Legal Rights and the Institutional Imagination.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Hamish.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociological jurisprudence.

Law and the social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.

Summary:

Presents a contemporary perspective on legal rights centred around the longstanding will theory-interest theory debate.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

Table of Cases

1. Legal Rights and Contemporary Scholarship - The Antinomy of Interest Theory and Will Theory

1.1. Introduction

1.2. The Antinomy of Interest Theory and Will Theory

1.3. Towards Theoretical Interpenetration

1.4. Resonances of Protection and Empowerment in Social Theory

1.5. Concluding Reflections

2. Theories of Rights and Theories of Law

2.1. Introduction

2.2. HLA Hart's Ordinary Language Methodology and Will Theory of Rights

2.3. Neil MacCormick's Institutional Theory of Law and Interest Theory of Rights

2.4. Concluding Reflections

3. The Legal Right Constructed in the Judicial Consciousness

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Theories of Rights - Three Constraining Factors

3.3. Ontological Implications of the Three Constraining Factors

3.4. Concluding Reflections

4. Hans Kelsen and the Gravitational Pull of Social Theory

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Kelsen's Reconstructed Legal Norm (Rechtssatz)

4.3. Subjective Meaning - Sinn

4.4. Legal Meaning (Rechtliche Bedeutung) and Rechtssatz

4.5. Sociological Repositioning of the Rechtssatz

4.6. Concluding Reflections

5. HLA Hart and the Gravitational Pull of Social Theory

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Social Theory and Tensions Around the Idea of 'Descriptive Sociology'

5.3. Resonances of Weber in Hart's Key Writings

5.4. Concluding Reflections

6. Towards a Defence of Hartian Will Theory

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Core Aspects of MacCormick's Critique of Hartian Will Theory

6.3. Defending Hartian Will Theory

6.4. Concluding Reflections

7. Ronald Dworkin's 'Herculean' Approach to the Judicial Role

7.1. Introduction

7.2. The Herculean Archetype and Dworkin's Anti-Positivist Stance

7.3. Concluding Reflections

8. Constructing Iudex as an Ideal Type.

8.1. Introduction

8.2. 'Herculean' Decision-Making (Case Study)

8.3. Iudex and Modified 'Herculean' Decision-Making

8.4. Concluding Reflections

9. Ontological Questions Around Legal Rights

9.1. Theoretical Tensions

9.2. Ontological Questions Around Legal Rights

9.3. 'Third Way' Rights Theorising

9.4. Final Reflections

Bibliography

Index.

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ISBN:

1-5099-7897-6

1-5099-7898-4

1-5099-7899-2

OCLC:

1579268282