Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law
This book is a summary of the author’s 40 years of research in the fields of civil law and the philosophy of law. The main focus is on the two main tasks in the doctrinal study of law: the interpretation and systematisation of legal norms. In this regard,
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Law and Philosophy Library VOLUME 96
Series Editors: FRANCISCO J. LAPORTA, Department of Law, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain FREDERICK SCHAUER, School of Law, University of Virginia, U.S.A. TORBEN SPAAK, Uppsala University, Sweden Former Series Editors: AULIS AARNIO, MICHAEL D. BAYLES† , CONRAD D. JOHNSON† , ALAN MABE, ALEKSANDER PECZENIK† Editorial Advisory Board: AULIS AARNIO, Secretary General of the Tampere Club, Finland HUMBERTO ÁVILA, Federal University of South Brazil, Brazil ZENON BANKOWSKI, Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom PAOLO COMANDUCCI, University of Genoa, Italy HUGH CORDER, University of Cape Town, South Africa DAVID DYZENHAUS, University of Toronto, Canada ERNESTO GARZÓN VALDÉS, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg Universitat, Mainz, Germany RICCARDO GUASTINI, University of Genoa, Italy JOHN KLEINIG, Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, U.S.A. PATRICIA MINDUS, Università Degli Studi di Torino, Italy YASUTOMO MORIGIWA, Nagoya University, Japan GIOVANNI BATTISTA RATTI, “Juan de la Cierva” Fellow in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Girona, Spain WOJCIECH SADURSKI, European University Institute, Department of Law, Florence, Italy HORACIO SPECTOR, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina ROBERT S. SUMMERS, School of Law, Cornell University, U.S.A. MICHEL TROPER, Membre de l’Institut Universitaire de France, France CARL WELLMAN, Department of Philosophy, Washington University, U.S.A. For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6210
ESSAYS ON THE DOCTRINAL STUDY OF LAW
Aulis Aarnio University of Tampere, The Tampere Club, Finland
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Prof. Aulis Aarnio University of Tampere The Tampere Club Nuijamiehentie 4 36270 Kangasala Finland [email protected]
ISSN 1572-4395 ISBN 978-94-007-1654-4 e-ISBN 978-94-007-1655-1 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1655-1 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011930554 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
To Ernesto Garzón Valdés, for inviting me on an intellectual adventure into science, man and society
Preface
This book deals with the doctrinal study of law, although the focus is on the legal reasoning in general. The topics have been chosen for a special reason. I first began to think about the value of philosophy for practical lawyers more than fifty years ago. The past five decades have shown that my curiosity has not been wasted. I am now more c
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