Peter Koller (legal philosopher)

Peter Koller (born January 25, 1947 in Graz ) is an Austrian legal philosopher and legal sociologist .

Life

Peter Koller completed his law studies in 1971 and philosophy with a minor in sociology in 1981, each with a doctorate. In 1985 he completed his habilitation in the subjects of legal and social philosophy and legal sociology. Since 1991 he has been a university professor for legal philosophy, legal theory and legal sociology at the Faculty of Law at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz . Numerous visiting professorships have taken him to the University of Minnesota , Rutgers University in New Jersey and Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, among others .

Koller is a member of the Advisory Board of the German Society for Research into Political Thought (DGEPD).

Research priorities

• Political theory, in particular:
  • social justice
  • political freedom
  • social equality
  • democracy
  • international order
• Moral philosophy, in particular:
  • Justification of moral norms
  • moral action in a morally defective social environment
• Legal theory
• legal methodology
• Legal sociology, in particular:
  • Forms of social cooperation
  • legal management of ecological problems

Fonts

• New theories of the social contract. Berlin 1987.
• Theory of law. An introduction. 2nd Edition. Vienna 1997.
• (Ed.): Current Issues in Political Philosophy: Justice in Society and World Order. Vienna 1997.
• (Ed.): Justice in the political discourse of the present. Vienna 2001.
• Essays on topics of legal philosophy and political philosophy, including:
  • Human and civil rights from an ethical perspective. In: Yearbook for Law and Ethics. 3, 1995.
  • Peace and Justice in a Divided World. In: Reinhard Merkel & Robert Wittmann (eds.): "To Eternal Peace". Basics, topicality and prospects of an idea by Immanuel Kant. Frankfurt am Main 1996.
  • Westphalian system or global peace order? In: Political Thinking . 2000 yearbook
  • Unemployment and justice. In: Manfred Prisching (Ed.): Ethics in the welfare state. Vienna 2000.
  • Social justice, economic order and welfare state. In: Wolfgang Kersting (Hrsg.): Political philosophy of the welfare state. Weilerswist 2000.
  • The moral relevance of state borders. In: Karl Graf Ballestrem (Ed.): Internationale Gerechtigkeit. Opladen 2001.

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Koller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage on the website of the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
• List of publications (selection, as of August 2008) (PDF file; 102 kB)