Metaethical Issues in Contemporary Legal Philosophy

This volume explores the importance of constitutivism for legal studies. Constitutivism is the view that the normative force or authority of practical reasons is grounded in principles capacities aims or functions that are essential to and thus constitutive of agency. While the implications that the constitutivist approach has on the fundamental metaethical disputes and central ethical debates have been extensively explored the literature on the relations between constitutivism and law remains scarce unsystematic and sporadic. This collection brings together world-renowned practical philosophers and legal theorists to fill a noticeable gap in the literature. The authors systematically and innovatively address key dimensions of the relationships between constitutivism and the theoretical study of law as well as programmatically offering novel insights into the conceptual connections between constitutivist claims fundamental legal concepts and practices legal issues and ultimately the law as a distinctive concept. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of Legal Philosophy Legal Theory Jurisprudence Moral Philosophy and Metaethics.Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at taylor-francis under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at taylorfrancis under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.