The Counterfactual Yardstick: Normativity, Self-Constitutionalisation and the Public Sphere

By Karolina M. Cern

The book discusses a democratic legitimation for modern law. Debates on Europeanisation are taken into account. Ronald Dworkin's, Neil MacCormick's and J rgen Habermas's standpoints on relations between the law and the public sphere are investigated. Concepts of self-reflexive polity, self-constitutionalisation, constitutional patriotism are analysed.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 363165488X
• ISBN13: 9783631654880
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"