{"product_id":"the-making-of-constitutional-democracy-from-creation-to-application-of-law-9781509955213","title":"The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis open access book addresses a palpable, yet widely neglected, tension in legal discourse. \u003c\/b\u003eIn our everyday legal practices – whether taking place in a courtroom, classroom, law firm, or elsewhere – we routinely and unproblematically talk of the activities of creating and applying the law. However, when legal scholars have analysed this distinction in their theories (rather than simply assuming it), many have undermined it, if not dismissed it as untenable.  The book considers the relevance of distinguishing between law-creation and law-application and how this transcends the boundaries of jurisprudential enquiry. It argues that such a distinction is also a crucial component of political theory. For if there is no possibility of applying a legal rule that was created by a different institution at a previous moment in time, then our current constitutional-democratic frameworks are effectively empty vessels that conceal a power relationship between public authorities and citizens that is very different from the one on which constitutional democracy is grounded.  After problematising the most relevant objections in the literature, the book presents a comprehensive defence of the distinction between creation and application of law within the structure of constitutional democracy. It does so through an integrated jurisprudential methodology, which combines insights from different disciplines (including history, anthropology, political science, philosophy of language, and philosophy of action) while also casting new light on long-standing issues in public law, such as the role of legal discretion in the law-making process and the scope of the separation of powers doctrine.  \u003ci\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Making of Constitutional Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich and sophisticated book. Its bibliographical apparatus is simply breathtaking. The depth of Sandro’s engagement with multiple areas of legal theory is remarkable …  Sandro engages with constitutional theory, analytical jurisprudence, administrative law, and the philosophy of language with ease and rigor. -- Felipe Jiménez, USC Gould School of Law * American Journal of Jurisprudence *\u003cbr\u003eThe book is a real learning experience. If you have accepted some of mainstream legal or political thinking, get ready to have several of your received ideas challenged on a sophisticated level … the book is a worthwhile addition to the literature on a number of key topics in legal theory and democratic theory. -- Barbara Levenbook * JOTWELL *\u003cbr\u003ePacked with interesting ideas. -- Lawrence Solum * Legal Theory Blog *\u003cbr\u003e[This] book ... tackles, with analytical clarity and rigour, an issue that is central to today’s jurisprudential debates: the distinction between law-creation and law-application ... Paolo Sandro puts forward a considerable series of arguments, many of them highly original (and, to my mind, conclusive), that ground the epistemological difference between these two activities and justify their division. His work constitutes, therefore, a major contribution to a fundamental issue: not just in philosophy of law, but in the theory of constitutional democracy as well. * Luigi Ferrajoli, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Law, University of Roma Tre, Italy *\u003cbr\u003eThe book is excellently-sourced, always well-argued, and makes a case for a revival of philosophical interest in some fundamental truisms of legal and political theory: we can no longer assume to understand central concepts such as law-making, separation of powers, discretion, and application of law ... The book is also an exercise in transdisciplinary jurisprudence: here legal theory is in constant dialogue with the empirical findings in other areas of law and beyond. Sandro’s work is relevant, insightful and interesting. * Patricia Mindus, Professor in Practical Philosophy, Uppsala University, Sweden *\u003cbr\u003ePaolo Sandro ... appears to have read everything – and I do mean everything – in legal philosophy, political theory, and the philosophy of language. His book is not, however, a compendium of the views of others. It is, rather, chock full of original and innovative arguments, brought together in a spacious book of uncommon appeal. * Stanley L Paulson, Co-Director of the Hans Kelsen Forschungsstelle, University of Kiel, Germany *\u003cbr\u003eHow does the distinction between creation and application of law bear upon the legitimacy of our constitutional democracies? Bringing the realist’s quandary about the indeterminacy of law to an examination of the conceptual and institutional features of constitutional democracy, Paolo Sandro’s unfailingly erudite yet remarkably accessible book literally has something for everyone in its answer to that question. Its wide-ranging, historically sensitive, and bridge-building analysis makes a compelling case for why a distinction upon which so many assumptions and practices of democratic constitutionalism turn demands a closer look. * Kristen Rundle, Professor of Law, University of Melbourne, Australia *\u003cbr\u003ePaolo Sandro ties together the role of law from its creation through its application to the ideals of constitutionalism and democracy. He systematically breaks down the role of law through a systematic approach that shows the breadth of the topic, while also expanding upon many of the elements necessary for constitutional democracy. * Democracy Paradox *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. Aims and Structure of the Work  1. Law, Power, and Political Authority. On the Scope and Limitations of the Work  I. Introduction  II. Brief Methodological Remarks  III. The Province of the Problem Determined: What is Law?  IV. Politics, Political Power, Political Authority  V. From Powers to Power. The Familiar Tale of the Ineluctability of the State  A. And its Two-pronged Critique: Isonomia and ‘Early’ States  VI. The Conditions of Existence of Political Authority: Insights from the Theory of Normative Orders    2. The Dependence of Constitutional Democracy on the Distinction between Creation and Application of Law  I. Introduction  II. The Contested Relationship between Law and Politics  III. Law as \u003ci\u003elex \u003c\/i\u003eand as \u003ci\u003eius\u003c\/i\u003e: The Duality that Makes Constitutionalism Possible  IV. From Constitutions to Constitutionalism: Narrowing the Focus of Constitutional Theory V. The (Proverbial) Tension between Democracy and Constitutionalism  VI. Modern Constitutionalism as ‘Legal Otherness’  VII. The Two-fold Justificatory Dependence of Constitutional Democracy on the Idea of Application of Law    3. A Critical Evaluation of Moderate Legal Realism  I. Introduction  II. Realism vs Formalism  III. Let Us be Realist about Adjudication. What do Judges Eat for Breakfast?  IV. Realism and Realisms in Law: Meta-theory  V. The Lowest Common Denominator of Legal Realism  VI. The Two Axes of Rule-scepticism  A. Radical-immanent Indeterminacy Thesis  B. Radical-transcendental Indeterminacy Thesis  C. Moderate-immanent Indeterminacy Thesis  D. Moderate-transcendental Indeterminacy Thesis  VII. The Unbearable Lightness of Moderate Scepticism 0 VIII. On the Normativity of Law, and On the Digestion of Judges    4. Towards a Unified Account of Discretion in Law  I. Introduction  II. HLA Hart and the Concept of Discretion. Back to the Future?  III. Dworkin and the (Normative) No-Strong-Discretion Thesis  IV. Discretion as a Pervasive Feature of Kelsen’s \u003ci\u003eStufenbaulehre \u003c\/i\u003e V. Discretion as Balancing in Klatt (and Alexy)  VI. The History of Discretion in the Administrative Domain  VII. Administrative Discretion in Germany  VIII. Discretion in the French-Italian Administrative Tradition IX. The Concept of Discretion in English Administrative Law  X. Towards a Unifi ed Account of Discretion in Law  A. Normative Discretion  B. Interpretive Discretion  XI. Conclusion    5. Law \u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003eLanguage and \u003ci\u003eas \u003c\/i\u003eLanguage. An Alternative Picture of a Multifaceted Relationship  I. Introduction  II. The Communicative Model of Law. A Two-way Affair?  III. Beyond ‘What is Said’. Speech-act Theory and the Rise of Pragmatics in Legal Interpretation  IV. First Objection: Law as Language, Law and Language(s)  V. Second Objection: Speech-act vs Text-act Theory  VI. Legal Texts as ‘Autonomous’ Text-acts  VII. An Alternative Theory of Legal Meaning: Semantic Minimalism  VIII. Prolegomena to a Theory of Legal Interpretation  IX. Conclusion    6. Creation and Application of Law. An Analytical Distinction I. Introduction  II. The Two Extremes: Rejecting vs Assuming the Distinction  III. Kelsen on the Relativity of the Distinction between Creation and Application of Law  IV. Creation of Law: Of the Typicality of Legal Rules  V. The Principle of Legality as a (Semantic) Meta-norm on Law-creation and Law-application  VI. Unpacking the Idea of ‘Application of Law’  VII. The Potential Asymmetry between Norm-following and Norm-application VIII. On the (Different) Normativity of Power-conferring Norms  IX. Can only Officials Apply the Law?  X. Form and Substance. Towards an Analytical Account of Law-application  XI. Conclusion  XII. PS One Final Objection: Interpretation, Interpretation, Interpretation!    7. The Separation of Powers. A Meta-theoretical Reassessment  I. Introduction  II. Genealogical Issues. When was the Separation of Powers ‘Invented’?  III. A Twofold Meta-theoretical Ambiguity Plaguing the Discussion  IV. The Justificatory Debate. Monism vs Pluralism  V. Critical Approaches  VI. The Separation of Powers as a Formal Theory and as a Normative Doctrine. On the Advantages of Maintaining a Strict Distinction  A. The Formal Theory of the Separation or Division of Powers  B. A Normative Doctrine of the Organisation of Political Power Based on the Distinction between Law-creation and Law-application  VII. 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