Institutional Legal Facts

Preface. 1: The Concept of Legal Systems. I. Legal Validity. II. Basic Norm versus Rule of Recognition. III. The Formal Structure of Legal Systems. IV. Widening the Concept of Legal Systems. 2: Speech Acts. I. Major Concepts of Speech Act Theory. II. Declarative Speech Acts. III. Commitments as Presentations. IV. Presentations of Attempts and Purposes. V. Classification of Declarative Speech Acts. 3: Acts-in-the-Law. I. Testing the Classification of Declarative Speech Acts. II. Norms of Competence. 4: Negative Acts-in-the-Law. I. Illocutionary Denegation. II. Revocation and Invalidation. 5: Logical Relations between Legal Norms. I. Legal Norms. II. Acts-in-the-Law. 6: General Norms and Rules. I. General Norms and Rules of Conduct. II. General Norms and Rules. III. Abstract Acts-in-the-Law. 7: Legal Institutions. I. From Institutional Legal Fact to Legal Institution. II. Institutions and Legal Systems. Appendix A. Appendix B. Bibliography. Index of Names. Index of Subjects.