Overview
- Brings together the first collection of contributions on the concepts of legal competence and legal power
- Provides cutting-edge research
- Written by established as well as up-and-coming legal philosophers
Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 140)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Meaning of ‘Legal Powerʼ and ‘Legal Competenceʼ
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The Normativity of Legal Power and Legal Competence
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Legal Power and Constitutive Rules
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Legal Officials and Legal Offices
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Theories of Legal Power and Legal Competence
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About this book
This volume explores the concepts of legal power and legal competence in fourteen original, cutting-edge chapters by leading legal theorists. Legal power and legal competence are major topics in jurisprudence, as they concern a range of practices, common to all modern legal systems, that empower individuals to bring about changes in the respective system by changing their own legal position or the legal positions of others. This compilation covers five broad themes. The chapters in the first section address open questions on the meaning of legal power and legal competence, while those in the second tackle problems regarding their normativity. The third section is devoted to specifically exploring the relationship between legal power and constitutive norms. The fourth focuses on the analysis of legal officials and legal offices, while the fifth and final section assesses various theories of legal power and legal competence.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Torben Spaak is Professor of Jurisprudence in the Department of Law and Vice-Dean for Education in the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University. He is the co-editor and author of multiple books and articles.
Gonzalo Villa-Rosas, Christian Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Legal Power and Legal Competence
Book Subtitle: Meaning, Normativity, Officials and Theories
Editors: Gonzalo Villa-Rosas, Torben Spaak
Series Title: Law and Philosophy Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28555-4
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 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28554-7Published: 12 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28557-8Due: 12 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-28555-4Published: 11 July 2023
Series ISSN: 1572-4395
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 316
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations