Ralph Christensen

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Ralph Christensen (* 1953 in San José (California) ) is a German legal scholar , author, philosopher and co-founder of the Heidelberg group of legal linguistics . His writings have had a significant impact on German legal philosophy , legal methodology and interdisciplinary legal linguistics .

Life

Ralph Christensen was born in San José in 1953. He studied philosophy, jurisprudence, German and sociology and received his doctorate in both law and philosophy . After completing his studies, he worked as a research assistant for Friedrich Müller at Heidelberg University for ten years . Since 1991 he has been a tutor for public law, philosophy of language and analytical rhetoric at Hemmer Bonn and Cologne.

Main focus of work and work

His work focuses on dogmatics, legal theory and methodology, especially the European Court of Justice (ECJ) as well as interdisciplinary research on the language and mediality of law. Ralph Christensen is one of the most important legal linguists in Germany. He was a co-founder of the Heidelberg group of legal linguistics. Most of his writings have been published by Duncker & Humblot , where he and the linguist Friedemann Vogel (Siegen) also publish the monograph series “Language and Mediality of Law”.

Fonts

  • Ralph Christensen: What does binding law mean ?: A legal linguistic investigation . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-428-06699-5 (353 pages).
  • Ralph Christensen, Hans Kudlich: Theory of judicial reasoning . Duncker and Humblot, 2001, ISBN 3-428-10544-3 .
  • Ralph Christensen, Hans Kudlich: Legal binding . Duncker & Humblot, 2008, ISBN 978-3-428-12638-5 .
  • Hans Kudlich, Ralph Christensen: The methodology of the BGH in criminal matters: A media-scientific content analysis of reasons for making decisions in criminal matters . Heymann, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-452-26939-3 .
  • Friedrich Müller, Ralph Christensen: European law . 3., rework. and strong exp. 3rd edition. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-428-53941-3 (757 pages).
  • Friedrich Müller, Ralph Christensen: Legal methodology: foundation for the working methods of legal practice . 11., edited up to date. and exp. 11th edition. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-84188-2 .
  • Friedrich Müller, Ralph Christensen, Michael Sokolowski: Legal text and text work . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-09132-9 (197 pages).
  • Friedemann Vogel, Ralph Christensen, Stephan Pötters: Judicial law of labor - empirically investigated: possibilities and limits of computer-aided text analysis using the example of the employee concept . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2015.
  • Friedrich Müller, Ralph Christensen (Ed.): Methodology, Theory, Linguistics of Law: New Articles (1995–1997) . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-09277-5 (92 pages).
  • Friedrich Müller, Ralph Christensen, Bodo Pieroth (eds.): Legal theory with practical legal intent: a gift for the 70th birthday of Friedrich Müller . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-428-12590-8 (296 pages).
  • Ralph Christensen, Hans Kudlich: The interpretation theory as implicit language theory of the jurists . In: Archive for Legal and Social Philosophy (ARSP) . No. 2 , 2002, p. 230-246 .
  • Hans Kudlich, Ralph Christensen: The canons of the interpretation as an aid for the decision of conflicts of meaning . In: Legal worksheets . 2004, p. 74–83 ( online [PDF; accessed October 22, 2012]).
  • Friedemann Vogel, Ralph Christensen: Corpus-based analysis of constitutional jurisprudence: There is no weighing of principles . In: Legal Theory. Journal for logic and legal methodology, legal informatics, communication research, norms and action theory, sociology and philosophy of law . tape 44 , no. 1 , 2013, p. 29-60 .

Remarks

  1. ^ Law and Language: Methodology and Linguistics of Law. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Language and Media of Law (SMR) | Series of publications | Duncker & Humblot. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Christensen, Ralph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, author and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH San Jose (California)