Sanctions : An Essential Element of Law? / Editors Nicoletta Bersier, Christoph Bezemek, Frederick Schauer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bersier Ladavac, Nicoletta, Editor.

Bezemek, Christoph, Editor.

Schauer, Frederick F., Editor.

Series:

Law and philosophy library 2215-0315 ; v. 149

Law and Philosophy Library, 2215-0315 ; Volume 149

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Law--History.

Sanctions (Law).

Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

Local Subjects:

Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2025]

Summary:

The volume is dedicated to the concept of sanctions and to the reassessment of its interrelation with the concept of law. It does not seem that long ago that “law” and “sanctions” were thought of as necessarily interrelated. “Every Law is a command”, we read in Austin’s ‘Province of Jurisprudence Determined’; a particular command, however, in “that the party to whom it is directed is liable to evil from the other, in case he [does not] comply”. And “[t]he evil which will probably be incurred in case a command be disobeyed […] is frequently called a sanction”. H. L. A. Hart’s critique of Austin’s “command theory of law” successfully drove a wedge into the interrelation of “law and “sanctions”; so successful, in fact, that it caused some scholars to part with the idea of “force” underlying the concept of law altogether and others to emphatically protest what they perceived as a rash move to discard one of the core elements of law. The debate still is on.

Contents:

Introduction

The Law Sanctions – Revisiting an Apparently Auto-Antonymous Concept

On Coercion and the (Functions of) Law

Sanctions as an Essential Element in the Legal System, and Kelsen’s Concept of Sanction and Coercion

Normativity of Sanctions

Justice and Force

A multidimensional view on sanctions

"Force, Coercion, and the Law: A Philosophical Framework"

Practical Authority as Telling People What to Do

Law Beyond Coercion? Positive Sanctions: Normative and Expressive Functions to Guide Behaviour.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9783031885112

OCLC:

1524424428