This book provides a new and wide-ranging study of law's normativity, examining conceptual, descriptive and empirical dimensions of this perennial philosophical issue. It also contains essays concerned with, among other issues, the relationship between semantic and legal normativity; methodological concerns pertaining to understanding normativity; normativity and legal interpretation; and normativity as it pertains to transnational law. The contributors come not only from the usual Anglo-American and Western European community of legal theorists, but also from Latin American and Eastern European communities, representing a diversity of perspectives and points of view - including essays from both analytic and continental methodologies. With this range of topics, the book will appeal to scholars in transnational law, legal sociology, normative legal philosophy concerned with problems of state legitimacy and practical rationality, as well as those working in general jurisprudence. It comprises a highly important contribution to the study of law's normativity.

PART IMETHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING NORMATIVITY1. Is Moralised Jurisprudence Redundant?Dimitrios Kyritsis2. The Metric Approach to Legal Normativity Triantafyllos Gkouvas PART IION THE NATURE OF LEGAL NORMATIVITY/LEGAL OBLIGATION3. The Nature of Legal ObligationBrian H Bix4. The Problems of Legal Normativity and Legal Obligation Kenneth Einar Himma5. Non-naturalism, Normativity and the Meaning of Ought: Some Lessons from Kelsen George Pavlakos PART IIINORMS AS REASONS FOR ACTION6. Norms, Reasons, and the Law Andrei Marmor7. Normative Reasoning From a Point of View WJ Waluchow8. Legal Reasons and Upgrading Reasons Horacio Spector PART IVNORMATIVITY AND LEGAL REASONING9. Normativity of Basic Rules of Legal Interpretation Bojan Spaic10. Another Way to Meet Hart's Challenge Andrej Kristan11. The Constraining Force of Analogies and the Role of the Judge Katharina Stevens PART VLEGAL NORMATIVITY BEYOND THE STATE12. What Makes a Transnational Rule of Law? Understanding the Logos and Values of Human Action in Transnational Law Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco13. Theorising 'Unidentified Normative Objects' of Global Regulatory Regimes Miodrag Jovanovic