An essay on legal concept formation / Åke Frändberg -- About concepts in law / Dietmar von der Pfordten -- Understanding and applying legal concepts: an inquiry on inferential meaning / Giovanni Sartor -- The meaning of legal status words / Jaap Hage -- Explicating the concept of legal competence / Torben Spaak -- The influence of normative reasons on the formation of legal concepts / Lorenz Kähler -- The hand of Midas: When concepts turn legal, or deflating the Hart-Dworkin debate / Ralf Poscher -- After conceptual analysis: the rise of practice theory / Dennis Patterson
Summary
Contains a selection of papers from a special workshop on legal concepts from the IVR conference in Cracow 2007. This volume also includes an analysis of one of the most central concepts of the law, namely that of a legal power. It is suitable for those who are interested in the role of concepts in the law and our understanding of it
