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Some Problems with Robert Alexy's Account of Legal Validity: The Relevance of the Participant's Perspective *
Author(s) -
GAIDO PAULA
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9337.2012.00519.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , relevance (law) , privilege (computing) , epistemology , sociology , law , philosophy , political science , computer science , artificial intelligence
This article examines Robert Alexy's account of legal validity. It concludes that Alexy's account of legal validity lacks sufficient support given the author's methodological commitments. To reach that conclusion, it assesses the plausibility of simultaneously maintaining that the participant's perspective has conceptual privilege in the explanation of the nature of law, that legal discourse is a special case of general practical discourse, and that unjust considerations can be legally valid norms.