It is called a “pure” theory of law, because it only describes the law and attempts to eliminate from the object of this description everything that is not strictly law: Its aim is to free the science of law from alien elements. #Kelsen#PureTheoryofLaw#legal#lawyer#law
Wise men say that heaven and earth, gods and men, are held together by the bonds of community and friendship and order and disciplineand righteousness, and that is why the universe, my friend, is called an ordered whole or cosmos and not a state of disorder and licence. #law
@michaelpforan Now, I am mostly concentrated on exploring the negative aspects of law and human nature. For the most of my life I was really in favour of all positive goods coming from law.
This is an outline of a coherence theory of law. Its basic ideas are: reasonable supportand weighing of reasons. All the rest is a commentary. #AleksanderPeczenik#OnLawAndReason#commentary
A treatise in philosophy is usually not expected
to be constructed on such a pattern, perhaps because
people suppose that a philosophical product is a Penelope’s web which must be started anew every day. #GeorgHegel#PhilosophyOfRight#methodology#rules#legal#lawyer#law
The paradoxical achievement of law thus consists in fact that it reduces the conflict potential of unleashed individual liberties through norms that can coerce only so long as they are recognized as legitimate on the fragile basis of unleashed communicative liberties #Habermas
One of the greatest merits of the critical legal studies movement was to have created an intellectual space
in which law and legal thought could be better used
to resist the dictatorship of no alternatives. #Unger#CriticalLegalStudies#badlaw#goodlaw