Legal Norms and Normativity - An Essay in Genealogy (Hardcover, New)

This book offers a 'genealogical' explanation of law's normativity. The term 'genealogical' conveys a commitment to a non-metaphysical type of enquiry. While it explains how law, as a normative phenomenon, comes about, it does not seek to ground law's normativity in anything but the context of social interaction giving rise to it. Legal normativity is brought about on a daily basis. Whether in revolutionary circumstances or in the quotidian need for judges, lawmakers or citizens to balance law's demands with those of morality or prudence, our ability to bind ourselves through law ultimately depends on our capacity to articulate a better way of living together, and to commit ourselves to it. These efforts of assessment and articulation depend, in turn, on our conception of normative agency. Assert the need to trace the truth of ethical judgments to some independent moral 'facts' conditioning their objectivity, and you will get a different understanding of what it is we are doing when we dispute law's authority in the name of moral values. Tracing the truth of moral judgements back to our own social practices not only affects the nature of disagreement; it also dramatically increases our responsibility when, as lawmakers, judges, or citizens we 'take the law into our own hands' and confront it with our moral expectations.

General

Imprint:	Hart Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Legal Theory Today
Release date:	October 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	Sylvie Delacroix
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	242
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-84113-455-0
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Foundations of law > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84113-455-4
Barcode:	9781841134550

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