Law's Ideal Dimension

Robert Alexy, Professor of Public Law and Legal Philosophy at Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany.Robert Alexy has been Professor of Public Law and Legal Philosophy at Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, since 1986. He was President of the German Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) from 1994 to 1998. Alexy's other titles published by OUP include A Theory of Legal Argumentation, The Argument from Injustice, and A Theory of Constitutional Rights.

• Part I: The Nature of Law1: The Nature of Legal Philosophy2: On the Concept and the Nature of Law3: The Dual Nature of Law4: Law, Morality, and the Existence of Human Rights5: An Answer to Joseph Raz6: The Ideal Dimension of Law7: Gustav Radbruch's Concept of LawPart II: Constitutional Rights, Human Rights, and Proportionality8: The Construction of Constitutional Rights9: Balancing, Constitutional Review, and Representation10: The Existence of Human Rights11: The Weight Formula12: Formal Principles: Some Replies to Critics13: Ideal 'Ought' and Optimization14: Human Dignity and Proportionality15: Proportionality and Rationality16: The Absolute and the Relative Dimension of Constitutional RightsPart III: Argumentation, Correctness, and Law17: A Discourse-Theoretical Conception of Practical Reason18: Problems of Discourse Theory19: Legal Argumentation as Rational Discourse20: Jürgen Habermas's Theory of the Indeterminacy of Law and the Rationality of Adjudication21: Law and Correctness