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Record Nr.

UNINA9911007351803321

Autore

Marinoni Luiz Guilherme

Titolo

Culture and Predictability of Law : A Justification from a Modern Historical Perspective / / by Luiz Guilherme Marinoni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

3-031-87161-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VII, 72 p. 2 illus.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Law, , 2192-8568

Disciplina

342

Soggetti

Constitutional law

Civil law

Civil procedure

Law - Philosophy

Conflict of laws

International law

Comparative law

Constitutional Law

Civil Law

Civil Procedure Law

Philosophy of Law

Private International Law, International and Foreign Law, Comparative Law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction -- 2 Protestantism, Capitalism, Rationality of Law and Predictability in Weber. Between the Common Law and the Civil Law of the End of the Nineteenth Century -- 3 The Tansformation of Civil Law -- 4 Personalism, Patrimonialism, Cult of Irrationality and Contempt for Predictability in Brazil -- 5 Justification for a System of Precedents.

Sommario/riassunto

This book aims to identify the sociological reasons that resulted in the perceived lack of authority of precedents in civil law systems, starting from the premise that common law systems rely on precedents, while civil law systems do not. The reasoning is based on the sociology of law, mainly on Max Weber’s theory, legal theory, and constitutional law.



English common law, seen by Weber as a law devoid of formal rationality mainly because it does not allow for generalization and comprehensiveness, became a predictable system through stare decisis. This serves to highlight not only that it is not to be confused with common law but especially to clarify that “binding precedents” are necessary as the law moves away from calculability. The transformation of civil law due to the impact of constitutionalism, the increasingly widespread use of general clauses, and the evolution of the theory of interpretation eliminated the pretensions of logical positivism and, consequently, the predictability upon which it would be achievable. However, if the law contemplated by Weber ceased to exist and the new law came to depend largely on the subjectivity of the judge, this does not mean that society could remain helpless and devoid of guarantees of predictability and equality, as the new profile of civil law could not be compatible with a coherent legal order and a rational distribution of justice. In the end, the book seeks to demonstrate the fundamentality of precedent for the unity and development of law, clarity and generality, promotion of equality, institutional strengthening, limitation of state power, predictability, economic rationality, respect for the law, and increased personal responsibility.