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Novas abordagens em metodologia jurídica - New Approaches to Legal Methodology

A discussão dos tópicos do dia-a-dia jurídico tem vida útil curta e os comentários sobre esse quotidiano são em grande parte perfunctórios. Seguindo o rápido desenvolvimento das competências dos Tribunais Superiores especialmente na esfera da União Européia pode-se notar um conjunto de balizas metodológicas que não podem ser compreendidas à luz das diretrizes das interpretações clássicas. A ciência do direito é uma disciplina essencialmente prática e como a prática jurídica desenvolveu sua pr...

The impotent state - Der ohnmächtige Staat. Between self-assertion strategies and illusions of control. Remarks concerning the financial crisis - Zwischen Selbstbehauptungsstrategien und Steuerungsillusionen. Bemerkungen anlässlich der Finanzkrise

The present world economic crisis, triggered by the bursting of the real estate bubble in the USA, not only illustrates the risks of worldwide risk distribution - the securitisation and international trading of subprime loans - and thus the danger of the globalisation of opaque systems created from complex investment products (itself a topic worthy of further investigation by system theoreticians); it also once again reveals the limited powers of the state both as regards prevention and in th...

Knowledge and Accountability in Aristotle - Wissen und Zurechenbarkeit bei Aristoteles

This contribution is intended to show that Aristotle was the first European philosopher to provide a systematic analysis of the so-called accountability problem. In the third book of his Nicomachean Ethics, he lays particular stress on the central role of knowledge: deficiencies in the knowledge of the perpetrator mean that we do not hold him responsible for his actions, or only to a limited extent; he is thus either not at all, or only to a certain degree, accountable for his acts.Der Be...

A few basic considerations on the method of finding the law - Einige Grundüberlegungen zur Methode der Rechtsfindung

The contribution attempts to illustrate why it is appropriate to speak of finding, re-cognising and application, or applying, of the law. Reservations have been articulated about this use of language as a consequence of ontologically sceptical assumptions, which raise doubts as to the level of reality contained in these terms. "Legal ontology" is used as a knock-down argument in certain pointed aspects of this scepticism. However, there is no reason to do so.Der Beitrag versucht zu verdeu...

To Order Observation - Beobachterin weiter Ordnung. Cornelia Vismann, 1961-2010

The law of media cannot be separated from the media of law. This principle of the legal and cultural scientist, Cornelia Vismann, applies to a law that again and again is threaten by the things, it wishes to treat. It regulates images and may just become visual. It regulates the force as a force by being it. It regulates the economics of property - peculiarly. Herein lies the possibility of a fruitful exchange in which things can establish their justness - as well as the possibility that a fr...

Legal theory as media theory - Rechtstheorie als Medientheorie - (Supplement I). Reflections on the necessity of linking theory of language and media theory - Überlegungen zur Notwendigkeit der Verknüpfung von Sprachtheorie und Medientheorie

There is a close relationship between media and law: a medium such as writing is not simply a channel through which law and legal knowledge are communicated; rather, writing itself plays a role in the processes of law-making. Media format the space in which both cognitive and practical knowledge - formative and normative texts - develop, and thus also law as a part of such bodies of knowledge. Without speech there can be no legal formulas and legal proverbs, without writing there can be no le...

The boundaries between rhetoric and law I - Die rechtlich-rhetorischen Grenzen I. Examples from Max Kaser, Fritz Schulz and Uwe Wesel - Beispiele von Max Kaser, Fritz Schulz und Uwe Wesel

This contribution looks at the history of the history of law or, in more exact terms, at a controversy relating to rhetorical influences on Roman law. The question is: how do the authors set a boundary between law and rhetoric? This is not a question of Roman legal history, but the "History of Roman Law"‚ a 20th century discipline, and of books that were published some considerable time after the Latinity phase in the faculties of German universities.Der Beitrag wirft einen Blick auf die ...

Harold J. Berman (1918 - 2007)

In the 20th century, a specifically normative integration of Western civilization collapsed - and in the 20th century all paradigms corresponding to this system lost their meaning. The symbols of a great Western (legal-) society regressed into nothing more than shallow and abstract nationalisms; visions of a just community were transformed into the law of nation-focused social engineers on both sides of the iron curtain. Expedience, practicability, and the reduction of law to an apparatus of ...

Law as 'tohu-bohu' and as a dream of humankind - Or: Is there a concept of law? - Recht als Tohuwabohu und als Menschheitstraum - Oder: Gibt es einen Begriff des Rechts?

Is there a law? One can emphasise the question as follows: is there a law, or is there a law. In blunt terms: what is law; what constitutes law? There has never been a problem-free concept of law. What we have are all sorts of connecting factors and all sorts of aspects, in other words, a tohu-bohu. Thus the question arises, as to how a scientific theory can best address such a phenomenon.Gibt es überhaupt ein Recht? Dabei kann man die Frage betonen auf dem ein (!) Recht und auf dem ein R...

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Wissenschaft und Werturteil - Wissenschaft und Politik

Im modernen Verständnis separiert sich Wissenschaftlichkeit von subjektiver Wertung. Im besonderen Hinblick auf die Geisteswissenschaften und die Rechtswissenschaft stößt dieses Leitbild an Grenzen: als wertfreie sind diese Wissenschaften allenfalls teilweise zu betreiben. Die Intentionen Max Webers, den wissenschaftlichen Diskurs von starker politischer Beeinflussung freizuhalten, behalten freilich ihren Sinn. Ihnen ist nicht durch ein - kaum realisierbares - Postulat der Wertfreiheit, sonde...