What jurist dont say. Unexpressed and de-positivating norms

• Autor: Barberis, Mauro
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Corte Suprema de Justicia de la República del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Corte Suprema de Justicia de la República del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistas.pj.gob.pe:article/6
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.pj.gob.pe/revista/index.php/ropj/article/view/6
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: implicit norms; unexpressed norms; interpretation; construction; de-positivization; normas implícitas; normas no expresadas; interpretación; construcción; despositivización

One of the most intriguing issues treated by recent legal theory are implicit and/or unexpressed norms. However, this topic, proposed by Riccardo Guastini in the last century’s Nineties, evidently embarrasses other lawyers and law theorists; in fact, it is discussed almost by Genoeses and their friends alone, as we shall see. The paper reconstructs the thematization of this problem, deeply connected with other typical «Genoese» topics such as interpretation / construction distinction and the very concept of Kelsenian Rahmen. Finally, a distinction of implicit and (totally) unexpressed norms is proposed, by redefining implicit ones as a dependent variable of judicial application and dealing with unexpressed norms as an element of a process I call law’s de-positivization.