1 Public Law and the Scientific Quest 1
The Distinctiveness of Public Law 2
The Science of Legislation 4
The Analytical Method in Public Law 13
The Rise of Formalism 17
Only Connect... 23
2 Public Law and Political Theory 29
The Death and Rebirth of Political Theory 29
The Rebirth of Political Theory and the Study of Public Law 32
The Value of Political Theory 34
Theories as Maps 37
The Journey 38
3 Interpretation in Public Law 41
The Common Law Mind and the Order of Things 42
Public Law Teaching and the Common Law Mind 47
The Fact-Value Distinction 50
Theory and Practice 52
The Interpretative Approach 57
4 The Structures of Public Law Thought 58
Styles of Public Law Thought 58
The Ideal Types of Normativism and Functionalism 59
Stages in Understanding Public Law Thought 61
5 Foundations of Normativism 63
The Conservative Dimension 64
Oakeshott and political thought 64
Epistemological foundations of political thought 64
Rationalism in politics 69
Government and law 71
The State 74
Oakeshott and conservatism 76
The value of Oakeshott's political theory 79
The Liberal Dimension 84
Hayek and political thought 84
Epistemological foundations of Hayek's thought 85
Law and government 88
Conservatism or liberalism? 89
The liberal ideal of constitutionalism 91
Hayek and liberalism 93
Tensions within liberalism 99
The Character of Normativism 101
6 Foundations of Functionalism 105
Sociological Positivism 106
Comte's thought 107
The contribution of Durkheim 109
Duguit on government and law 110
The French tradition of sociological positivism 112
Evolutionary Social Theory 113
Spencer and evolutionary theory 114
Fabianism 116
New liberalism 119
Evolutionary theory and collectivism 123
Pragmatism 126
Beyond empiricist epistemology 127
The work of Dewey 128
The American legal realist movement 129
The value of pragmatism 132
The Character of Functionalism 133
7 Traditions of Public Law Thought 138
The Dominant Tradition in Public Law 139
Dicey's Theory of Public Law 140
Sovereignty, democracy, and law 141
Continuity and change within Dicey's theory 146
The frailty of Dicey's theory 153
Dicey and the shaping of the dominant tradition 156
Dicey and His Times 159
The Normativist Challenge 162
The Functionalist Response 165
The challenge to Dicey's theory 165
The functionalist style 168
Networks and linkages 174
The Growth of Administrative Law 176
8 Contemporary Thought in Public Law 182
Normativism: The Conservative Variant 184
The Varieties of Functionalism 190
Functionalism: an idealist variant 191
Functionalism: an empiricist variant 197
Functionalism: a contemporary perspective 201
Functionalist thought 205
The Emergence of the Liberal Variant of Normativism 206
9 The Triumph of Liberal Normativism? 211
Conservatives and Liberal Normativism 212
Socialists and Liberal Normativism 214
The Movement for Constitutional Reform 220
One Step Forward, Two Steps Backwards? 224
Philosophy and liberal democracy 224
Social democracy and politics 227
The triumph of liberal normativism 228
10 Public Law in the Face of the Future 230
The Crisis in Public Law Thought 231
Mapping the Landscape 240
Revitalizing the Functionalist Style 243
Public Law and Legal Theory 246
The Widening Gyre 250
Facing the Future 257
Bibliography 265
Index
發表於2024-08-27
Public Law and Political Theory 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
圖書標籤: 法學 law
Public Law and Political Theory 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載