Robert Alexy - Wikipedia Robert Alexy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral. Please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable, independent, third-party sources. (June 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Robert Alexy Born (1945-09-09) 9 September 1945 (age 75) Oldenburg, Germany Nationality Germany Alma mater University of Göttingen Awards Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2010) Scientific career Fields Law Institutions University of Kiel Doctoral advisor Ralf Dreier Doctoral students Mattias Kumm Robert Alexy (born 9 September 1945 in Oldenburg, Germany) is a jurist and a legal philosopher. Alexy studied law and philosophy at the University of Göttingen. He received his PhD in 1976 with the dissertation A Theory of Legal Argumentation, and he achieved his Habilitation in 1984 with a Theory of Constitutional Rights. He is a professor at the University of Kiel[1] and in 2002 he was appointed to the Academy of Sciences and Humanities at the University of Göttingen.[2] In 2010 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.[3] Since 2008 the Universities of Alicante, Buenos Aires, Tucumán, Antwerp, National University of San Marcos in Lima, Prague, Coimbra, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte, Chapecó, Rio de Janeiro and Bogotá awarded him the honorary doctorate degree.[4] Contents 1 Natural law theory 2 Publications 3 Further reading 4 References Natural law theory[edit] This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. Find sources: "Robert Alexy" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Alexy's definition of law looks like a mix of Kelsen's normativism (which was an influential version of legal positivism) and Radbruch's legal naturalism (Alexy, 2002), but Alexy's theory of argumentation (Alexy, 1983) puts him very close to legal interpretivism. In The Argument From Injustice, Alexy defends Radbruch's formula that injust or evil laws only lose their legal validity when they deliberately disavow justice and equality. He formulated law's relationship to morality on three theses: The thesis of incorporation; each legal system contains principles. The moral thesis; law must be related to a common moral. The correctness thesis; law must be related to a just moral. At the heart of his theory is the claim to correctness: Law must necessarily claim to be correct, no matter how corrupt, lest it be self-contradictory and fundamentally illogical. As law coerces behaviour and gives individuals decisive reasons for acting, the correctness it claims must also be moral. Publications[edit] Theorie der juristischen Argumentation. Die Theorie des rationalen Diskurses als Theorie der juristischen Begründung (Suhrkamp, 1983; first edition 1978) Translated by Neil MacCormick as "A Theory of Legal Argumentation: The Theory of Rational Discourse as Theory of Legal Justification" (Clarendon, 1989) Theorie der Grundrechte (Suhrkamp, 1985; second edition 1994) Translated by Julian Rivers as "A Theory of Constitutional Rights" (Oxford University Press, 2002) Mauerschützen (Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht, 1993) Recht, Vernunft, Diskurs (Suhrkamp, 1995) Der Beschluß des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zu den Tötungen an der innerdeutschen Grenze vom 24. Oktober 1996 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1997) Begriff und Geltung des Rechts (Verlag Karl Alber, 1992) Translated by Stanley Paulson and Bonnie Litschewski Paulson as "The Argument from Injustice: A Reply to Legal Positivism" (Oxford University Press, 2002) Elemente einer juristischen Begründungslehre, co-edited with Hans-Joachim Koch, Lothar Kuhlen and Helmut Rüßmann (Nomos, 2003) Further reading[edit] George Pavlakos (ed), Law, Rights and Discourse: The Legal Philosophy of Robert Alexy (Hart Publishing, 2007) Matthias Klatt (ed), Institutionalized Reason: The Jurisprudence of Robert Alexy (Oxford University Press, 2012) References[edit] ^ "Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Robert Alexy". CAU. Retrieved 22 January 2011. ^ "Mitglieder". University of Göttingen. Retrieved 22 January 2011. ^ "Professor Robert Alexy erhält das Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse" (in German). Christian-Albrechts-Universität. 20 April 2010. Retrieved 22 January 2011. ^ "CV Professor Robert Alexy" (in German). 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