Legal Power and Legal Competence: Meaning, Normativity, Officials and Theories (Law and Philosophy Library, 140)

This comprehensive volume explores the concepts of legal power and legal competence in 14 original, cutting-edge chapters by leading legal theorists.

Covering five broad themes, the book delves into open questions on the meaning of legal power and legal competence, as well as problems regarding their normativity.

The third section specifically examines the relationship between legal power and constitutive norms, while the fourth focuses on the analysis of legal officials and legal offices.

Finally, the fifth and final section assesses various theories of legal power and legal competence.

With a foreword by renowned legal scholar, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of legal power and legal competence.