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Typology of legal theories: positivist tradition and challenges of interpretativism
 
PIIS102694520013149-4-1
DOI10.31857/S102694520013149-4
Publication type Article
Status Published
Authors
Sergei N. Kasatkin 
Occupation: Associate Professor, Department of theory and history of state and law of the Samara Law Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia; Department of theory of law and philosophy of the Samara state University of Economics
Affiliation:
Samara Law Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia
Samara state University of Economics
Address: Samara, 443022, Samara, Ryl’skaya str., 24 “в” (Samara Law Institute of FPS of Russia)
Journal nameGosudarstvo i pravo
EditionIssue 4
Pages70-80
Abstract

This article examines classical methodological dimensions / typologies of legal theories, centered in modern Anglo-American jurisprudence, and analyzes their determination and use in legal positivism and in R. Dworkin’s interpretative doctrine. The article aims to explicate basic methodological characteristics of legal theories within Anglo-American positivist tradition (including H.L.A. Hart’s views) as well as to consider these characteristics in light of the ideas and challenges of interpretativism revealing identification and consequences of R. Dworkin’s account. As general conclusions the article substantiates a status of R. Dworkin’s interpretative doctrine as a hermeneutical jurisprudence of “internal point of view”, a particular legal theory of a normative character. Its role is emphasized not only as a methodological alternative to positivist and other similar conceptions within a framework of classical system of dimensions of legal theorizing, but also as a challenge to this system itself, to its criteria and a row of methodological possibilities — a project of a general descriptive morally-neutral jurisprudence. Finally, the influence of R. Dworkin’s interpretativism on modern Anglo-American legal thought is stated, which encourages transformation of its “intellectual landscape” toward a more advanced jurisprudential methodology, able to allow for more subtle and complex challenges.

Keywordstypes of legal theories, legal positivism, legal interpretativism, hermeneutical legal theory, R. Dworkin, legal interpretation, methodology of jurisprudence
AcknowledgmentThe publication was prepared with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, projects No. 18-011-01213 "Law as integrity — law as interpretation: theoretical-methodological and problem-historical reconstruction of the doctrine of legal interpretativism by Ronald Dworkin (1967 - 1986)" and No. 20-011-00914 "The project of Positivism today: the historical trajectory, the problem field and the system of legal positivism in the Anglo-American tradition".
Received22.12.2020
Publication date29.04.2021
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