Legislative and Executive Politics