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System and flexibility in law

Katharina Sobota

subject

Linguistics and Languagemedia_common.quotation_subjectCommunication studiesMetaphysicsPolitical communicationEpistemologyPhilosophyLegal realismLawRhetoricSelf-referenceSociologyLegal professionmedia_common

description

Usually, rhetoric is supposed to provide a model of law which describes legal interactions as volitive, arbitrary, and void of any system. However, the Mainz School, founded by Theodor Viehweg, proves the contrary: without referring to any metaphysics, such as consensus or auditoire universel, it seeks to discover the systematic character and the more or less flexible structures of legal rhetoric.

https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00128811