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Unlocking legal validity. Some remarks on the artificial ontology of law (2018)
Book Chapter
Sandro, P. (2018). Unlocking legal validity. Some remarks on the artificial ontology of law. In J. Hage, P. Westerman, & S. Kirste (Eds.), Legal Validity and Soft Law (99-123). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77522-7_5

Following Kelsen’s influential theory of law, the concept of validity has been used in the literature to refer to different properties of law (such as existence, membership, bindingness, and more) and so it is inherently ambiguous. More importantly,... Read More about Unlocking legal validity. Some remarks on the artificial ontology of law.

To whom does the law speak? Canvassing a neglected picture of law’s interpretive field (2014)
Book Chapter
Sandro, P. (2015). To whom does the law speak? Canvassing a neglected picture of law’s interpretive field. In M. Araszkiewicz, P. Banas, T. Gizbert-Studnicki, & K. Pleszka (Eds.), Problems of Normativity, Rules and Rule-Following (265-280). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09375-8_20

Among the most common strategies underlying the so-called indeterminacy thesis is the following two-step argument: (1) that law is an interpretive practice, and that evidently legal actors more generally hold different (and competing) theories of mea... Read More about To whom does the law speak? Canvassing a neglected picture of law’s interpretive field.