The legal philosophy of Kant
pp. 553-578
in: Enrico Pattaro, Damiano Canale, Hasso Hofmann, Patrick Riley (eds), A treatise of legal philosophy and general jurisprudence 9-10, Berlin, Springer, 2009Abstract
In Kant's philosophy of law (Rechtslehre, 1797) there is an important and authentic "formalist" strand which holds that "any action is right if it can co-exist with everyone's freedom in accordance with a universal law, or if on its maxim the freedom of choice of each can co-exist with everyone's freedom in accordance with a universal law" (Kant 1996, 387).
