Date: 2006
Type: Working Paper
Validity As Bindingness: The Normativity of Legality
Working Paper, EUI LAW, 2006/18
SARTOR, Giovanni, Validity As Bindingness: The Normativity of Legality, EUI LAW, 2006/18 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/6089
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I shall argue that the concept of (valid) law is a purely normative notion, irreducible to any factual
description. This uncontroversial notion, which is shared by all approaching the law from
the internal point of view, needs to be distinguished from the competing theories on the grounds
of legal bindingness, namely, on the reasons for qualifying a norm as legally valid. I shall consider
some implications of this distinction for legal reasoning and for the role of the jurist.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/6089
ISSN: 1725-6739
Series/Number: EUI LAW; 2006/18
Publisher: European University Institute
Keyword(s): Law