Law and Public Affairs (three credit hours)

In early 1617 Grotius debated the question of giving counter-remonstrants the chance to evangelise in the Kloosterkerk in The Hague which had been closed. During this time lawsuits were introduced towards the States of Holland by counter-remonstrant ministers and riots over the controversy broke out in Amsterdam. The new peace would transfer the folks’s focus to the controversy and Arminius’ followers.[quotation wanted] Grotius performed a decisive part on this politico-spiritual battle between the Remonstrants, supporters of religious tolerance, and the orthodox Calvinists or Counter-Remonstrants. In 1598, on the age of 15 years, he accompanied Johan van Oldenbarnevelt to a diplomatic mission in Paris. On this occasion, the King Henri IV of France would have presented to his court as “the miracle of Holland”.

On Hart”™s view, the rule of recognition is authoritative in advantage of a conference amongst officials to regard its criteria as standards that govern their conduct as officials. While Joseph Raz does not seem to endorse Hart”™s view about a master rule of recognition containing the criteria of validity, he also believes the validity standards are authoritative only in advantage of a convention amongst officers. Philosophy of legislation (or authorized philosophy) is concerned with offering a common philosophical evaluation of legislation and authorized institutions. Issues in the area vary from abstract conceptual questions in regards to the nature of regulation and legal methods to normative questions concerning the relationship between regulation and morality and the justification for varied authorized institutions. …