Robert Alexy

7.7k citations
120 papers · 2.3k · 1 hit paper · h-index 23

Impact in

  • Law top 0.01%
    • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
    • Brazilian Legal Issues
    • Law in Society and Culture
    • Legal processes and jurisprudence
    • Criminal Justice and Penology
    • Legal principles and applications
    • Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies
    • Political Philosophy and Ethics

Papers in

  • Law 82
    • Judicial and Constitutional Studies 31
    • Law and Political Science 18
    • Legal processes and jurisprudence 17
    • Law in Society and Culture 15
    • Criminal Justice and Penology 13
    • Brazilian Legal Issues 12
    • Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies 47
    • Political Philosophy and Ethics 18

Robert Alexy

100 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Theorie der Grundrechte 1985 · 184 citations
1840+13+27Years since publication50100150

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Robert Alexy
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  • Law 1.4k
  • Political Science and International Relations 1.2k
  • Philosophy 213
  • Sociology and Political Science 573
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 140
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All Works

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A Theory of Constitutional Rights
2002334
2
Theorie der Grundrechte
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1985184
3
A Theory of Legal Argumentation: The Theory of Rational Discourse as Theory of Legal Justification
1989134
4 2003121
5 1985111
6
Teoría de los derechos fundamentales
199398
7 200096
8
El concepto y la validez del derecho
199493
9 200381
10
Teoria dos direitos fundamentais
200859
11 200551
12 201043
13 200842
14 199038
15 200034
16
Theorie der juristischen Argumentation : die Theorie des rationalen Diskurses als Theorie der juristischen Begründung
197831
17 200430
18 198827
19 200027
20 198927

About Robert Alexy

Robert Alexy is a scholar working on Law, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Philosophy, having authored 120 papers that have together received 2.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies (47 papers), Judicial and Constitutional Studies (31 papers), Political Philosophy and Ethics (18 papers), Law and Political Science (18 papers), Legal processes and jurisprudence (17 papers), Law in Society and Culture (15 papers), Criminal Justice and Penology (13 papers) and Brazilian Legal Issues (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Law (1.4k citations), Political Science and International Relations (1.2k citations), Philosophy (213 citations), Sociology and Political Science (573 citations) and Cognitive Neuroscience (140 citations). Robert Alexy has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, Brazil and United States. Frequent co-authors include Julian Rivers, Édgar Bodenheimer, Neil MacCormick, Ruth Adler, Virgílio Afonso da Silva, Aleksander Peczenik, Isabel García Espejo, Manuel Atienza Rodríguez, Eugenio Bulygin and Erik Oddvar Eriksen. Their work appears in journals such as International Journal of Constitutional Law, Ratio Juris, Revista Española de Derecho Constitucional, European Law Journal and The American Journal of Jurisprudence.

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