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Lo Público Y Lo Privado En El Derecho, Enrique Barros Bourie
Lo Público Y Lo Privado En El Derecho, Enrique Barros Bourie
Enrique Barros Bourie
El ensayo asume que el derecho es público en un sentido elemental: es una institución que ordena la convivencia; se asienta en la justicia, la más pública de las virtudes; y su eficacia reside en una instancia judicial que resuelve los conflictos e invoca el uso legítimo de la fuerza. Más allá de esa publicidad básica, el derecho muestra diversas dimensiones de lo público y lo privado en la sociedad contemporánea. Ante todo, lo público aparece como sinónimo de lo estatal en la lógica normativa que subyace a las regulaciones, que se expresan en actos de voluntad política y cuyo …
An Arrow To The Heart: The Love And Death Of Postmodern Legal Scholarship, Stephen M. Feldman
An Arrow To The Heart: The Love And Death Of Postmodern Legal Scholarship, Stephen M. Feldman
Stephen M. Feldman
This Article responds to two critiques of postmodern legal scholarship published by Dennis W. Arrow in the Michigan and Texas Law Reviews. Arrow raises the modernist criticisms that are most often leveled against postmodern legal scholars. If Arrow and the other critics were to be believed, postmodernists are muddle-headed thinkers who write indecipherable jargon-filled nonsense. Even worse, they are irresponsible nihilists who lack political convictions. Such criticisms of postmodernism are unpersuasive because the typical modernist depiction of postmodern legal thought is seriously inaccurate. It is little more than a caricature.The modernists, in other words, are imprecise and downright wrong. Now, …