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Legal power and legal competence : meaning, normativity, officials and theories / Gonzalo Villa-Rosas, Torben Spaak, editors.

This volume explores the concepts of legal power and legal competence in fourteen original, cutting-edge chapters by leading legal theorists. Legal power and legal competence are major topics in jurisprudence, as they concern a range of practices, common to all modern legal systems, that empower ind...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Villa Rosas, Gonzalo, Spaak, Torben
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2023.
Series:Law and philosophy library ; v. 140.
Subjects:
Jurisprudence.
Law > Philosophy.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Meaning of `Legal Power and `Legal Competence
  • 2 The Normativity of Legal Power and Legal Competence
  • 3 Legal Power and Constitutive Rules
  • 4 Legal Officials and Legal Offices
  • 5 Theories of Legal Power and Legal Competence
  • References
  • Part I: The Meaning of `Legal Power and `Legal Competence
  • Capabilities, Powers and Competences
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Actions, Capabilities and Attribution
  • 3 Kinds of Rules and Kinds of Powers
  • 4 Directly and Indirectly Rule-Based Facts
  • 5 Juridical Acts
  • 6 Competence
  • 7 Examples
  • 7.1 Super-Tramp
  • 7.2 Moving House
  • 7.3 Administrative Dispositions
  • 7.4 House Search
  • 7.5 Legislation
  • 7.6 Contracting
  • 8 Conclusion
  • References
  • Expanding Agency and Borders of Competence
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Functions of Competence
  • 2.1 Autonomy, Self-Determination and Competence
  • 3 Competence and Disability Law
  • 3.1 Taxonomy of Competences
  • 4 Soft Competence
  • 4.1 Soft Competences of Nonhuman Animals
  • 5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Structures of Legal Competences
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Problems of Defining Legal Competence
  • 2.1 The Notion of Intention
  • 2.2 Competences and Reasons
  • 2.3 Competences and Constitutional Restrictions
  • 2.4 Competences and Legal Change
  • 2.5 Competences as Power to Create Legal Arguments
  • 3 Competences as Legal Positions or Relations
  • 4 Definitive Norms and Validity in Principle
  • 5 Competence and Permission
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Part II: The Normativity of Legal Power and Legal Competence
  • Testing the Utility of a Concept of Power-Conferring Norm: A Proposal
  • 1 Ordinary Legal Language and Conceptual Discomfort
  • 2 Conceptual Conventionalism
  • 3 A Theory of Power-Conferring Norms
  • 4 Types of Power-Conferring Norms
  • 4.1 A Twofold Theoretical Construction
  • 4.2 Outline of a Typology of Power-Conferring Norms
  • 4.2.1 The Actor
  • 4.2.2 The Action or Procedure
  • 4.2.3 The Range of Application
  • 4.2.4 The Range of Regulation
  • 5 Types of Relationships Between Power-Conferring Norms
  • 5.1 Coordination and Hierarchisation of Power-Conferring Norms
  • 5.2 Outline of a Typology of Relationships Between Power-Conferring Norms
  • 5.2.1 Forms of Coordination
  • 5.2.2 Forms of Hierarchisation
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References
  • On the Function of Competence Norms in a Legal System
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Some Conceptual Considerations
  • 2.1 On the Notion of Function
  • 2.2 The Concept of Competence
  • 2.3 The Semantic Conception of Norms
  • 3 On the Function of Hartś Secondary Rules
  • 4 Kelsenś View on the Function of Competence Norms
  • 5 Competence Norms qua Prescriptions
  • 6 Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Part III: Legal Power and Constitutive Rules
  • Recognition
  • 1 What It Is
  • 2 What It Is Not
  • 3 Variety of RR
  • 4 Recognition Statements
  • References
  • Institutions and Constitutive Rules

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