# The Decline of Private Law - Portail Universitaire du droit

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## Parution

*A Philosophical History of Liberal Legalism*

- **ISBN** : 978-1-509-90790-8
- **Éditeur** : Hart

## Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur
This book is a large-scale historical reconstruction of liberal legalism, from its inception in the mid-nineteenth century, the moment in which the jurists forged the alliance between political liberalism and legal expertise embodied in classical private law doctrine, to the contemporary anxiety about the possibility of both a liberal solution to the problem of political justification and of law as a respectable form of expert knowledge. Each stage in the history is a moment of synthesis between a substantive and a methodological idea. The former is the liberal political theory of the period, purporting to provide a solution to the problem of political justification. The latter is a conception of legal method or science, supposedly vindicating the access of the expert to the political choices embodied in the law. Thus, each moment in the history of liberal legalism integrates a political theory with a jurisprudential conception. Although it reaches the unsettling conclusion that liberal legalism has largely failed by its own standards, the book urges us to avoid quietism, scepticism, or cynicism, in the hope that a deeper understanding of the fragility of our values and institutions inspires a more thoughtful, broadminded, and nurtured citizenship.
Gonçalo de Almeida Ribeiro is Professor of Law at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Judge of the Constitutional Court of Portugal. 
 
Sommaire
1. The Idea of Political Liberalism  
I. The Liberal Hypothesis  II. Majoritarian Government  III. Democratic Legitimacy  IV. The Trouble with Majoritarianism  V. Reasonable Pluralism  VI. Freestanding Principles  VII. Politics and Justice  VIII. Political Liberalism  IX. Pluralism within Liberalism 
2. Kant and the Will Theory  
I. Why Kant?  II. Kant's Moral System  III. Moral Value in the Groundwork   IV. The Nature of Recht   V. The Rightful Condition  VI. Private Right  VII. The Will Theory  VIII. Norm and Exception 
3. The Rise of Classical Private Law  
I. From Theory to Ideology  II. Reception of the Will Theory  III. Rise and Decline of Iurisprudentia   IV. Modern Legal Science  V. The Savignian System (i): Substance  VI. The Savignian System (ii): Method  VII. The Triumph of Formalism  VIII. Classical Private Law 
4. The Socialisation of Private Law  
I. The Social Question  II. The Social Jurists  III. The Emergence of Social Law  IV. The Social in Private Law  V. The Critique of Formalism  VI. Teleological Jurisprudence  VII. Culpa in Contrahendo   VIII. Abuse of Rights 
5. The Politicisation of Private Law  
I. On 'Legal Realism'  II. The Collapse of Private/Public  III. Confl icting Considerations  IV. Rules and Principles  V. The Indeterminacy of Doctrine  VI. The Indeterminacy of Rules  VII. The Indeterminacy of Grounds  VIII. Ideology in Private Law


## Métadonnées

- **Catégorie** : Parutions
- **Publié** : 2019-11-06

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