Constitutionalism and Legal Reasoning

<P>Preface.</P>
<P><STRONG>Part&nbsp;I: Law as Constitution.</STRONG> <BR><EM><STRONG>1. Rhetoric and Practical Reason</STRONG>.</EM> <STRONG>1.1.</STRONG> Two Paradigms of Right Reasoning. <STRONG>1. 2.</STRONG> From Fundamental Law to Social Contract and Self-Institution. <STRONG>1. 3.</STRONG> Modern Constitutionalism.<BR><STRONG><EM>2. Constitutionalism and Legal Positivism.</EM> 2.1.</STRONG> Law as Fact. <STRONG>2.2.</STRONG> Legislation and Sovereignty.&nbsp;<STRONG>2.3.</STRONG> The Raise of German Public Law.&nbsp;<STRONG>2.4. </STRONG>Legal Positivism and Constitutionalism. <BR><STRONG><EM>3. From State Law to Constitutional State, or, from Herrschaft to "Discourse".</EM> 3.1.</STRONG> Normativity and Facticity.&nbsp;<STRONG>3.2.</STRONG> Normativism, Institutionalism, Decisionism.&nbsp;<STRONG>3.3.</STRONG> "Wille zur Verfassung", Will of Constitution.&nbsp;</P>
<P><STRONG>Part II: Legal Argumentation and Concepts of Law. <BR><EM>1.</EM></STRONG><EM> </EM><STRONG><EM>Rhetoric and Practical Reason. </EM>1.1.</STRONG> Two Paradigms of Right Reasoning.&nbsp;<STRONG>1.2.</STRONG> Theoretical Versus Practical Rationality.<BR><STRONG><EM>2. Legal Reasoning Redeemed.</EM>&nbsp;2.1.</STRONG> Rehabilitation of Practical Reason: the Topic. <STRONG>2.2.</STRONG> The "New Rhetoric" School.&nbsp;<STRONG>2.3.</STRONG> Philosophical Hermeneutics. <BR><STRONG><EM>3.Contemporary Doctrines.</EM> 3.1.</STRONG> Neil MacCormick’s Formalist Model. <STRONG>3.2.</STRONG> Ronald Dworkin’s Interpretive Turn. <STRONG>3.3.</STRONG> Discourse Theory. <BR><EM><STRONG>4.</STRONG> </EM><STRONG><EM>Law as Discourse and Constitution.</EM> 4.1.</STRONG> Morality Reconnected to Law. <STRONG>4.2.</STRONG> A New Model of Democracy.</P>
<P><STRONG>Part III: The Practice of Law and Legal Ethics. <BR><EM>1. "Jurists, bad Christians".&nbsp;</EM>1.1.</STRONG> Lawyers According to the Tradition.&nbsp;<STRONG>1.2.</STRONG> The Legal Positivist Myth. <STRONG>1.3.</STRONG> Plato, Kant and Modern Jurisprudence. <BR><STRONG><EM>2. Ambiguity of Deontological Rules.</EM>&nbsp;2.1.</STRONG> Deontological Codes. <STRONG>2.2. </STRONG>Civil law and Common Law. <BR><STRONG>3.</STRONG> <STRONG><EM>Two Opposed Paradigms.</EM>&nbsp;3.1.</STRONG> The Legalistic Approach. <STRONG>3.2.</STRONG> The Moralistic Approach. <BR><STRONG><EM>4. Legal Ethics and the Concept of Law.</EM>&nbsp;4.1. </STRONG>The "Moral Amorality" Thesis.&nbsp;<STRONG>4.2.</STRONG> The "Full Morality" Thesis.<STRONG>&nbsp;4.3.</STRONG> A Pragmatist Alternative and the Radbruch Formula. <BR>Epilogue. <BR>Appendix A: Natural Law: "Exclusive" Versus "Inclusive". Appendix B: Robert Alexy's Constitutional Rights Theory.</P>