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- Title
Inclusive Legal Positivism, Legal Interpretation, and Value-Judgments.
- Authors
VILLA, VITTORIO
- Abstract
In this paper I put forward some arguments in defence of inclusive legal positivism. The general thesis that I defend is that inclusive positivism represents a more fruitful and interesting research program than that proposed by exclusive positivism. I introduce two arguments connected with legal interpretation in favour of my thesis. However, my opinion is that inclusive positivism does not sufficiently succeed in estranging itself from the more traditional legal positivist conceptions. This is the case, for instance, with regard to the value-freedom principle, which is commonly accepted by inclusive positivist scholars. In contrast with this approach, I try to show, in the concluding section, how a constructivistic version of inclusive positivism could legitimately acknowledge the presence of value-judgments in the cognitive activities of jurists and legal theorists.
- Subjects
LEGAL positivism; JURISPRUDENCE; INTERPRETATION (Philosophy); LEGAL judgments; LAWYERS
- Publication
Ratio Juris, 2009, Vol 22, Issue 1, p110
- ISSN
0952-1917
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9337.2008.00415.x