Paper's abstract

Roberto Vernengo, Is Law a System?
In the notion of system, when related to Law, remains some ambiguity, for lawyers do not always distinguish between the supposed systematicity of Law itself and the systematic order that the scientific knowledge of law tries to impose on its subject. This is why the paper of van de Kerchove and Ost on "the" legal system opens interesting perspectives in order to clear certain unspoken presuppositions which must be discussed concerning their reach and consequences. The thesis put forward in the article is that the so-called requirement for systematicity is no more than a contingent requirement that lawyers can state when elaborating theories on a certain objective law or the expression of a dualist ideology, recurring among lawyers.

Key Words : system, Ost, Kerchove
t. 36, 1991 : p. 253-264

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