Law and Democracy in Neil MacCormick's Legal and Political Theory: The Post-Sovereign Constellation

This volume offers a collection of articles by leading legal and political theorists. Originally intended as a celebration of MacCormick's work on the occasion of the completion of the four-volume series on Law, State and Practical Reason, it has turned into a homage and salute after MacCormick...

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Main Author: Menéndez, Agustín José (Author)
Other Authors: Fossum, John Erik (Other)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Science+Business Media B.V 2011
Series:Law and philosophy library 93
In: Law and philosophy library (93)

Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
DOI:10.1007/978-90-481-8942-7
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Author Notes:edited by Agustín José Menéndez, John Erik Fossum
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Legal and Political Theory of Neil MacCormick; The Contents of the Book; Contents; Contributors; About the Authors; Part I A Life in Law and Politics; 1 The Cosmopolitan Local; Part II The Seven Big Themes in MacCormick's Legal and Political Theory; 2 MacCormick on MacCormick; Part III The Limits of Law; 3 Juridification from Below: The Dynamics of MacCormick's Institutional Theory of Law; 4 Reform and Tradition: Changes and Continuities in Neil MacCormick's Concept of Law; 5 The Master Rule, Normativity, and the Institutional Theory of Law
  • Part IV Jurisprudence6 Some Reflections on the Relationship Between Law and Morality
  • Neil MacCormick's Point of View; 7 Legal Judgment and Moral Reservation; 8 Are We Beyond Sovereignty? The Sovereignty of Processes and the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union; Part V Legal Argumentation; 9 Coherence and Post-sovereign Legal Argumentation; Part VI The Constitution(s) of the European Union; 10 Legal Pluralism in the European Union; 11 From Constitutional Pluralism to a Pluralistic Constitution? Constitutional Synthesis as a MacCormickian Constitutional Theory of European Integration
  • Part VII Postsovereign Nationalism12 Nation-States vs. Nation-Regions in the Post-sovereign European Polity; 13 Nationalism, Patriotism and Diversity
  • Conceptualising the National Dimension in Neil MacCormick's Post-sovereign Constellation; Index;