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The Stahl Project: Recovering the Principles of Christian Jurisprudence
Judicial activism... the application of foreign law...the evaporation of traditional values from the law and from the courtroom... legislation being struck down in the name of supposed rights... the transferral of sovereignty to world courts...
These are all issues which hit us right where we stand. They leave us with a feeling of helplessness. How are we to deal with them?
One thing may reassure us: we are not the first. These issues are not new; in fact, they were already confronted head on more than a hundred years ago by a far-seeing German statesman and legal scholar by the name of Friedrich Julius Stahl. Stahl mapped out a conservative Christian legal philosophy harvesting the fruits of the Western legal tradition. His treatment makes them available to a new generation unschooled in its own inheritance.
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Stahl returns us to a common-law-oriented jurisprudence integrating custom and legislation, justice and law, rights and institutions, the received historical law and the needs of the here and now, considerations of utility and God-ordained universal standards. He opens the door to restoring the balance between individual rights and an objective legal order which both conditions and protects those rights. He returns us to a jurisprudence respecting the law of nature and nature's God, one which fleshes out the conservative principles first enunciated by Edmund Burke.
Stahl's philosophy of law in fact represents the pinnacle of conservative legal thought, and is the greatest work by a conservative legal scholar ever written.
The Philosophy of Law, Stahl's magnum opus, is now for the first time being offered in translation by WordBridge Publishing. The first installment is the Principles of Law, providing the core principles to be fleshed out in the remainder of the series. The second installment, Private Law, provides a detailed exposition of the doctrine of subjective right, natural and acquired rights, and the institutions of private law: property, contract, marriage and the family, inheritance.
The individual volumes are:
| Vol. I: The History of Legal Philosophy |
Published |
| Vol. II: The Doctrine of Law and State on the Basis of the Christian World-View | |
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April 1st 2008 |
Book II: Principles of Law |
Now Available |
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Now Available |
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January 1st 2008 |