School of Law School of Law
Research Students    
Peng He
Research Topic
'Law of Lawmaking: A Study of Lawmaking from a Legal Theoretical Point of View'
Doctoral Research
The task of this thesis, shortly speaking, is twofold: one is to clarify the ontological meaning of lawmaking, i.e. what is lawmaking? what is the difference between the concepts as lawmaking and legislating, law and legislation, etc; another is to construct methodological assessment criteria of ‘ideal’ lawmaking. In the later discussion, we will see that this topic is rarely explored in a theoretical way, nor is it studied in both its ontological and methodological aspects. Even the jurists who had already discussed the topic did not connect those two parts together: they either discussed the ontological aspect of the topic, as Friedrich Hayek or Jeremy Waldron did; or they only analyzed the methodological part, as Jeremy Bentham, H.L.A Hart or Luc J. Wintgens did. This thesis will connect both of the two aspects of the study on lawmaking...
Supervisors
Principal Supervisor: Professor Zenon Bankowski
Assistant Supervisor: Professor Burkhard Schafer
Contact Details
Peng He
Research Student
School of Law
University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh EH8 9YL
UK

Email: s0567418@sms.ed.ac.uk
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