2020
DOI: 10.1007/s10982-020-09388-1
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Methodologies of Rule of Law Research: Why Legal Philosophy Needs Empirical and Doctrinal Scholarship

Abstract: Rule of law is a concept that is regularly debated by legal philosophers, often in connection to discussion of the concept of law. In this article, the focus is not on the substance of the conceptual claims, but on the methodologies employed by legal philosophers, investigating seminal articles on the rule of law by Joseph Raz and Jeremy Waldron. I argue that their philosophical argumentations often crucially depend on empirical or legal doctrinal arguments. However, these arguments remain underdeveloped. I ex… Show more

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“…This, according to the scholar, enables different models of legal system development to be tested. A similar view is held by S. Taekema (Taekema, 2021), who also develops a theory of empirical evaluations of the principles of law in order to determine the effectiveness of the legal system and to identify factors influencing legal relations.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 88%
“…This, according to the scholar, enables different models of legal system development to be tested. A similar view is held by S. Taekema (Taekema, 2021), who also develops a theory of empirical evaluations of the principles of law in order to determine the effectiveness of the legal system and to identify factors influencing legal relations.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 88%
“…14 We revisit the idea of form within rule of law thought in Section 3.1. 15 Institutional dimensions of rule of law theory may in turn benefit from empirical research to be fleshed out: see Taekema (2021) for a provocation to a philosophers of the rule of law to pay greater attention to empirical and doctrinal resources. 16 We return to the significance of courts within rule of law thought in Section 2.4. the basic idea underscoring the rule of law, namely, 'that the law should be capable of providing effective guidance' (Raz, 1979: 218).…”
Section: Account #1mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The position of international law in the legal system in general is based on the assumption that international law is a type which is part of law in general. This assumption is based on the fact that international law is an effective set of provisions and principles that actually live in reality so that they have an effective relationship with provisions and principles in other fields of law (Taekema, 2021). The other most important field of law is the field of national law.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%