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Book SynopsisThe second Yearbook of the Central East European Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists aims at reassessing some major legacies of jurisprudence and political philosophy, thereby celebrating one hundred years from the publication of the first important theoretical account of Hans Kelsen –
Hauptprobleme der Staatsrechtslehre; the fifty-years anniversary of one of the most important contemporary books in legal theory – Herbert Hart’s
The Concept of Law; as well as the forty-years heritage of the most influential 20th century account of justice – John Rawls’s
A Theory of Justice. On this occasion fourteen scholars from Eastern and Central Europe gave their accounts and interpretations of jurisprudential and political philosophical problems that persist or emerge anew in contemporary debates.
Table of ContentsContents: Miodrag A. Jovanović/Bojan Spaić:Introduction – Szilárd Tattay: Are there any natural rights in Asuinas? – Marko Simendić: Hobbes and Coke on corporations: Parallels and dissonances – Tomasz Pietrzykowski: The Nature and Limits of Conceptual Truths – Goran Dajović: The Nature of Jurisprudence – Balázs Fekete: The Concept of Legal Culture Revisited: An East-Central European Perspective – Péter Cserne: Between the ‘Metaphysics of the Stone Age’ and the ‘Brave New World’: H. L. A. Hart on the Law’s Assumptions about Human Nature – Axelle Reiter: Hedgehogs, Foxes and Hart’s Rule of Recognition: The Concept of Law in the post-Westphalian International Legal Order – Petra Gümplová: Hans Kelsen’s Critique of Sovereignty – Bojan Vranić: Why is Rawls’s Social Contract Hypothetical? – Miklós Könczöl: Future Generations: An Almost Rawlsian Perspective – Anna Kalisz/Magdalena Półtorak: Electoral quotas and John Rawls’s idea of justice and equality – Antonia Geisler: From Defending the Minimal State to Examining the Good Life: Continuity and Change in the Work of Robert Nozick – Jakov Bojović: Amartya Sen’s Justice: An Idea and a Proposal.
