Stefano Bertea

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Legal Argumentation Theory and the Concept of Law

F.H. van Eemeren, J.A. Blair, C.A. Willard, and A.F. Snoeck Henkemans (eds.), Anyone Who Has a View. Theoretical Contributions to the Study of Argumentation, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003, 213-226
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 20 Jul 2012
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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The Master Rule, Normativity, and the Institutional Theory of Law

J.E Fossum and A. Menendez, Law and Democracy in Neil MacCormick’s Legal and Political Theory, Dordrecht: Springer, 2011, 69-91
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 19 Jul 2012
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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How Non-Positivism Can Accommodate Legal Certainty

G. Pavlakos (ed.), Law, Rights and Discourse: Themes from the Legal Philosophy of Robert Alexy, Oxford: Hart, 2007, 69-82
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 20 Jul 2012
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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Foreign Precedents in Judicial Argument: A Theoretical Account

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Foreign Precedents in Judicial Argument: A Theoretical Account

University of Leicester School of Law Research Paper No. 14‐20
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 Jul 2014
Stefano Bertea and Claudio Sarra
Leicester Law School and University of Padua
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foreign precedent, legal reasoning, jurisprudence, dialectical rationality, legal authority

Foreign Precedents in Judicial Argument: A Theoretical Account

European Journal Legal Studies, Vol 7, No. 2, 140-179, Winter 2014
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 Jun 2016
Stefano Bertea and Claudio Sarra
Leicester Law School and University of Padua
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Legal Reasoning, jurisprudence, authority, law

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Towards a New Paradigm of Legal Certainty

Legisprudence 2, 2008, 25-45
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 19 Jul 2012
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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A Critique of Inclusive Positivism

Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 93, 2007, 67-81
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 21 Jul 2012
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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MacCormick’s Latest Views of Legal Reasoning and the Positivist Concept of Law

E. Fossum and A. Menendez (eds.), The Post-Sovereign Constellation, Oslo: Arena, 2008, 87-107
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 19 Jul 2012
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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Neil MacCormick’s Theory of Law: A Non-Objectualist Interpretation

Associations 8, 2004, 55-76
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 20 Jul 2012
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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A Foundation for the Conception of Law as Practical Reason

Law and Philosophy, Vol. 34, 2015
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Nov 2015
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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Law, Alexy, Kant, practical reason, foundation

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Remarks on a Legal Positivist Misuse of Wittgenstein Later Philosophy

Law and Philosophy 22, 2003, 513-535
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 21 Jul 2012
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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Law and Obligation: Outlines of a Kantian Argument

NEW ESSAYS ON THE NORMATIVITY OF LAW, pp. 199-218, S. Bertea, G. Pavlakos, eds., Oxford: Hart, 2011
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 20 Jul 2012
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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Introduction to the Normative Claim of Law (Oxford: Hart, 2009)

The Normative Claim of Law, Oxford: Hart, 2009
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 21 Jul 2012
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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Certainty, Reasonableness and Argumentation in Law

Argumentation 18, 2004, 465-478
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 21 Jul 2012
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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Constitutivism and Normativity: A Qualified Defence

Philosophical Explorations (2013) 16/1, p.81-95, University of Leicester School of Law Research Paper No.14-13
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 15 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2014
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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Normativity, practical reason, agency, constitutivism, metaethics

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Looking for Coherence within the European Community

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Looking for Coherence within the European Community

European Law Journal 11, 2005, 154-172
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 19 Jul 2012
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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Looking for Coherence within the European Community

European Law Journal, 11, 154-172, 2005
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 14 Feb 2023
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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Coherence, EU law

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Law, Shared Activities, and Obligation

Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Vol. 27, 357-381, 2014
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 21 Mar 2016
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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Law, Normativiy, Legal Positivism, Shared Agency

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The Arguments from Coherence

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 25, pp. 369-391, 2005
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Jul 2012
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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On Law’s Claim to Authority

Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, Vol. 55, pp. 396-413, 2004
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 20 Jul 2012
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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Legal Form and Agency: Variations on Two Central Themes in Fuller’s Legal Theory

Jurisprudence, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 96-108, 2014
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 Dec 2014
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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Fuller, Agency, Rule of Law, Legality

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Normativity, Human Constitution and Legal Theory

S. Bertea, “Normativity, Human Constitution and Legal Theory”, in B. Brozeck and J. Stelmark (eds.), Studies in the Philosophy of Law, vol. VI: The Normativity of Law, Krakow: Copernicus Center Press, 2011, 99-126
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 16 Sep 2014
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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Normativity, Legal Theory, Constitutivism, Velleman, Korsgaard

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'An Expansionist Model of Legal Reasoning'

in M. De Araujo Kurt and M. Willaschek (eds.), Defeasibility in Law, Berlin, De Gruyter, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 10 Dec 2020
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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Legal theory, legal reasoning, practical reasoning, law, morality

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Critical Remarks on Andrei Marmor’s Theory of Legal Obligation

Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, 42, 2017, 26-46
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 01 Apr 2019
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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Legal Obligation, Law, Reasons, Practical Rationality

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A Problem for the Unambitious View of Legal Normativity

Revus, 37, 2019, 7-13
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 02 Mar 2020
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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legal positivism, normativity, law, morality

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Why One's Practical Reasons Are Not Just One's Own Private Affair

S. Bertea, “Why Practical Reasons Are Not Just One’s Own Private Affair”, Philosophical Inquiry, 41, 2017, 63-85, University of Leicester School of Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 11 Jun 2018
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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practical reasons, practical reasoning, publicity of reasons

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“Contemporary Theories of Legal Obligation: A Tentative Critical Map”

S. Bertea, “Contemporary Theories of Legal Obligation: A Tentative Critical Map”, in S. Bertea (ed.), Contemporary Perspectives on Legal Obligation, Oxford, Routledge, 2021, 1-17
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Mar 2021
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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legal theory, legal philosophy, law, obligation

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Principled Disobedience as Legal Obligation

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2022/02
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 19 Dec 2022
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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principled disobedience, legal obligation, Kant, Dworkin, civil disobedience

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‘Fondazione Della Ragione Pratica, Diritto E Teoria Del Discorso’ (Foundation of Practical Reason and Discourse Theory)

S. Bertea, “Fondazione della ragione pratica, diritto e teoria del discorso”, Diritto e Questioni Pubbliche 15, 2015, 239-260, University of Leicester School of Law Research Paper No. 17-4
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 25 Oct 2016
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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Legal philosophy, Theory of practical Rationality, Robert Alexy, Christine Korsgaard

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Social-Practice Legal Positivism and The Normativity Thesis

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Nov 2021
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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legal positivism, normativity, law

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Dialettica Del Precedente (A Dialectical Theory of Precedents)

S. Bertea & C. Sarra, “Dialettica del precedente”, Ars Interpretandi, 2016, 5, 13-45
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 27 Feb 2018
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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precedent, legal adjudication, legal theory, theory of legal reasoning

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Contemporary Theories of Legal Obligation: A Tentative Critical Map

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 16 Jun 2022
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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legal obligation, legal philosophy

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Giuspubblicismo inglese e concezione costituzionalista del diritto (Legal Constitutionalism in English Public Law)

Diritto e Questioni Pubbliche, Vol. 16, p. 39-53, 2016
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 07 Jun 2017
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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Constitutionalism, Legal Philosophy, Dworkin, Law

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Coherentism and Foundationalism in the Practical Domain

The final version of this paper was published as S. Bertea, “Coherentism and Foundationalism in the Practical Domain”, Jurisprudence, 7, 2016, 365-375
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 24 Oct 2017
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School
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coherence, coherentism, practical rationality

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The Arguments from Coherence: Analysis and Evaluation

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 25, No 3, pp. 369-391, 2005
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Stefano Bertea
Leicester Law School

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Concorrenza o Cooperazione? (Competition or Cooperation?)

Diritto e questioni pubbliche 5, 2005, 44-65
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 21 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2020
Stefano Bertea and Margo Braga
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