Theory of the Judicial Process: The Establishment of Facts

Introduction, Presuppositions of legal theory & practice, Fact & its approach in philosophy & in law, Imputative character of the judicial establishment of facts, Judicial establishment of facts & its procedurality, Nature of the judicial establishment of facts; APPENDIX ‘Kelsen’s Theory of Law-application (Evolution, Ambiguities, Open Questions)’ [1986/c] 165–201, ‘Judicial Reproduction of the Law in an Autopoietical System?’ [1987/a] 203–213; w/ Bibliography, Indexes of names, of normative materials & Index; POSTFACES ‘An Investigation into the Nature of the Judicial Process’ in Auf dem Weg zur Idee der Gerechtigkeit (LIT Verlag 2009) and ‘What is to Come after Legal Positivisms are Over? in Theorie des Rechts und der Gesellschaft (Duncker & Humblot 2003); Indexes