Rechtstheorie zur Einführung

Legal experts give a serious account of who has rights and duties. They make us believe that they actually know that. Legal theory gets to the bottom of the question whether this claim to knowledge can be taken seriously. It is no coincidence that it has emerged as a discipline from the shaking of the intellectual self-confidence of established jurisprudence. This shock began at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century and continues to this day. This volume by Alexander Somek offers a selective and pointed introduction to prominent legal theoretical positions such as American legal realism, modern legal positivism, systems theory, institutionalism, critical legal studies and social choice theory.