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Materialisierung, Flexibilisierung, Richterfreiheit

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English summary: General clauses such as good faith and good morals play an increasingly important role as a means of regulation in both civil and common law systems. Nevertheless, because of their vagueness, the task of determining their function and legitimate scope of application poses considerable difficulties for both adjudication and jurisprudence. Against this background, Marietta Auer attempts to show that the function of general clauses in the process of adjudication cannot be rationalized on the basis of the usual methods of jurisprudence alone, but requires a model which takes into account the fundamental shifts in the ethics of private law in the course of the twentieth century. The ethical foundations of private law can be described in the form of three basic value conflicts between individualism and collectivism, between legal certainty and equitable flexibility, and between judicial constraint and judicial freedom, respectively. This book aims to show that these basic antinomies and their immanent tensions are not only present in almost every doctrinal problem of private law, but also provide the necessary background for the development of general clauses. In a more general sense, this book therefore also advocates a change of perspective for legal theory as a whole.

German description: Generalklauseln wie Treu und Glauben oder die Guten Sitten werden in der gegenwartigen Privatrechtsdiskussion meist unter dem Aspekt ihrer naheren Konkretisierung behandelt, die auf die Ableitung praziserer, unmittelbar anwendbarer Rechtssatze gerichtet ist. Marietta Auer hinterfragt diesen Anspruch kritisch und zeigt, dass die Problematik der Generalklauseln nur von einem rechtstheoretischen Blickwinkel angemessen erfasst werden kann. Auf dieser Grundlage erweist sich die Entwicklung der Generalklauseln wahrend des 20. Jahrhunderts sowohl im deutschen als auch im amerikanischen Recht als Ausdruck der das gesamte Privatrechtsdenken pragenden Grundkonflikte zwischen Individualismus und Kollektivismus, Rechtssicherheit und Einzelfallgerechtigkeit sowie zwischen Richterbindung und Richterfreiheit.

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ISBN: 9783161484612
Publication date: 24th February 2005
Author: ANorman Cranin, Michael Klein, Alan M Simons
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 262 pages
Genres: Systems of law: civil codes / civil law