Do the Right Thing! – Robert Alexy and the Claim to Correctness

On the Connection between Law and Morality: Some Doubts about Robert Alexy’s View

“…As to Alexy’s thesis of law’s claim to correctness , I have, like some other scholars before, serious doubts about his assumption that law itself is capable of raising this claim, even if understood in the figurative sense that the claim is actually made by legal authorities or officials as law’s representatives in its behalf (cf. Gardner 2012; Himma 2001; MacCormick 2007; Poggi and Sardo 2016; Raz 2007). First of all, I am not sure whether there is any legal authority or official who could reasonably make a claim to the correctness of the respective legal order as a whole.…”