Ratio Juris - AZ
- Positivism, Legal Validity, and the Separation of Law and Morals
- Why Reflective Equilibrium? I: Reflexivity of Justification
- The Role and Value of Coherence in Theories of Legal Reasoning
- The Common Core between Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law: A Structural Account
- Machiavelli, Guicciardini and the “Governo Largo”
- From a Pluralism of Grounds to Proto‐Legal Relations: Accounting for the Grounds of Obligations of Justice
- Getting Real or Staying Positive: Legal Realism(s), Legal Positivism and the Prospects of Naturalism in Jurisprudence
- The Medical Exception to the Prohibition of Killing: A Matter of the Right Intention?
- The Tapestry of Reason: Generality, Specificity and Legal Philosophy
- Global Luck Egalitarianism and Border Control
- Outsiders’ Responsibility to Answer for Crime
- Starting Points: Kantian Constructivism Reassessed
- Legal Reasoning for Hedgehogs
- Raz, Practical Inferences, Promising, Legal Reasoning
- Legal Certainty and Correctness
- The Various Relations between Law and Morality in Contemporary Legal Philosophy
- Kelsen’s Metaethics
- The Right to Justification of Contract
- The Enduring Pertinence of the Basic Principle of Retribution☆
- Social Entitlements in Habermas’s Discourse Theory of Law: Welfare State Regulations as Legitimizing Institutions
- Schauer's Anti‐Essentialism
- The Modern‐Day Cicero: An Alternative Interpretation of the Work of Ronald Dworkin
- Contract as a Transfer of Ownership and Public Justification: Two Models
- The Rule of Law, Comprehensive Doctrines, Overlapping Consensus, and the Future of Europe
- The Ambiguity of Force
- Is there only One Correct Legal Answer to a Question of Fact? Three Talmudic Answers to a Jurisprudential Dilemma
- Why Benefitting a Person Cannot Constitute a Form of Discrimination
- Laments, Remedies, Rights: Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality through the Prism of Roman Law
- In Defense of the Standard Picture: Overcoming Death by a Thousand Cuts
- Whose Constitution? Constitutional Self‐Determination and Generational Change
- In Concreto Antinomies, Predictability, and Lawmaking
- Bentham’s Public Utilitarianism and Its Jurisprudential Significance
- Interpretation, Argumentation, and the Determinacy of Law
- In Defense of Hart’s Supposedly Refuted Theory of Rules
- Against the Religious Neutrality Requirement
- A Theory of Rights Based on Autonomy
- Liberal Legitimacy and the Question of Respect
- Democratic Authority and the Boundary Problem
- Two Readings of Bentham's Theory of Meaning as Applied to Moral and Political Discourse
- Consent, Sovereignty, and Pluralism: Harold Laski's Doctrine of Allegiance in British Legal Philosophy
- Reason of State and Public Reason
- A Pragmatic Reconstruction of Law’s Claim to Authority
- “Trialectics” of Legal Interpretation
- The Weaker Natural Law Thesis
- Reviving the Distinction between Positive and Negative Human Rights
- Against Human Rights Skeptics
- A Bayesian Improvement of the Proportionality Principle
- Between Traditionalism and Revisionism: Estlund and Renzo on the Obligation to Obey Orders to Fight in Unjust Wars
- Making Sense of Discrimination
- Legal Interpretation, Conceptual Ethics, and Alternative Legal Concepts
- Utility, Predictability, and Rights: Bentham’s Utilitarianism and Constitutional Entitlements
- Constitutive Rules: The Symbolization Account
- The Causal Mechanism Theory of Legal Causation
- Bentham as a Theorist of the Rule of Law and His Idea of Universal Interest
- The Idea of Small Justice
- Law and Coercion: Some Clarification
- A Pluralistic Virtue‐Centered Theory of Judging
- Impunity and Hope
- The Inner Logic of Exclusivism (and Inclusivism): Shapiro's Shadowing
- European “Freedoms”: A Critical Analysis
- Postema and the Common Law Tradition
- The Morality of Compensation through Tort Law
- Janus‐Faced Coherentism and the Forgotten Role of Formal Principles
- Realism about the Nature of Law
- Legislative Intentions and Counterfactu‐als: Or, What One Can Still Learn from Dworkin's Critique of Legal Positivism
- Hart and the Metaphysics and Semantics of Legal Normativity
- What Is “Law,” if “the Law” Is not Something that “Is”? A Modest Contribution to a Major Question
- Politics in a State of Nature
- Reductionism in Alf Ross's Early Philosophy: A Comparison with Georges Politzer and Theodor Geiger
- Migrants, State Responsibilities, and Human Dignity
- Constitutional Norms—Erosion, Sabotage, and Response
- In Defense of the Standard Picture: The Basic Challenge
- Between Legal Philosophy and Cognitive Science: The Tension Problem
- Concept or Context? The Exchanges between Ross and Kelsen on Valid Law and Efficacy
- Joseph Raz’s Service Conception and the Limits of Knowability
- The Purity Thesis
- Justifying the Imperfect: Differentiated Integration and the Problem of the Second Best
- The Senility of Group Solidarity and Contemporary Multiculturalism: A Word of Warning from a Medieval Arabic Thinker
- Between Exception and Normality: Schmittian Dictatorship and the Soviet Legal Order
- Legal Power: The Basic Definition
- Collective Reason, the Rationality Gap, and Political Leadership
- European Values: Solidarity*
- Delimiting Legal Interpretation: The Problem of Moral Bias and Political Distortion—the Case of Criminal Intention
- The Ties that Bind: An Analysis of the Concept of Obligation
- What Is Left of European Citizenship?
- Legal Judgment as Self‐Mastery
- Uncommon Legislative Attitudes: Why a Theory of Legislative Intent Needs Nontrivial Aggregation
- Overcoming Judicial Supremacy through Constitutional Amendment: Some Critical Reflections*
- Access to Justice: Dynamic, Foundational, and Generative
- Raz and the Rule of (Authoritative) Law
- Conflicts of Rights and Action‐Guidingness
- Argumentative Representation and Democracy: A Critique of Alexy's Defense of Judicial Review of Legislation
- The Forces of Law: Duty, Coercion, and Power
- Luck Egalitarianism and the Rights of Immigrants
- The Role of Defenders’ Beliefs in Aggressors’ Forfeiture of Rights against Self‐Defensive Force
- “Constitution (Written or Unwritten)”: Legitimacy and Legality in the Thought of John Rawls
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- The Nature of Law and Potential Coercion
- On Water Drinkers and Magical Springs: Challenging the Lockean Proviso as a Justification for Copyright
- Two Rights of Free Speech
- Does Empirical Legal Studies Shed more Heat than Light? The Case of Civil Damage Awards
- Hans Kelsen's Concept of Normative Imputation
- Robert Alexy and the Dual Nature of Law
- On the Role of Normative Hierarchies in Constitutional Reasoning: A Survey of Some Paradigmatic Cases
- Kelsen's Theory on International Law during His Exile in Geneva
- When Is a Regime Not a Legal System? Alexy on Moral Correctness and Social Efficacy
- Representative Legislatures, Grammars of Political Representation, and the Generality of Statutes
- Darwall, Habermas, and the Fluidity of Respect
- On The‐Law Property Ascriptions to the Facts
- Can There Be an Artifact Theory of Law?
- Flaws and Virtues of An Artifact Theory of Law
- Law Is the Command of the Sovereign: H. L. A. Hart Reconsidered
- Justificatory Liberalism and Same‐Sex Marriage
- How Rights Became “Subjective”
- Legal Rights and the Limits of Conceptual Analysis: A Case Study
- Necessary and Universal Truths about Law?
- Why Legal Formalism Is Not a Stupid Thing
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- After Exception: Carl Schmitt's Legal Institutionalism and the Repudiation of Exceptionalism
- Soldiers as Public Officials: A Moral Justification for Combatant Immunity
- Totemism of the Modern State: On Hans Kelsen’s Attempt to Unmask Legal and Political Fictions and Contain Political Theology
- Law and Precaution in the European Risk Society: The Case of EU Environmental Policy
- Replies to Critics
- Practical‐Political Jurisprudence and the Dual Nature of Law
- The Indigenous Rights State
- The “Discourse” of International Law and Humanitarian Intervention
- Authentic Interpretation
- I Should Not Be a Free Rider, nor Am I Obligated to Obey
- The Political Obligation To Donate Organs
- Kant and Habermas on International Law
- Should Empathy Play any Role in the Interpretation of Constitutional Rights?
- The Political Literacy of Experts
- Political Representation as Interpretation: A Contribution to Deliberative Constitutionalism
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- The Objectivity of Beliefs, Reasonable Disagreement and Political Deliberation
- Concretized Norm and Sanction qua Fact in the Vienna School's Stufenbaulehre
- The Distinctive Significance of Systemic Risk
- Intention in Criminal Law: The Challenge from Non‐Observational Knowledge
- Eyes Wide Shut: On Risk, Rule of Law and Precaution
- A Kantian Interpretation of Kelsen’s Basic Norm
- Tracing an Outline of Legal Complexity
- Agency, Authority, and the Logic of Mutual Recognition
- Self‐Determination and Sovereignty over Natural Resources
- Traditional Local Justice, Women’s Rights, and the Rule of Law: A Pluralistic Framework
- On the Entanglement of Coherence
- Integrative Jurisprudence: Legal Scholarship and the Triadic Nature of Law
- Coordination Cannot Establish Political Authority
- Alf Ross on the Concept of a Legal Right
- Political Equality by Precedent
- Risk, Precaution, Responsibility, and Equal Concern
- “Something More Lively and Animated Than the Law”: Institutionalism and Formalism in Santi Romano’s Jurisprudence
- Rules as Icons: Wittgenstein's Paradox and the Law
- Fair Play, Reciprocity, and Natural Duties of Justice
- The Limits of the Law
- Arendt on the Crime of Crimes
- Philosophy in Law? A Legal‐Philosophical Inquiry
- An Inquiry into a Normative Concept of Legal Efficacy
- Asking the Sovereignty Question in Global Legal Pluralism: From “Weak” Jurisprudence to “Strong” Socio‐Legal Theories of Constitutional Power Operations
- Theoretical Disagreement, Legal Positivism, and Interpretation
- Why Be Just? The Problem of Motivation in Hegel and Rawls
- The Role of the Jurist: Reflections around Radbruch
- Legitimacy as Public Willing: Kant on Freedom and the Law
- In the Shadow of Judicial Supremacy: Putting the Idea of Judicial Dialogue in Its Place
- Lazar on “Moral Sunk Costs” and the “Discount View”
- Legal Speech and Implicit Content in the Law
- Machiavelli and the Problem of Dictatorship
- Natural Law and Normative Inclinations
- Human Dignity as a Sui Generis Principle
- What Is Neutrality?
- Climate Change Mitigation Techniques and International Law: Assessing the Externalities of Reforestation and Geoengineering
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- Political Constitutionalism and the Question of Constitution‐Making
- The Crime of Self‐Solicitation
- Civic Conscience, Selective Conscientious Objection and Lack of Choice
- The People and Populism
- Secret Law Revisited
- On Normative Discourse
- Justice and Well‐Orderedness: Saving Rawls from Luck Egalitarianism
- One Myth of the Classical Natural Law Theory: Reflecting on the “Thin” View of Legal Positivism
- The Politics of Jurisprudence Revisited: A Swedish Realist in Historical Context
- The Syntax of Principles: Genericity as a Logical Distinction between Rules and Principles
- Alf Ross on the Nature of Law
- Conversational Implicatures and Legal Texts
- On Alexy's Argument from Inclusion
- The Intensionality behind Legal Concepts and Their Extensional Boundaries: Between Conventionalism and Interpretivism
- Sources of Law Are not Legal Norms
- Affirmative Action: Well‐Being, Justice, and Qualifications
- Constitutionalism, Resistance and Militant Democracy
- The Force of Norms? The Internal Point of View in Light of Experimental Economics
- The Arendtian Dread: Courts with Power
- Ownership, Use, and Exclusivity: The Kantian Approach
- The Irrelevance of History: In Defense of a Pure Functionalist Theory of Territorial Jurisdiction
- Why Dictatorial Authority Did Good, and not Harm, to the Roman Republic. Dictatorship and Constitutional Change in Machiavelli
- Paying a Price, Facing a Fine, Counting the Cost: The Differences that Make the Difference
- Staging Law's Existence: Using Pretense Theory to Explain the Fiction of Legal Validity
- Toward a Theory of Reasonableness
- Legal Hypocrisy
- Resuscitation of a Phantom? On Robert Alexy’s Latest Attempt to Save His Concept of Principle
- The Intrinsic Good of Justice