Legal formalism: a comparison between Jori and Schauer

• Autor: Pintore, Anna
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2017
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español; italiano
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/19315
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/derechopucp/article/view/19315
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: legal formalism; Mario Jori; Frederick Schauer; legal rule; legal reasoning; legal texts; interpretation; defeasibility; constitutional legal orders; formalismo jurídico; norma jurídica; razonamiento jurídico; texto jurídico; interpretación; derrotabilidad; Estado constitucional de derecho; formalismo giuridico; norma giuridica; ragionamento giuridico; testo giuridico; interpretazione; defettibilità; stato costituzionale di diritto

This essay examines and juxtaposes Mario Jori’s and Frederick Schauer’s ideas on legal formalism. Although developed independently of each other, these ideas show remarkable similarities: both focus on the notion of norm or rule as a tool for clarifying the notion of legal formalism; both defend legal formalism from the criticisms routinely moved against it. The author maintains that Jori’s and Schauer’s theories may contribute to shed light on (and criticize) the controversial notion of defeasibility of legal rules; they may also contribute to scale down, from a legal-theoretical point of view, the novelties of contemporary constitutional orders; finally, it may help to better understand their working machinery.