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Norms and Novelty: Reflections on Legal Knowledge, Norms and Evolutionary Systems

Prof. dr Giovanni Tuzet

Bocconi University in Milan

English abstract: The paper has three sub-topics: legal knowledge, legal norms, and evolutionary systems. The three are interconnected. A reflection on the nature of legal knowledge throws light on the nature of legal norms. Legal knowledge is largely a posteriori and it is so because norms are largely contingent. Being a realm of continual change, law has novelty as a fundamental feature. The process of legal change is not driven by chance but by the attempt to face ever new problems and changing circumstances. This supports a view of legal systems as adaptive and evolutionary, as classical pragmatism suggested. However, inference can give some a priori legal knowledge.

Keywords: inference, legal knowledge, legal norms, novelty, pragmatism

Language: English

Published: Number 2(27)/2021, pp. 108-122.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2021.2.108

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Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: inference, legal knowledge, legal norms, novelty, pragmatism

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