Challenges to Legal Theory

María José Falcón y Tella is Professor of Legal Philosophy (1991) of the Complutense University of Madrid. She is the author of 30 books, many of them translated into different languages, such as Civil Disobedience (2004), Punishment and Culture (2006), Equity and Law (2008), A Three-Dimensional Theory of Law (2010), Jurisprudence in Roman, Anglosaxon and Continental Law (2011), Justice and Law (2014) and Law and Literature (2016), all of them published with Brill/Nijhoff. She was awarded the “National Prize of Studies in Law” in 1987.Juan Antonio Martinez MuÑoz is Professor of Legal Philosophy (2000) at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has been Director of the Department of Legal Philosophy of this University. He is the author of five books, such as El conocimiento jurídico (4th ed., 2019) and Derechos humanos. ¿Criterios de justicia o ideología política? (2nd ed., 2020) and has published more than fifty articles in his area of specialty.

• Notes on ContributorsPART 1IntroductionMaría José Falcón y TellaPART 2Law and LiteratureRevenge in LiteratureMaría José Falcón y TellaArbitration and LiteratureFrançois OstClarín,JuristIgnacio Torres MuroSome Brief Notes on Ezra Pound and Roman LawFaustino Martínez MartínezThe Undeniable Humanism of Concepción ArenalMaría Eugenia Pérez MontePART 3Constitutional LawLegal InterpretationTimothy EndicottThe Constitutional OrderReforms and RupturesDiego ValadésNormative Provisions and Legal NormsA Useful DistinctionFrancisco Javier Ezquiaga GanuzasSome Notes on Equality and Legal EqualityVictoria Iturralde SesmaOn EqualityRamón Maciá MansoPART 4Legal PhilosophyThe Law of Nations in Giambattista VicoCarla FaralliArtificial Law and “Artificious” RightsMaría Amparo Grau RuizBioethics and Legal PhilosophyAn Inevitable and Necessary ReflectionMaría CasadoPhilosophical Reflection and the LawJuan Antonio Martínez MuñozWe Are All VulnerableHuman Capability, Corporeality and Dignity: Functional Diversity Examined in the Light of Martha C. Nussbaum’s Commitment to JusticeTeresa García-Berrio HernándezPART 5Law and ReligionReligious Autonomy and Labor RelationsReflections on Institutions with an EthosJavier Martínez-TorrónReligion, Beliefs, and Freedom of SpeechThe Disorientation of the European Court of Human RightsRafael Palomino LozanoIndex