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    Ciudadano cosmopolita entre libertad y seguridad
    In Gustavo Leyva & Víctor Alarcón (eds.), La teoría crítica y las tareas actuales de la crítica, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa, División De Ciencias Sociales Y Humanidades. pp. 353--374. 2005.
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    Individuelle Zurechnung im demokratischen Verfassungsstaat
    Jahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik 2. 1994.
    In a constitutional democracy, the imputation of a legal violation to an individual must be related to the fact that democratic approval of a norm - under limiting conditions - is coupled with the obligation to follow that norm. The neutrality of modern law toward the quality of motives for following a norm, however, challenges the assumption of such a connection. This challenge is overlooked by those who take the position that individual imputation should be based on the morally autonomous indi…Read more
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    Critical Remarks on Robert Alexy's "Special-Case Thesis"
    Ratio Juris 6 (2): 143-156. 1993.
    In this paper the author criticizes the way Robert Alexy reconstructs the relationship between legal and practical reasoning. The core of Alexy's argumentation (Alexy 1978) is considered the claim that legal argumentation is a “special case” of general practical discourse. In order to question this claim, the author analyzes three different types of argument: (1) that legal reasoning is needed by general practical discourse itself, (2) that there are similarities between legal argumentation and …Read more