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The General Theory of Law is an interdisciplinary field that examines the fundamental principles, concepts, and structures underlying legal systems. It seeks to understand the nature of law, its functions, and its relationship with morality, society, and governance, often integrating insights from philosophy, sociology, and political science.
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The General Theory of Law is an interdisciplinary field that examines the fundamental principles, concepts, and structures underlying legal systems. It seeks to understand the nature of law, its functions, and its relationship with morality, society, and governance, often integrating insights from philosophy, sociology, and political science.

Key research themes

1. How do normativity and principles underpin the conceptual structure of law in general legal theory?

This research area explores the foundational normative elements of law, focusing on how legal principles and norms constitute the conceptual and methodological frameworks within which law operates. It examines competing theories of normativity, the role of principles vs. rules, and the methodological approaches that integrate or differentiate legal norms, particularly emphasizing the formalist-positivist spectrum and the dialectics of law and morality.

Key finding: R. Alexy’s theory distinguishes legal principles from legal rules based on their degree of obligation, introducing principles as 'dictates of optimization' that can be weighed and balanced in legal reasoning using his... Read more
Key finding: This study argues for an integrative legal understanding that synthesizes oppositional legal methodologies, notably positivist and natural law approaches, through dialectical logic rather than formal logic. It establishes... Read more
Key finding: The paper elucidates Kelsen’s formalist and normativist methodology, emphasizing his ambition to establish jurisprudence as a 'pure' science abstracted from political ideology and morality. Kelsen’s hierarchical conception of... Read more

2. What challenges arise in understanding law’s operational dynamics in practice, including the role of legal interpretation, doctrinal development, and systemic gaps?

This theme investigates how law functions dynamically beyond formal statutes, emphasizing interpretation, systemic imperfections like legal gaps, and the interplay between doctrine and pragmatic application. It focuses on the methods for resolving ambiguities within the law, the interpretive frameworks that jurists employ, and the empirical realities of legal enforcement and adjudication, thus addressing the gap between legal normativity and lived legal practice.

Key finding: The paper identifies and classifies legal gaps as inherent and inevitable imperfections in any legal system, arising from the impossibility of exhaustive normative coverage. It distinguishes legal gaps from conflicts of law,... Read more
Key finding: This essay defends a constructivist, value-laden positivist perspective on legal interpretation—that interpretive acts are inherently normative and connected to values rather than neutral fact-finding. By distinguishing... Read more
Key finding: This introductory work situates law as an institutionalized organization of power reflecting social relations, especially those shaped by capitalist class struggles. It critiques legal positivism’s ideological abstraction by... Read more
Key finding: The paper prognosticates a 21st-century legal system hampered by excessive judicial authoritarianism and procedural abuses, resulting in the stultification of law through sanctions-driven litigation limits. It highlights the... Read more

3. How do contemporary approaches extend traditional coercive conceptions of law through non-coercive mechanisms and evolving societal challenges?

This theme explores the expanding understanding of law beyond coercive sanctions to include positive, symbolic, and behavioral regulatory functions. It discusses innovative legal mechanisms such as nudges, legislative architecture, and non-binding instruments that influence conduct without formal compulsion, highlighting their normative and expressive functions. Integral to this inquiry is how legal systems adapt to sociotechnical transformations, balancing formalism with flexibility, and calibrating legal order resilience amid emergent governance challenges.

Key finding: The chapter reconceptualizes sanctions by emphasizing ‘positive sanctions’—incentives, informational campaigns, recommendations, and symbolic norms—as complementary to traditional coercive enforcement. It argues that... Read more
Key finding: This study critically assesses nudging as a legislative technique that indirectly influences behavior through context design without coercion. By examining public health interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic, it... Read more
Key finding: This paper systematically contrasts three conceptual models of the individual—the Reasonable Person, the Biased Nudged Human, and Homo Economicus—highlighting their philosophical origins and divergent implications in legal... Read more

All papers in General Theory of Law

The relevance of the review of this book is due to the growing interest of the international scientific community in new variants of realistic jurisprudence, including Russian. The subject of the research in the review is the analysis of... more
13 Art. 5º da CFR: "Todos são iguais perante a lei, sem distinção de qualquer natureza, garantindo-se aos brasileiros e aos estrangeiros residentes no País a inviolabilidade do direito à vida, à liberdade, à igualdade, à segurança e à... more
This essay is very short, but its meaning really stretches to infinity. It could have been, and at first I intended to be, include into a book, which you can find among my other works on this site. Everything written below occurred to me... more
In these pages an attempt is made to retrace the salient steps concerning the relationship between public authorities and freedom of contract in the U.S. experience. In particular, an attempt is made to highlight how, especially from the... more
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L'articolo offre una ricostruzione teorica del giudizio di responsabilità, inteso come cornice logica ideale entro cui inquadrare ciascuna delle diverse forme di responsabilità previste dall'ordinamento, analizzandone la struttura e i... more
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A teoria proposta, denominada "Frequência da Corda", apresenta uma nova interpretação das partículas fundamentais do universo. Em vez de assumir que as partículas sejam extensões unidimensionais (cordas físicas), esta hipótese sugere que... more
This study aims to provide brief considerations on the sociopsychological conception of law in Pontes de Miranda's work, highlighting his pioneering role in overcoming the dichotomy between objectivism (social structures) and subjectivism... more
Il contributo indaga la consistenza della legge, intesa come intreccio di elementi formali, simbolici, linguistici e pragmatici. La consistenza normativa qui presenta, si manifesta nella coerenza formale del testo, nella sua... more
O principal escopo do presente artigo é mostrar, tomando por base a proposta formulada pelo filósofo francês Paul Ricoeur, que a interpretação jurídica não pode ser reduzida apenas aos momentos de compreensão de um texto legal e de sua... more
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Г ал ун ов Т одор Г еоргиев д.полит.наук, профессор кафедры политологии, социологии и культурологии философского факультета Великотырновского университета «Св. Кирилла и Мефодия» Болгария, г.Велико-Тырново
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Ce travail de recherche a pour but d’analyser et de comprendre la mainmise des autres pouvoirs de l’Etat sur le Pouvoir Judiciaire. Il s’intitule, en effet, « Analyse juridico-politique de la dépendance du pouvoir judiciaire face aux... more
Recursul reprezintă o cale de atac ce are menirea de a pune în valoare principiul constituțional al dublului grad de jurisdicție, iar natura sa juridică decurge din această împrejurare. Prin intermediul acestei căi de atac, Curtea Supremă... more
The multifaceted concept "law enforcement activity" creates an urgent need to conduct a special theoretical and legal study, including its comparative and legal components. The complex, systematic study of the problem of law enforcement... more
It is a matter of scholarly consensus that legal doctrine has significantly influenced the development of law — at least within the Romano-Germanic (continental) legal tradition. However, the mechanisms through which doctrine exerts its... more
Рекомендовано до друку Вченою Радою Науково-дослідного інституту приватного права і підприємництва імені академіка Ф. Г. Бурчака НАПрН України (протокол № 6 від 25.06.2025 року). Редакційна колегія: О. Д. Крупчан доктор юридичних наук,... more
This article delves into Bjarne Melkevik’s arguments about the significance of studying the philosophy of law. It aims to address, first, what it means to philosophically consider the law and, second, the pivotal issues in contemporary... more
In his recent book, Artefatti giuridici. Il diritto tra intenzione, storia, funzione (2023), Corrado Roversi organically expounds his artefactual theory of law, a theory that aims to account for the institutional dimension of legal... more
In this introduction to this special issue of the Journal we broadly consider the problem of white-collar and corporate crime in Asia. Official reports from China show the pervasiveness of current problems and the inherent dangers... more
A presente dissertação pretende abordar a correlação entre o jusnaturalismo neoclássico e a territorialidade hermenêutica dos direitos humanos, demonstrando que esta vertente do direito natural é a matriz teórica que melhor se coaduna com... more
Исследование поручительства в древней Греции сталкивается с проблемой неадекватности описания древнегреческих правовых институтов с помощью современной юридической терминологии. Влияние современных правовых конструкций и римского права... more
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Il contributo intende approfondire alcune questioni sollevate dalla pronuncia costituzionale che ha definito il caso Priolo (sentenza n. 105 del 2024), con particolare riguardo al ruolo delle giurisdizioni nell’attuazione del nuovo... more
This research seeks to explore an aspect of the Ḥanafī school's formation during its early period up to the middle of the fifth century AH, namely the emergence of marginalization, with a particular focus on the works of al-Nātifī (d.... more
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This chapter examines the concept of ‘positive sanctions’, or what may be termed the ‘promotional function’ of law. Silvia Zorzetto argues that normative phenomena based on incentives, public information and awareness campaigns,... more
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1 The topics of juridical everyday‐business are rel‐ atively short lived and the commentary on this everyday‐practice frequently runs behind. Fol‐ lowing the rapid development of High‐Court ju‐ risdiction, especially at the EU‐level, we... more
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This research analyzes how the institutional testing of legal norms in Indonesia, specifically discussing the institutional problems. This research is a normative legal study with the approaches used being the statutory approach and the... more
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The contribution analyzes key argumentative passages of the Priolo judgment (Italian Constitutional Court, no. 105 of 2024), with the aim of developing broader constitutional reflections. This is a significant ruling on environmental... more
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Preface by Daniel C. Scherer and Introduction of my book, "Thomas Aquinas' General Theory of the Laws - Contributions for the Recovery of Classical Thomistic Natural Law" (in Portuguese). The first edition is already sold out. The second... more
Збірник, присвячений 35-річчю Музею зб. наук. ст. / [під ред. В. Бендеровського, Я. Риженка, М. Гавриленка]; Полтав. держ. музей ім. В. Г. Короленка. – Полтава: 1-ша раддрукарня «Полтава-поліграф», 1928. – Т. І. – 296 с.: 82 іл., 8 табл.... more
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