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INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I: LEGAL NORMS AND LEGAL SYSTEM 1. Introduction 2. The Theory of Sense for Frescriptions a) Convention-T 8 / b) A semantics for deontic logic 9 / c) Does convention-T provide a complete theory of meaning? I0 3. The Theory of Force, and Prescriptions a) The illocutionary force of prescriptions 12 / b) Intentions and meanings 14 / c) Re- levance and implicit meaning 16 4. Conclusions APPENDIX A: A FORMAL THEORY OF SENSE FOR PRESCRIPTIONS a) Language LN b) Open Sentences c) Satisfaction and Compliance i) A subset of LN 25 / ii) Corresponding d- formulae 25 / iii) Satisfaction and the truth of d- formulae 27 / iv) Compliance and the efficacy of d- formulae and i-formulae 28 APPENDIX B: RELEVANCE, ARGUMENTATION AND NORMATIVE SYSTEMS a) Relevance Beyond Logic b) The Logic of Relevance c) Logic Plus Relevance d) Relevance and Normative Systems CHAPTER If: A LOGICAL ANALYSIS OF LEGAL PROPOSITIONS 1. Introduction 2. Deontic Legal Statements and Conceptual Legal Statements 3. Pure Legal Statements and Applicative Legal Statements 4. Truth-Conditions of Legal Statements 5. Legal Statements and Contradictions: The Law Speaks With Many Voices 6. Legal Statements and Normative Gaps: The Law Is Silent a) Kelsen: gaps as fiction 59 / b) Dworkin and the completeness of the law 63 / c) Legal reasons, sources and gaps 66 7. Legal Statements and Vagueness: The Law Speaks With an Uncertain Voice a) Accepting the conclusion of sorites 75 / b) Rejecting the argument: Degrees of truth 77 / c) Rejecting the premises 79 8. Excursus on Gaps of Cognition 9. Conclusions APPENDIX: TRUTH-CONDITIONS AND THE LOGICAL ANALYSIS OF LEGAL STATEMENTS CHAPTER III: LEGAL DYNAMICS 1. Introduction: Legal Order and Legal System 2. Identifying Legal Orders 3. The Applicability of Legal Norms 4. Applicable But Invalid Norms a) Customary norms 109 / b) Standards of morality 109 / c) Irregular norms 110 / d) Re- ceived Norms 111 5. Valid But Inapplicable Norms a) Cancelled norms 112 / b) Irrelevant derived norms 113 6. Conclusions CHAPTER IV: THE PRIMACY OF THE CONSTITUTION 1. The Constitution as Precommitment 2. Possible Constitutional Worlds 3. The Thesis of Constitutional Accessibility 4. Conclusions CHAPTER V: CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION 1. Introduction 2. The Noble Dream a) The Noble Dream of metaphysical realism 135 / b) Dworkin: 'The Noblest Dreamer'139 / c) Critique 143 3. The Nightmarea) Skepticism as therapy: Jerome Frank 148 / b) Skepticism in Critical Legal Studies: Law is Politics" 149 / c) Interpretation as creation 151 / d) Critique15MES 4. The Vigil 5. Intention in Constitutional Interpretation 6. Judicial Review of the Constitutionality of the Laws 7. Conclusions: Modest Objectivity and Limited Indeterminacy BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX OF NAMES |