Table of Contents:
Forward ix;
Author’s Preface xiii;
A. Theoretical Bases;
I. Elements of Institutional Legal Positivism 3;
II. Towards a Formal-Teleological Theory of Action 30;
III. The Significance of Logic for Modern Legal Theory Fundamental Problems of Institutionalist Normativism 70;
B. Treatises on Legal Theory and Legal Sociology;
IV. Ontology, Hermeneutics and the Concept of Valid Law 93;
V. Constitutional Theory in the Light of the New Institutionalism 111;
VI. The Formal-Teleological Theory of Action and Criminal Law 133;
VII. Institutional Theory and Institutional Legal Positivism 148;
VIII. Sociology and the Normative Institutional Theory Reflections on Helmut Schelsky’s Institutional Theory from the Point of View of the Normative Institutional Ontology 186;
C. Treatises on Legal Politics and Theory of Justice;
IX. Legal-Political Analysis of Institutions 209;
X. The Conditio Humana and the Ideal of Justice 247;
Bibliography 261;
Original Sources 275.