What is legal validity and is it important?
some critical remarks about the legal status of soft law
pp. 125-144
Abstract
In this chapter, I shall be concerned with the question what legal validity is and why it is important. The first part of the chapter is devoted to an analysis of the notion of validity, which allows us to answer the question what it means to say that a rule is or is not legally valid. In the second part, I argue that legal validity has practical importance. I illustrate my claim by discussing the legal status of a particular kind of soft law, viz. two Dutch codes of conduct for the judiciary.
Publication details
Published in:
Westerman Pauline, Hage Jaap, Kirste Stephan, Mackor Anne Ruth (2018) Legal validity and soft law. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 125-144
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-77522-7_6
Full citation:
(2018) „What is legal validity and is it important?: some critical remarks about the legal status of soft law“, In: P. Westerman, J. Hage, S. Kirste & A. Mackor (eds.), Legal validity and soft law, Dordrecht, Springer, 125–144.