This book establishes legisprudence, in contrast to jurisprudence, as a legal theory of rational law-making. It suggests that by rejecting the common wisdom about the nature of political law-making, l
The essays collected in this book address legislation from the viewpoint of legal theory and provide an overview of current research in legisprudence as a new scholarly approach to lawmaking. The over
This bookexplores the constitutional, legally binding dimension to legisprudence in thelight of the German Federal Constitutional Court´s approach to rationallawmaking. Over the last decades this cour
Legisprudence, says Wintgens (European Academy of Legal Theory; Center of Legislation, Regulation, and Legisprudence; U. of Brussels, Belgium), is an interdisciplinary legal theory of rational legisla