This book investigates one of the oldest questions of legal philosophy -- the relationship between law and legitimacy. It analyses the legal theories of three public lawyers of the Weimar era, Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen, and Hermann Heller.
This study looks at one of the oldest questions in legal philosophy--the relationship between law and legitimacy. Dyzenhaus analyzes the legal theories of three eminent public lawyers of the Weimar era whose theories addressed the problems of legal and political order in a crisis-ridden modern society and demonstrates their relevance to contemporary debates.
The subtle contours ... will repay careful and sustained reading ... scholarly and well written ... a powerful antidote to the sad apologetics still being pandered by those who have sought to promote the work of one of fascism's most intelligent theorists.
