Ratio and Voluntas : The Tension Between Reason and Will in Law (Paperback)

Chapter 1 Two Challengers of Normative Legal Scholarship; Part I The Historical and Cultural Dependence of the Law’s Ratio; Chapter 2 The Traditions of Law; Chapter 3 The Heritage of the Historical School: German Nineteenth-Century Legal Scholarship; Chapter 4 The Critique of Conceptualism: Legal Realism and Analytic Jurisprudence; Part II Legal Scholarship and the Coherence of Law; Chapter 5 The Law’s System: From Total to Local Coherence; Chapter 6 Concepts, Principles and Theories; Part III Ratio and Voluntas in Constitutional Law; Chapter 7 The Rule of Law and the Rechtsstaat; Chapter 8 Gouvernement des Juges ?; epilogue epilogue; Chapter 9 The Law’s Farewell to the Nation State?;