Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law

Foreword.- Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1. The Roman Heritage.- Chapter 2. Bonus Theoreticus, Malus Practicus?.-Chapter 3.What is the Doctrinal Study of Law?.- Part II: The Foundations of Legal Thinking.- Chapter 4. Lawyer´s Dilemma.- Chapter 5. On Language-Games.- Chapter 6. The Foundations of Knowledge.- Chapter 7. On the Ontology of Law.- Chapter 8. A Moral Point of View .- Chapter 9. The Three Notions of Liberty .- Part III: Between Realism and Idealism .- Chapter 10. What is Science?.- Chapter 11. Legal Realism Reinterpreted .- Chapter 12.Outlines of the New Rhetoric .- Chapter 13. Scientific Inference - An Example.- Part IV: On the Doctrinal Study of Law.- Chapter 14. From the Constitutional State to the Welfare State.- Chapter 15.Two Types of Norms.- Chapter 16 . The Formal Validity, Efficacy and Acceptability of Norms.- Chapter 17. The Procedure of Legal Reasoning .- Chapter18. The Sources of Law .- Chapter 19. One Right Answer?.- Chapter 20. On the Systematisation .- Chapter 21. Change or Development? .- Bibliography.- Index.