Treść książki
Przejdź do opcji czytnikaPrzejdź do nawigacjiPrzejdź do informacjiPrzejdź do stopki
1)theoretical-legalstudies(theoryoflaw,philosophyoflaw,
andsociologyoflaw);
2)historical-legalstudies(generalhistoryoflaw,thehistory
ofPolishlaw,thehistoryofpolitical-legaldoctrines,and
RomanLaw);
3)studiesofparticularlegaldogmatics(administrativelaw,
civillaw,Europeanlaw,financiallaw,commerciallaw,crimi-
nallaw,constitutionallaw,internationallaw,etc.);
4)auxiliarystudies(legallogic,legalcomputerstudies,foren-
sics,criminology,forensicmedicine,forensicpsychiatry).
[?]Whatarethefourbasicpositionsrelatingto
thescholarly/scientificstatusofjurisprudence?
Thesecondissueismuchmorecomplicated-thatis,themeth-
odologicalstatusoflegalstudiesaspartofscholarship/science.
JerzyStelmachandBartoszBrożekprecedetheiranalysisofba-
siclegalmethods(logic,analysis,argumentation,hermeneutics)
withasurveyofvariouspositions.Intheirview,bothinthepast
andatpresent,itispossibletodistinguishthreebasicpositionsin
relationtothematteroftheexistenceornon-existenceofpartic-
ularlegalmethods,andoftheirnature.Itistruethattheauthors
relatetheirconsiderations,aboveall,totypesoflegalreasoning,
buttheirobservationscanequallywellberelatedtoquestionsof
themethodologicalstatusoflegalstudiesingeneral.
First,onecancompletelyrejectthescholarly/scientificstatus
ofjurisprudence.Inthissenseitisnotascience(oranart,asin
Ulpian’sfamousformulation-iusestarsbonietaequi),butrather
somethinglikeaHcraft.”Theclassicexampleisthepositionofthe
GermanlawyerJoachimvonKirchmann,whoin1847entitled,
inaverycharacteristicmanner,alecturecriticalofthehistori-
calschool:DieWertlosigkeitderJurisprudenzalsWissenschaft(The
WorthlessnessofJurisprudenceasScience).Historyhasalsore-
cordedthefollowingsymbolicview,whichquestionsthevalue
ofdiscussionsoflegalprinciples:threewordsfromthelegislator
andwholelibrariesendupasscrappaper.IntheviewofJerzy
StelmachandBartoszBrożek,therepresentativesofCriticalLegal
Studiesinmuchthesamefashiondenytheexistenceofspecific
legalmethods.
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