Institute for Liechtenstein Law and Legal Theory (ILRR)

The Institute pursues the goal of taking a position on current legal problems affecting or at least partially affecting the Principality of Liechtenstein from a sound scientific-theoretical basis and taking into account insights from legal history and comparative law.

The Institute, like the Faculty of Law at UFL as a whole, is committed to jurisprudence as an applied science. As will be shown in more detail under I. and II., this in no way excludes the philosophy of law and legal theory as areas of research: quite the contrary. These two jurisprudential disciplines can certainly be practised in an application-oriented way as well by always keeping their justification-theoretical function in mind: Philosophy of law and legal theory define the conditions under which normative statements can claim to be legal statements, i.e. scientific knowledge about the content of law.

Pursuant thereto, the contents of sections I. and II. do not represent an area of research irrespective of the issues of applicable law addressed in sections III. and IV., but rather the necessary scientific-theoretical basis for well-founded solutions to legal issues. The justification-theoretical function of the philosophy of law and legal theory is also underscored here because it is usually neglected in jurisprudential research and teaching, not least due to the fact that it is increasingly being forgotten In scientific discourse.

The aforementioned goals give rise to the following research priorities: