CRITIQUE OF THE JUSPOSITIVIST THEORY OF JUDICIAL DECISION

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14210/nej.v29n1.p100-123

Keywords:

Judicial decision-making theory, Legal positivism, Fundamental rights

Abstract

Contextualization: The decision-making paradigm of legal positivism presents two distinct phases, which consist of the exegesis (or mechanistic) period and the normativist (or limited discretion) phase. However, throughout history, there was post-positivist development based on these theories, especially given the level of legal complexity of some cases, in which a considerable degree of judge discretion persists..

Objective: The objective of this article is to discuss the replacement or complementation of the juspositivist model of subsumptive visualization of the phenomenon of judicial decision, due to its excessive formalism, aiming to obtain a version with descriptive fidelity and, also, greater normative potential for the protection of rights fundamental.

Method: Regarding the methodology used, it is noteworthy that the inductive method was used in the research phase, the Cartesian method was used in the data processing phase and the final text was composed on a deductive logical basis.

Results: It was concluded that it is necessary to continue improving legal science, particularly with regard to the theory of judicial decision, overcoming formalistic constructions, in order to refine its descriptive and normative aspects, through the incorporation of recent interdisciplinary discoveries in the fields of economics and psychology, aiming to construct a theoretical paradigm that is more than positivist, and not less, while avoiding regressions to the previous theory of natural law.

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Author Biographies

Marcelo Buzaglo Dantas, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí

Lawyer and legal consultant in the environmental area. Graduated from the Federal University of Santa Catarina-UFSC. Specialist in Civil Procedural Law from PUC-PR. Master and PhD in Diffuse and Collective Rights from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). He was visiting Scholars of the Environmental Law Program at Elisabeth Haub Law School-Pace University (White Plains/NY). Post-Doctorate in Environmental Law, Transnationality and Sustainability from the University of Vale do Itajaí - UNIVALI.

Orlando Luiz Zanon Junior, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí

Judge in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Professor at Universidade do Vale do Itajaí (Univali), Brazil. Doctorade degree in legal sciences from Univali and Università Degli Studi di Perugia (Italy). Masters degree in law from Universidade Estácio de Sá (Unesa). Author of the Complex Theory of Law.

James May, Widener University

James R. May is Distinguished Professor of Law and Founder of the Global Environmental Rights Institute at Widener University Delaware Law School, Visiting Scholar at the Haub School of Law at Pace University, and former Chief Sustainability Officer and Presidential cabinet member at Widener University.

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Published

2024-05-21

How to Cite

DANTAS, M. B.; ZANON JUNIOR, O. L.; MAY, J. CRITIQUE OF THE JUSPOSITIVIST THEORY OF JUDICIAL DECISION. Journal of Law Studies, Itajaí­ (SC), v. 29, n. 1, p. 100–123, 2024. DOI: 10.14210/nej.v29n1.p100-123. Disponível em: https://periodicos.univali.br/index.php/nej/article/view/20325. Acesso em: 23 nov. 2024.

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