In recent decades, legal theory has focused almost completely on norms, rules and arguments as the constitutive elements of law. This is the only recent book on the market with legal concepts as its central theme, and it aims to initiate a debate on the topic.

The only recent book on the market with legal concepts as its central theme State-of-the-art discussion of theories of meaning as applied to the law Selected papers from the IVR-2007 special workshop on Legal concepts in Cracow

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An Essay on Legal Concept Formation.- About Concepts in Law.- Understanding and Applying Legal Concepts: An Inquiry on Inferential Meaning.- The Meaning of Legal Status Words.- Explicating the Concept of Legal Competence.- The Influence of Normative Reasons on the Formation of Legal Concepts.- The Hand of Midas: When Concepts Turn Legal, or Deflating the Hart-Dworkin Debate.- After Conceptual Analysis: The Rise of Practice Theory.