Publisher's Synopsis
Contains the papers presented at the 3rd Benelux-Scandinavian Symposium on Legal Theory, held in Amsterdam on January 3-5, 1991. The main theme of the symposium was coherence and conflict in law. The topics that were discussed were: the concept of coherence and conflict from different points of view (semantical, logical, sociological and jurisprudential); coherence and conflict in law and morality; and coherence and rational methods for solving legal conflicts.