Immanence and Transcendence: History's Roles in Normative Legal Theory

CONNECTING POSITIVE AND NoRMATIvE LEGAL THEORY

Positive and normative legal theory often seem to have little to do with one another. Part I describes the disconnect and suggests that it arises from two sources: the gap between fact and value, and the gap between external and internal perspectives on law. In the following Parts, I lay out a repertoire of strategies and mechanisms for connecting positive and normative legal theory. Part II ex...

Self-expansiveness and Self-contraction: Complementary Processes of Transcendence and Immanence

Friedman’s (1981, 1983) transpersonal cartography of self-expansiveness places the individual self-concept in a central position at the intersection of temporal and spatial dimensions. This map can be inverted, however, by placing transcendent consciousness in the center, creating a new cartography that is equally viable. Juxtaposing the original version (depicting the individual self as emergi...

Obsolescence and Immanence in Penal Theory and Policy

Extracting Normative Content from Legal Texts

Interoperability is a crucial issue, as large scale applications mainly depend on the possibility of mapping and connecting different models and structures. In the context of public services organization, achieving interoperability among public sector information means, on the one hand (back office), enabling dialogue among public offices, sharing data, standardising structures and models, conn...

Toward A Normative Theory of Normative Marketing Theory

We show how different approaches to developing marketing strategies depend on the type of environment a firm faces, where environments are distinguished in terms of their systems properties rather than their content. Particular emphasis is given to turbulent environments in which outcomes are not a priori predictable and are not traceable to individual firm actions and we show that, in these co...