Alexy studied law and philosophy at the University of Göttingen. He received his J.D. in 1976 with the dissertation A Theory of Legal Argumentation, and he achieved his Habilitation in 1984 with a Theory of Constitutional Rights.
In The Argument From Injustice, Alexy defends Radbruch's formula that injust or evil laws only lose their legal validity when they deliberately disavow justice and equality. He formulated law's relationship to morality on three theses:
The thesis of incorporation; each legal system contains principles.
The moral thesis; law must be related to a common moral.
The correctness thesis; law must be related to a just moral.
At the heart of his theory is the claim to correctness: Law must necessarily claim to be correct, no matter how corrupt, lest it be self-contradictory and fundamentally illogical. As law coerces behaviour and gives individuals decisive reasons for acting, the correctness it claims must also be moral.
Publications
Theorie der juristischen Argumentation. Die Theorie des rationalen Diskurses als Theorie der juristischen Begründung (Suhrkamp, 1983; first edition 1978)
Translated by Neil MacCormick as "A Theory of Legal Argumentation: The Theory of Rational Discourse as Theory of Legal Justification" (Clarendon, 1989)
Theorie der Grundrechte (Suhrkamp, 1985; second edition 1994)
Translated by Julian Rivers as "A Theory of Constitutional Rights" (Oxford University Press, 2002)
Mauerschützen (Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht, 1993)
Recht, Vernunft, Diskurs (Suhrkamp, 1995)
Der Beschluß des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zu den Tötungen an der innerdeutschen Grenze vom 24. Oktober 1996 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1997)
Begriff und Geltung des Rechts (Verlag Karl Alber, 1992)
Translated by Stanley Paulson and Bonnie Litschewski Paulson as "The Argument from Injustice: A Reply to Legal Positivism" (Oxford University Press, 2002)
Elemente einer juristischen Begründungslehre, co-edited with Hans-Joachim Koch, Lothar Kuhlen and Helmut Rüßmann (Nomos, 2003)
Further reading
George Pavlakos (ed), Law, Rights and Discourse: The Legal Philosophy of Robert Alexy (Hart Publishing, 2007)
Matthias Klatt (ed), Institutionalized Reason: The Jurisprudence of Robert Alexy (Oxford University Press, 2012)
References
^"Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Robert Alexy". CAU. Retrieved 22 January 2011.
^"Mitglieder". University of Göttingen. Retrieved 22 January 2011.
^"Professor Robert Alexy erhält das Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse" (in German). Christian-Albrechts-Universität. 20 April 2010. Retrieved 22 January 2011.
^"CV Professor Robert Alexy" (in German). Christian-Albrechts-Universität. 9 December 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
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