General Principles of Law : : Natural Rights, Legal Methods and System Principles.

• Superior document: Nijhoff Law Specials Series ; v.110
• Author: Rezevska, Daiga.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Nijhoff Law Specials Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 pages)

The book comprises contemporary legal theory pertaining to Democratic States based on the Rule of Law from the perspective of general principles of law. It explains in detail, theoretically and based on the specific case law, the phenomenon of general principles of law - as a source of law and direc...

Table of Contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• 1 Conclusions
• Chapter 2 Understanding and Types of General Principles of Law
• 1 Definition
• 2 The Origin of General Principles of Law and Basic Groups of Meaning of Law
• 2.1 The Origin of the Understanding of General Principles of Law
• 2.2 The Doctrine of Legal Positivism and General Principles of Law
• 2.3 The Doctrine of Natural Law and General Principles of Law
• 2.4 Contemporary Legal Theory Pertaining to Democratic States Based on the Rule of Law and General Principles of Law
• 3 General Principles of Law and Legal Norms
• 4 Types of General Principles of Law
• 4.1 Positivisation of General Principles of Law
• 4.2 Derived and Discovered General Principles of Law
• 5 Conclusions
• Chapter 3 The Axiological Meaning of General Principles of Law
• 1 Meaning of General Principles of Law in the Variety of Sources of Law
• 1.1 Significance of the Variety of Sources of Law in the Western Legal System
• 1.2 Normative Legal Regulation of Sources of Law in Latvia
• 1.3 Division of Sources of Law in Latvia
• 1.4 Hierarchy of Independent Sources of Law in Latvia
• 2 Importance of the General Principles of Law in Drafting Normative Legal Acts
• 3 The Role of General Principles of Law in the Application of Legal Norms
• 4 Conclusions
• Chapter 4 The Functional Effect of General Principles of Law
• 1 Application of General Principles of Law
• 1.1 Deriving, Discovering and Concretization
• 1.2 Solving of Mutual Collisions
• 1.3 Evaluative Subsumption
• 2 The Impact of General Principles of Law on the Application of Written Legal Norms
• 2.1 Collisions and Validity
• 2.2 Interpretation
• 2.3 Further Development of Law
• 2.4 Elaboration of Decision
• 3 Conclusions
• Bibliography.
• Legal Literature
• Case Law
• Legal Acts
• Other
• Index of Names and Subjects
• Back Cover.