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Philosophy of Law

Philosophy of Law

Jerzy Zajadło, Kamil Zeidler

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University studies mean the critical reading of texts, and also reflection. The latter should be stimulated by lectures and tutorials, and by discussion. In an attempt to meet the needs of students, we offer here a handbook (in English) for the study of the philosophy of law. An innovative idea underlies this handbook – teaching an aspect of law through questions and answers. It is based on a philosophical approach to the study of law. In preparing this handbook, the authors have drawn on English-language models – in the first instance, on the Routletge Questions & Answers Series: Jurisprudence 2013–2014 by David Brooke (New York 2013). We have proceeded from a position that the subject of philosophy of law may be dealt with in five sections. These are: (I) methodology; (II) people; (III) approaches; (IV) concepts; and (V)  hard cases. The contents of our book reflects this division into parts. At the outset, however, we must mention some reservations. First, this handbook considers problems of contemporary philosophy of law, but it is by no means a handbook of the history of philosophy of law. Second, this handbook has a module-based organization. In the future, it will be possible to change these modules as required. Thus, it is an open-ended offering, which will certainly – and this was part of the project from the start - be subject to further changes, supplements, and modifications in subsequent editions.

From the Editors (Jerzy Zajadło, Kamil Zeidler) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Instead of an Introduction:
What Use Is the Philosophy of Law to Lawyers? (Jerzy Zajadło) . . . . . 9
Part I
Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 1. The Methodological Status
of Legal Studies (Jerzy Zajadło) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Chapter 2. Philosophy of Law
and Theory of Law (Jerzy Zajadło) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 3. Philosophy of Law
and Sociology of Law (Jerzy Zajadło) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 4. Theory of Law and Sociology of Law (Jerzy Zajadło) . . . . . 39
Part II
People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Chapter 1. Robert Alexy (Jerzy Zajadło) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Chapter 2. John Finnis (Tomasz Widłak) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Chapter 3. Lon L. Fuller (Tomasz Snarski) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Chapter 4. Herbert L.A. Hart (Magdalena Glanc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Chapter 5. Oliver W. Holmes (Oktawian Nawrot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Chapter 6. Hans Kelsen (Jarosław Niesiołowski) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Part III
Tendencies, Movements, Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Chapter 1. Bio-law (Oktawian Nawrot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Chapter 2. Law and Economics (Tomasz Widłak) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Chapter 3. Feminism and Law (Anna Machnikowska) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Chapter 4. Hermeneutics and Law
(Filip Przybylski-Lewandowski) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Chapter 5. Critical Legal Studies (Paweł Sut) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Chapter 6. Legal Positivism (Magdalena Glanc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Chapter 7. Law and Literature (Kamil Zeidler) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Chapter 8. Natural Law (Paweł Sut) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Chapter 9. Legal Realism (Maciej Wojciechowski) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Chapter 10. Theories of legal argumentation (Kamil Zeidler) . . . . . . . . 161
Part IV
Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Chapter 1. Dignity (Paweł Sut) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Chapter 2. Ius and lex (Jerzy Zajadło) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Chapter 3. Legal certainty (Maciej Wojciechowski) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Chapter 4. Obedience (Maciej Wojciechowski) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Chapter 5. Truth (Jerzy Zajadło) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Chapter 6. Equality (Jerzy Zajadło) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Chapter 7. Solidarity (Jerzy Zajadło) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Chapter 8. Equity (Tomasz Widłak) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Chapter 9. Justice (Oktawian Nawrot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Chapter 10. Freedom/Liberty (Paweł Sut) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Part V
Hard cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Chapter 1. Do hard cases exist
and if so what are they? (Jerzy Zajadło) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Chapter 2. Great disputes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
2.1. Hart v. Fuller (Tomasz Snarski) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
2.2. Hart v. Devlin (Magdalena Glanc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Chapter 3. Law’s con$ ict with law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
3.1. The plank of Carneades (Magdalena Glanc) . . . . . . . . . 289
3.2. Radbruch’s Formula (Jerzy Zajadło) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
3.3. Legality and legitimization (Tomasz Widłak) . . . . . . . . 299
Chapter 4. The con$ ict of law with other normative systems . . . . . . . 303
4.1. Cannibalism (Tomasz Widłak) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
4.2. The cultural defense (Tomasz Snarski) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
4.3. The judge’s conscience (Jerzy Zajadło) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Selected Further Readings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

  • Title: Philosophy of Law
  • Author: Jerzy Zajadło, Kamil Zeidler
  • ISBN: 978-83-8206-501-5, 9788382065015
  • Date of issue: 2022-09-30
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_2xur
  • Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego