The Making of Constitutional Democracy : From Creation to Application of Law /

The Making of Constitutional Democracy : From Creation to Application of Law

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Main Author: Hart Publishing ()
Corporate Author: Hart Publishing ()
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2022.
Edition:First Edition.
Series:Law and Practical Reason vol. 13
Subjects:
Konstytucyjne zasady ustrojowe i teoria konstytucji. Polityka zagraniczna [Uwaga: Stosunki państwo - Kościół patrz dział 23.1
Nauki polityczne
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Description:
This book addresses a palpable, yet widely neglected, tension in legal discourse. In our everyday legal practices – whether taking place in a courtroom, classroom, law firm or elsewhere – we routinely and unproblematically talk of the activities of creating and applying law. However, when legal scholars have analysed this distinction in their theories (rather than simply assuming it), many have undermined it, if not dismissed it as untenable. The author shows that the relevance of distinguishing between law-creation and law-application transcends the boundaries of jurisprudential enquiry and is a crucial component of political theory. For if there is no possibility of applying a legal rule that was created by a different institution at a previous moment in time, then our current constitutional-democratic frameworks are effectively empty vessels which conceal a power relationship between public authorities and citizens which is very different from the one on which constitutional democracy is grounded. After problematising the most relevant objections in the literature, the book presents a comprehensive defence of the distinction between creation and application of law within the structure of constitutional democracy. It does so through an integrated jurisprudential methodology, which combines insights from different disciplines (including history, anthropology, political science, philosophy of language and philosophy of action) while also casting new light on long-standing issues in public law, such as the role of legal discretion in the law-making process and the scope of the separation of powers doctrine.


Table of Contents:
  • Introduction (s. 1-16) https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509905249.0005
  • Law, Power, and Political Authority : On the Scope and Limitations of the Work (s. 17-42) https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509905249.ch-001
  • The Dependence of Constitutional Democracy on the Distinction between Creation and Application of Law (s. 43-79) https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509905249.ch-002
  • A Critical Evaluation of Moderate Legal Realism (s. 80-115) https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509905249.ch-003
  • Towards a Unified Account of Discretion in Law (s. 116-168) https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509905249.ch-004
  • Law and Language and as Language : An Alternative Picture of a Multifaceted Relationship (s. 169-210) https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509905249.ch-005
  • Creation and Application of Law : An Analytical Distinction (s. 211-259) https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509905249.ch-006
  • The Separation of Powers : A Meta-theoretical Reassessment (s. 260-287) https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509905249.ch-007