Exploring the Boundaries of Law

This book presents a pluri-dimensional approach to today's most relevant perspectives on the boundaries of Law, both in terms of its creation and performance, in order to discuss its current meaning and role as a normative order. To do so, it presents a broad range of standpoints concerning philosophical, theoretical, juridical-political, dogmatic and methodological issues, and proposes new bases for the construction and effectiveness of legal statements and decisions, from those issued by juridical-political organisations to those taken by judges. In addition, it sheds new light on discussions concerning the juridical and political role of Law in connection with public policy and democracy-related issues, especially contemporary debates between International Law and Human Rights Law, on the one hand, and between Public Law and Private Law, on the other.

Ana Margarida Simões Gaudêncio, Introduction: Exploring the Boundaries of Law – Meta-Dogmatic Bows on the Limits of Law: Outside in and Inside out.- Part I - Architecturally internal and external boundaries of/within Law.- José Manuel Aroso Linhares, The four doors to panjuridi(ci)sm and the question about the limits of Law: returning to a rarely frequented topos.- Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio, The Limits of Law, a Double Meaning.- José de Sousa e Brito, Public policy (ordre publique) and ius cogens as topoi of the question about the limits of law.- José de Faria Costa, L’espace libre du droit: une limite immanente au droit.- Part II - Reflexively axiological frontiers of/in Law.- Manuel Atienza, Le post-positivisme et les limites du droit.- Valerio Nitrato Izzo, The Duty and Right to Justification in Legal Dilemmas.- Leandro Rocha Jacondino, Justice speaks: encounters with difference, plurality, and law.- Ana Margarida Simões Gaudêncio, Legal validity within the limits of law: reflections on the frontier(s) between juridicity and ajuridicity.- Part III - Philosophical heritages on/to Law’s delimitations.- Mateusz Stepien, On the limits of the law from the Confucian perspective.- Sérgio Mascarenhas, Law Within the Bounds of the Sensible World, a Kantian Perspective.- Part IV - Between Law and Politics: The Institutionalization of Constitutionalism and Democracy as frontlines of/to Law.- Ana Raquel Gonçalves Moniz, Le gardien de la Constitution revisité: entre le politique et le juridique.- Ewa Nowak, Renetta Bos, Tomasz Bekrycht, Natalia Danilkina, Kay Hemmerling, Ilija Manasiev, Yuliya Khvatsik, Roma Kriauciuniene, Birden Güngören Bulgan, Lukasz Pohl, Barbara Janusz-Pohl, Pawel Mazur, Conceptualizing extended jurisprudential competence of legal professionals to uphold the democratic rule of law. Recent study on law students’ moral competence development from six European countries.- Part V - Outer discourses as edges of/to Law.- Beatriz Barreiro Carril, Ziad Doueiri’s “The insult” or The Limits of Law: Theatre, Memory and International Cultural Rights.- Gabriele Aroni, Who Owns the (Virtual) View? The Copyright Boundaries of Digital Games Images.- Part VI - Adjudication between inner and outer limits in/to Law.- Fernando José Bronze, Les cas-ornithorynque: présupposés d’intelligibilité, caractérisation sommaire, solution de base proposée.- Tulishree Pradhan, Progress or Regress through Media Freedom: A Due Process to Protect Liberty.- Terezie Smejkalova, The outer limits of the judicial trial.- Part VII - Human rights as matters of Law and/or beyond Law.- Plínio Pacheco Oliveira, Cultural (In)justice, Human Rights, and the Limits of Pluralism.- Miguel Régio de Almeida, The limits of legal imagination: Revising Philosophy of Human Rights’ foundational Events and Myths.

Ana Margarida Simões Gaudêncio (PhD in Law – Philosophy of Law) is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (Portugal), integrated researcher and member of the Coordinating Board of UCILeR (University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research), and a founding member of the Portuguese Association for Theory and Philosophy of Law and for Social Philosophy (the Portuguese section of the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, or IVR). Her main research and teaching areas are Philosophy of Law, Theory of Law, and Methodology of Law, mostly on Critical Legal Studies, Tolerance and Law, Multiculturalism and Law, and Human Rights Law.