The neoconstitutionalist-pragmatist concept of Law
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https://doi.org/10.17808/des.56.685Keywords:
legal pragmatism, conceptualism, essentialism, neo-constitutionalism.Abstract
This article aims to examine two different meanings on the concept of Law, through a pragmatic approach: that of the traditional, essentialist doctrine, as well as the one from the conventionalist thesis. Legal pragmatism may refer to a great number of objectives, among them, the elaboration of a theory on the concept of Law. In this work it is stated that the so-called conceptual legal pragmatism corresponds to the search for a concept of Law that denies the existence of a metaphysical truth and that is developed as a doctrine related to conventions. After analyzing the characteristics of conceptual pragmatism, it is argued that neo-constitutionalism (especially that of particular scope) assumes a pragmatic position, choosing to propose questions such as those that discuss how different legal systems work and how we argue them, instead of asking itself "what is law?", a question loaded with a radical essentialism. The neo-constitutionalist shift from the theory of the legal system to the theory of legal argumentation as the fundamental framework of the theory of law represents a way to reject essentialism, which is in accordance with the pragmatist proposal.References
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