Andrzej Grabowski Juristic Concept of the Validity of Statutory Law A Critique of Contemporary Legal Nonpositivism Juristic Concept of the Validity of Statutory Law ThiSisaFMBlankPage Andrzej Grabowski Juristic Concept of the Validity of Statutory Law A Critique of Contemporary Legal Nonpositivism Translated by Małgorzata Kiełtyka AndrzejGrabowski FacultyofLawandAdministration,DepartmentofLegalTheory JagiellonianUniversity Krako´w Poland TranslationfromthePolishlanguageedition:PRAWNICZEPOJE˛CIE OBOWIA˛ZYWANIAPRAWASTANOWIONEGO.KRYTYKANIEPOZYTYWISTYCZNEJ KONCEPCJIPRAWA,(c)Ksie˛garniaAkademicka2009.Allrightsreserved. ThebookwaswrittenwithfinancialsupportfromAlexandervonHumboldt- StiftungandthePolishStateCommitteeforScientificResearch(KBN). ThetranslationhasbeenfundedbytheFoundationforPolishScience(FNP). ThepublishingcostswerepartiallycoveredbyAlexandervonHumboldt-Stiftung andtheJagiellonianUniversityinKrako´w. 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ViolationsareliabletoprosecutionundertherespectiveCopyrightLaw. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publicationdoesnotimply,evenintheabsenceofaspecificstatement,thatsuchnamesareexempt fromtherelevantprotectivelawsandregulationsandthereforefreeforgeneraluse. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication,neithertheauthorsnortheeditorsnorthepublishercanacceptanylegalresponsibilityfor anyerrorsoromissionsthatmaybemade.Thepublishermakesnowarranty,expressorimplied,with respecttothematerialcontainedherein. Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) Preface This book was originally published in Polish (Ksie˛garnia Akademicka, Krako´w 2009) under the title Prawnicze poje˛cie obowia˛zywania prawa stanowionego. Krytykaniepozytywistycznejkoncepcjiprawa.Idecidedtointroduceminorchanges andadditionstothePolishtextinordertomakethecontentcomprehensiblefora non-Polish readership. Additionally, I removed those parts that were addressed exclusivelytoPolishreaders. IwouldliketothankSławomiraWronkowska,RobertAlexy,TomaszGizbert- Studnicki, Ulfrid Neumann, Lech Morawski and Marek Zirk-Sadowski for their supportandassistanceinobtainingthefinanceforthetranslationofthisbookinto EnglishandforitssubsequentpublicationbySpringer-Verlag. IexpressmygratitudetoAlexandervonHumboldt-Stiftungforascholarship— whichmadeitpossibleformetoanalyseGermannonpositivism—aswellasforthe financialsupportgivenforthepublicationoftheEnglishversionofthebook.Ialso thankthePolishStateCommitteeforScientificResearch(KBN)foraresearchgrant connectedwithdevelopingthepostpositivistconceptofthevalidityofstatutorylaw andtheFoundationforPolishScience(FNP),whichgrantedasubsidytocoverthe costsoftranslatingthebook. Last but not least, I greatly appreciate the help and accurate editorial guidance provided by Anke Seyfried, who supervised the publication of this book by Springer-Verlag. Krako´w,Poland AndrzejGrabowski April2012 v ThiSisaFMBlankPage Abbreviations AI ArsInterpretandi.Jahrbuchfu¨rjuristischeHermeneutik AIC ArchivumIuridicumCracoviense AI&L ArtificialIntelligenceandLaw AJJ TheAmericanJournalofJurisprudence APhD ArchivesdePhilosophieduDroit APhF ActaPhilosophicaFennica ARG Argumentation ARSP Archivfu¨rRechts-undSozialphilosophie AS Associations.JournalofSocialandLegalTheory AULFI ActaUniversitatisLodziensis–FoliaIuridica AUMCS-G AnnalesUniversitatisMariaeCurie-Skłodowska.SectioG AUNC ActaUniversitatisNicolaiCopernici AUS AnnalesUniversitatisSaraviensis AUW ActaUniversitatisWratislaviensis BMS BibliotekaMys´liSemiotycznej[LibraryofSemioticalThought] CC ColloquiaCommunia CLR CaliforniaLawReview DZPh DeutscheZeitschriftfu¨rPhilosophie D&QP Diritto&questionipubbliche ERK Erkenntnis GSiP GazetaSa˛dowaiPenitencjarna[GazetteofJudiciaryandPenitentiary] GSP Gdan´skieStudiaPrawnicze[Gdan´skLegalStudies] HLR HarvardLawReview IJSL InternationalJournalfortheSemioticsofLaw IS Isonom´ıa JL&S JournalofLawandSociety JPh JournalofPhilosophy JS JuristischeSchulung JZ Juristenzeitung KAR Krakauer-AugsburgerRechtsstudien KiS KulturaiSpołeczen´stwo[CultureandSociety] vii viii Abbreviations KSP KrakowskieStudiaPrawnicze[Krako´wLegalStudies] KVfGR KritischeVierteljahresschriftfu¨rGesetzgebungundRechtswissenschaft LA LogiqueetAnalyse LANS LogiqueetAnalyse(Nouvellese´rie) Lin&Ph LinguisticsandPhilosophy LT LegalTheory L&Ph LawandPhilosophy MLR MichiganLawReview MSPhS MinnesotaStudiesinthePhilosophyofScience M&W ManandWorld NHPh NeueHeftefu¨rPhilosophie NJW NeueJuristischeWochenschrift NP NowePrawo[TheNewLaw] NYULR NewYorkUniversityLawReview OJLS OxfordJournalofLegalStudies OSNC Orzecznictwo Sadu Najwyz˙szego – Izba Cywilna [Records of the SupremeCourtRulings,theCivilChamber] OSNKW Orzecznictwo Sadu Najwyz˙szego – Izba Karna i Wojskowa [Records of the Supreme Court Rulings, the Penal and Military Chamber] OTKZU Orzecznictwo Trybunału Konstytucyjnego. Zbio´r Urze˛dowy [The OfficialCollectionoftheJurisdictionofConstitutionalTribunal] O¨ZO¨R(NF) O¨sterreichischeZeitschriftfu¨ro¨ffentlichesRecht(NeueFolge) PAS ProceedingsoftheAristotelianSociety PhilRev ThePhilosophicalReview PhQ ThePhilosophicalQuarterly PhR PhilosophischeRundschau PhS PhilosophicalStudies PiP Pan´stwoiPrawo[StateandLaw] PL Przegla˛dLegislacyjny[ReviewofLegislation] PNUS´ Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu S´la˛skiego w Katowicach [Scientific WorksoftheSilesianUniversityinKatowice] PrS Protosoziologie PS Przegla˛dSejmowy[ParliamentaryReview] P&PA PhilosophyandPublicAffairs RFKUL Roczniki Filozoficzne Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego [Philosophical Yearbook of the Catholic University in Lublin] RIFD Rivistainternazionaledifilosofiadeldiritto RJ RatioJuris RJBA RevistaJur´ıdicadeBuenosAires RPEiS Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny [Journal of Law, EconomicsandSociology] RPiE RuchPrawniczyiEkonomiczny[JournalofLawandEconomics] RT Rechtstheorie Abbreviations ix SC StudiaCywilistyczne[StudiesonCivilLaw] SF Studiafilozoficzne[PhilosophicalStudies] SFP Studiazfilozofiiprawa[StudiesinLegalPhilosophy] SIS Sistema.Revistadecienciassociales SL StudiaLogica SM StudiaMetodologiczne[MethodologicalStudies] SP StudiaPrawnicze[LegalStudies] SPE StudiaPrawno-Ekonomiczne[StudiesonLawandEconomics] SPhL StudiesinthePhilosophyofLaw SPP StudiaPrawaPrywatnego[StudiesonPrivateLaw] SSL ScandinavianStudiesinLaw VVDS Vero¨ffentlichungenderVereinigungderDeutschenStaatsrechtslehrer YLJ TheYaleLawJournal ZaW Zeitschriftfu¨rallgemeineWissenschaftstheorie ZevK ZeitschriftzumevangielischenKirchenrecht ZNUJPNP Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellon´skiego. Prace z nauk politycznych [Scientific Papers of Jagiellonian University. Studies onPoliticalSciences] ZNUJPP Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellon´skiego. Prace prawnicze [ScientificPapersofJagiellonianUniversity.LegalStudies] ZNUŁNHS ZeszytyNaukoweUniwersytetuŁo´dzkiego.NaukiHumanistyczno- Społeczne[ScientificPapersoftheUniversityofŁo´dz´.Humanistic andSocialSciences] ZphF Zeitschriftfu¨rphilosophischeForschung ZPh&phK Zeitschriftfu¨rPhilosophieundphilosophischeKritik ZSchwR Zeitschriftfu¨rSchweizerischesRecht
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