Legal validity and soft law /

This book features essays that investigate the nature of legal validity from the point of view of different traditions and disciplines. Validity is a fascinating and elusive characteristic of law that in itself deserves to be explored, but further investigation is made more acute and necessary by th...

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Other Authors: Hage, J. C (Jaap C.) (Editor), Kirste, Stephan (Editor), Mackor, Anne Ruth, 1960- (Editor), Westerman, Pauline C. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]
Series:Law and philosophy library ; v. 122
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Table of Contents:
  • Validity in positive law : a mere summary concept / Dietmar von der Pfordten
  • What is legal validity? : lessons from soft law / Jaap Hage
  • Concept and validity of law / Stephan Kirste
  • Sources and validity / Mathieu Carpentier
  • Unlocking legal validity : some remarks on the artificial ontology of law / Paolo Sandro
  • What is legal validity and is it important? : some critical remarks about the legal status of soft law / Anne Ruth Mackor
  • A fuller understanding of legal validity and soft law / Bart van Klink and Oliver W. Lembcke
  • Validity : the reputation of rules / Pauline Westerman
  • A short note on the validity of rules guiding informal markets / Yugank Goyal and Pauline Westerman
  • Critical remarks on Alf Ross's probabilistic concept of validity / Katarzyna Eliasz and Wojciech Załuski
  • Sovereignty and validity : on the relation between the concepts and the role of acceptance / Antonia Waltermann
  • Legal validity, soft law, and international human rights law / Mátyás Bódig
  • Soft law in public international law : a pragmatic or a principled choice? : comparing the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement / Marcel M.T.A. Brus