Ralf Poscher

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Ambiguity and Vagueness in Legal Interpretation

OXFORD HANDBOOK ON LANGUAGE AND LAW, Lawrence Solan & Peter Tiersma, eds., Oxford University Press, 2011
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 31 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2011
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Vagueness, Ambiguity, Interpretation, Law, Indeterminacy, Sorites Paradox, Supervaluation, Borderline Cases

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The Principle Theory: How Many Theories and What is Their Merit?

INSTITUTIONALIZING REASON. PERSPECTIVES ON THE LEGAL PHILOSOPHY OF ROBERT ALEXY, M. Klatt, ed., New York: Oxford University Press, Forthcoming, pp. 218-247, 2012
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 29 May 2009 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2020
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Robert Alexy, Ronald Dworkin, Josef Esser, legal principles, fundamental rights, principle theory, legal theory, constitutional law, balancing, subsumption, theory of argumentation, theory of adjudication, impartiality

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Hermeneutics, Jurisprudence and Law

Jeff Malpas and Hans-Helmuth Gander (eds.), Routledge Companion to Philosophical Hermeneutics, pp. 207-228, 2015
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2020
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legal interpretation, legal construction, rule following, hermeneutics, textualism, originalism, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Francis Lieber, Emilio Betti, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, Ronald Dworkin, Michael Moore

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The Hermeneutics of Law: An Analytical Model for a Complex General Account

Michael Forster/Kristin Gjesdal (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics, CUP, pp. 326-353, 2019
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 05 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2020
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Barthes, Betti, Davidson, Gadamer, Grice, Hart, Heidegger, Kant, Kelsen, Kripke, Lieber, Savigny, Wittgenstein, legal interpretation, legal construction, discretion, association, significance, rule-following, easy cases, hard cases, intentionalism, originalism, semantic meaning, pragmatic meaning

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Artificial Intelligence and the Right to Data Protection

The Cambridge Handbook of Responsible Artificial Intelligence. Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Silja Voeneky, Philipp Kellmeyer, Oliver Mueller, Wolfram Burgard. Cambridge University Press 2022, p. 281–289, DOI: 10.1017/9781009207898.022, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2021/03
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 12 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2022
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AI, Artificial Intelligence, right to data protection, privacy, fundamental rights, right to informational self-determination, law and innovation

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The Hand of Midas: When Concepts Turn Legal or Deflating the Hart-Dworkin Debate

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2021
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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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Legal Theory, Positivism, Hart-Dworkin Debate, Law and Morality, Adjudication

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Why We Argue About the Law: An Agonistic Account of Legal Disagreement

Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki/Adam Dyrda/Pawel Banas (eds.), Metaphilosophy of Law, Hart Publishing, pp. 191-226, 2016
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2020
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legal disagreement, one right answer theories, Dworkin, Moore, Habermas

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The Hermeneutical Character of Legal Construction

Simone Glanert and Fabien Girard (eds), Law’s Hermeneutics: Other Investigations, pp 207-228, London: Routledge, 2017
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2020
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legal interpretation, legal construction, hermeneutics, legislative intent, rule of law, law and truth, Gadamer, Dworkin, Kelsen,

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Theory of a Phantom: The Principles Theory's Futile Quest for its Object

in: Alexy’s Theory of Law, J. A. de Oliveira / S. L. Paulson /A. T. G. Trivisonno (ARSP-Beiheft 144), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 08 Feb 2015
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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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Robert Alexy, Ronald Dworkin, legal rules, legal principles, fundamental rights, principles theory, legal theory, constitutional law, balancing, subsumption, optimization

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The Common Error in Theories of Adjudication: An Inferentialist Argument for a Doctrinal Conception

Janet Giltrow/Dieter Stein (eds.), The Pragmatic Turn in Law. Inference and Interpretation in Legal Discourse, Mouton 2017, pp. 307-334, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2017
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hard cases, adjudication, Hart, Kelsen, Dworkin, Geny, Ehrlich, legal realism, critical legal studies, naturalism, Luhmann, Weber, Brandom, inferentialism, Lewis, free-law-movement

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Interpretation and Rule Following in Law. The Complexity of Easy Cases

in: Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki, Krzysztof Płeszka, Michał Araszkiewicz, Paweł Banas (ed.), Problems of Normativity, Rules and Rule Following, Springer (Law and Philosophy Library, vol. 111), 2015, pp.281-294.
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 21 May 2014 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2015
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easy cases, rule following, legal interpretation, understanding, legal positivism, legal construction, Hart, Fuller, rule following

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The Normative Construction of Legislative Intent

Droit & Philosophie, Annuaire de l‘ Institut Michel Villey, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 31 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2021
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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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Group Agency, Collective Intentionality, Legal Construction, Legal Interpretation, Legal Hermeneutics, Hermeneutics, Grice, Davidson, Raz

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Proportionality and the Bindingness of Fundamental Rights

“Proportionality in Crime Control and Criminal Justice”, E. Billis/N. Knust/J.P. Rui (eds.), 2021, Hart Publishing, pp. 49–68. DOI: 10.5040/9781509938636.ch-003, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2021/02
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 02 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2024
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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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constitutional theory, constitutional law, proportionality, fundamental rights, human rights, evaluative reason, incommensurability

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The Hermeneutics of Legal Precedent

To appear in: Timothy Endicott, Sebastian Lewis, Hafsteinn Dan Kristjánsson (eds.), "Philosophical Foundations of Precedent", OUP 2022 Forthcoming, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2022/01
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 01 Mar 2022
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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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legal hermeneutics, legal interpretation, legal construction, intentionalism, analogy, rules

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Human Dignity as a Value and a Right. The German Case

To appear as “Human Dignity” in: Matthias Herdegen, Johannes Masing, Ralf Poscher and Klaus Ferdinand Gärditz (eds.), Constitutional Law in Germany (C.H. Beck 2024, forthcoming), Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2024/1
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 05 Mar 2024
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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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human dignity, fundamental rights, human rights, German Constitution, Grundgesetz, absolute rights, constitutional law, constitutional theory

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Resuscitation of a Phantom? On Robert Alexy’s Latest Attempt to Save His Concept of Principle

Published in 2020 in Ratio Juris 33(2), 134-149, under an open access license (CC BY-NC-ND). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/raju.12286, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2020/01
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 18 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2024
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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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Robert Alexy, Ronald Dworkin, legal rules, legal principles, fundamental rights, principles theory, legal theory, constitutional law, balancing, subsumption, optimization

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The Ultimate Force of the Law: On the Essence and Precariousness of the Monopoly on Legitimate Force

Ratio Juris, Vol. 27, Issue 3, 2016, pp. 311-322
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 10 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2016
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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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Max Weber, Spinoza, Second Amendment, theory of the state, constitutional theory