Skip to main navigation menu Skip to main content Skip to site footer
##common.pageHeaderLogo.altText##

Articles

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2015): Brazilian Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

The Brazilian legal dogmatics of the “realization of social and economic rights” under trial: methodological reflections based on a contextualist approach

DOI
https://doi.org/10.19092/reed.v2i2.78
Submitted
July 30, 2015
Published
2015-07-30

Abstract

The Brazilian law community has seen a proliferation
of legal essays and academic papers in recent years
focused on proposing legal solutions to the problem
of realization of social and economic rights. In most
cases, however, these efforts ignore the epistemological
and methodological difficulties imposed on the
task of giving meaning to the statements that compose
them, resulting in a semantic emptiness of the
discourse as a whole. This article surveys some recent
contributions on philosophy of language, on contextualist
epistemologies, on theory of law and on development
studies, fields directly linked to the problem
addressed here, to identify the methodological challenges
imposed on the discourse building process
that engage the scientist of law devoted to the problem
of the realization of the social and economic constitutional
rights in the Brazilian context, arguing that
its meaning depends on the weighing and balancing
of methodological principles observed by scientists
of other fields, but still ignored by most of the Brazilian
legal community.

References

  1. Aarnio, A. (1987). The Rational as Reasonable: A Treatise on Legal Justification: Springer.
  2. Aarnio, A. (2011). Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law: Springer.
  3. Aarnio, A., & MacCormick, N. (1992). Legal reasoning: New York University Press, Reference Collection.
  4. Akerlof, G. (1970). The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 84.
  5. Alexy, R. (1989). A theory of legal argumentation: the theory of rational discourse as theory of legal justification: Clarendon Press.
  6. Alexy, R. (2009). A Theory of Constitutional Rights: Oxford University Press.
  7. Alexy, R. (2010). The Argument from Injustice: A Reply to Legal Positivism: Oxford University Press.
  8. Alves, C. L. (2013). Direito à Saúde: Efetividade e proibição do retrocesso social: Editora D'Plácido.
  9. Annis, D. B. (1978). A contextualist theory of epistemic justification. American Philosophical Quarterly, 213-219.
  10. Artstein, Z. (2014). Mathematics and the Real World: The Remarkable Role of Evolution in the Making of Mathematics: Prometheus Books.
  11. Bacha, E. L. (1982). Crescimento com oferta limitada de divisas: Uma reavaliação do modelo de dois hiatos. Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico, Agosto 01, 285-310.
  12. Bacha, E. L. (1990). A three-gap model of foreign transfers and the GDP growth rate in development countries. Journal of Development Economics, 279-296.
  13. Barber, A., & Stainton, R. J. (2010). Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics: Elsevier Science.
  14. Berman, H. J. (2006). Direito e revolução: a formação da tradição jurídica ocidental: Unisinos.
  15. Bianchi, A. M. (2010). Reflexões sobre o Passado e Especulações sobre o Futuro da Metodologia Econômica. Revista EconomiA.
  16. Borgatta, E. F., & Montgomery, R. J. V. (2000). Encyclopedia of sociology (Vol. 5): Macmillan Library Reference.
  17. Brasil. (2012). Supremo Tribunal Federal, Inq 3412/AL. Relator para acórdão: Min. Rosa Weber. Brasília.
  18. Brasil. (2013a). Supremo Tribunal Federal, ADI 1842/RJ. Relator para acórdão: Min. Gilmar Mendes.
  19. Brasil. (2013b). Supremo Tribunal Federal, ADI 2340/SC. Relator: Min. Ricardo Lewandowski.
  20. Burman, E., & MacLure, M. (2005). Deconstruction as a Method of Research. In S. Bridget & L. Cathy (Eds.), Research Methods in the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.
  21. Calabresi, G. (1985). Ideals, Beliefs, Attitudes, and the Law: Private Law Perspectives on a Public Law Problem: Syracuse University Press.
  22. Calabresi, G. (1991). The pointlessness of Pareto: carrying Coase further. Yale Law Journal, 1211-1237.
  23. Calabresi, G., & Bobbitt, P. (1978). Tragic choices: Norton New York.
  24. Callaghan, G., & Lavers, G. (2010). Logic and Language: Philosophical Aspects: Elsevier Science.
  25. Carnap, R. (1968). The logical structure of the world: Univ of California Press.
  26. Carnap, R. (1988). Meaning and necessity: a study in semantics and modal logic: University of Chicago Press.
  27. Coase, R. H. (1960). The problem of social cost. Journal of Law and Economics, 3, 1.
  28. Coase, R. H. (1992). The institutional structure of production. The American Economic Review, 713-719.
  29. Coase, R. H. (2012). The firm, the market and the law: University of Chicago Press.
  30. Cohen, S. (2000). Contextualism and skepticism. Philosophical issues, 10(1), 94-107.
  31. Cook, W. W. (1927). Scientific method and the law. American Bar Association Journal, 303-309.
  32. Cook, W. W. (1933). " Substance" and" Procedure" in the Conflict of Laws. Yale Law Journal, 333-358.
  33. Cook, W. W. (1949). The Logical and Legal Bases of the Conflict of Laws: Harvard University Press.
  34. Cooter, R., & Ulen, T. (2013). Law and Economics: Pearson New International Edition: Pearson Education, Limited.
  35. Courtis, C. (2008). Critérios de justiciabilidade dos direitos econômicos, sociais e culturais: uma breve exploração. In D. Sarmento & C. P. d. Souza Neto (Eds.), Direitos Sociais: Fundamentos, Judicialização e Direitos Sociais em espécie. São Paulo: Editora Lumen Juris.
  36. Cunha, J. R. (2005). Direitos humanos e justiciabilidade: pesquisa no Tribunal de Justiça do Rio de Janeiro. Revista internacional de direitos humanos: SUR.
  37. da Silva, J. A. (2007). Aplicabilidade das normas constitucionais (7ª ed.). São Paulo: Malheiros Editores.
  38. Davidson, D., & Harman, G. (1972). Semantics of natural language (Vol. 40): Reidel Dordrecht.
  39. DeRose, K. (2002). Assertion, knowledge, and context. Philosophical Review, 167-203.
  40. Dilthey, W. (1979). Dilthey: Selected Writings: Cambridge University Press.
  41. Durkheim, E. (2014). The rules of sociological method: and selected texts on sociology and its method: Simon and Schuster.
  42. Dworkin, R. (1978). Taking rights seriously: Harvard University Press.
  43. Dworkin, R. (1985). A matter of principle. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  44. Dworkin, R. (1986). Law's Empire. Boston: Harvard University Press.
  45. Engels, F. (2010). The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: Penguin Books Limited.
  46. Ereshefsky, M. (2000). The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy: Cambridge University Press.
  47. Faoro, R. (1975). Os donos do poder. São Paulo: EDUSP.
  48. Faralli, C. (2006). A filosofia contemporânea do direito: temas e desafios: WMF Martins Fontes.
  49. Feldman, R. (2001). Skeptical Problems, Contextualist Solutions. Philosophical Studies, 103(1), 61-85. doi: 10.1023/A:1010393022562
  50. Ferraz Júnior, T. S. (1997). O discurso da ciência do direito. In T. S. Ferraz Júnior (Ed.), Direito, retórica e comunicação: subsídios para uma pragmática do discurso jurídico: Saraiva.
  51. Ferraz Júnior, T. S. (2000). Teoria da norma jurídica: ensaio de pragmática da comunicação normativa: Editora Forense.
  52. Finnis, J. (2011). Natural Law and Natural Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  53. Fiss, O. M. (1986). Death of the Law. Cornell Law Review, 72.
  54. Frege, G. (1978). Sobre o sentido e a referência. In P. t. Alcoforado (Ed.), Lógica e Filosofia da Linguagem (pp. 59-86). São Paulo: Cultrix.
  55. Friedman, L. M. (1986). The law and society movement. Stanford Law Review, 763-780.
  56. Fullbrook, E. (2008). Pluralist Economics. Londres: Zed Books.
  57. Furtado, C. (2007). Formação Econômica do Brasil. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras.
  58. Gala, P., Rego, J. M., & Arida, P. (2003). A história do pensamento econômico como teoria e retórica: ensaios sobre metodologia em economia: Editora 34.
  59. Golding, M. P., & Edmundson, W. A. (2008). The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory: Wiley.
  60. Grau, E. R. (1982). Os conceitos jurídicos e a doutrina real do direito. Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo, 77, 221-234.
  61. Gray, C. B. (1999). The Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia: Garland.
  62. Greene, J. C., Kreider, H., & Mayer, E. (2005). Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Social Inquiry. In S. Bridget & L. Cathy (Eds.), Research Methods in the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.
  63. Hart, H. L. A., Raz, J., Green, L., & Bulloch, P. A. (2012). The Concept of Law (3ª ed.): Oxford University Press.
  64. Hawthorne, J. (2004). Knowledge and lotteries. Oxford: Clarendon.
  65. Heidegger, M. (2002). The Essence of Truth: On Plato's Parable of the Cave and the Theaetetus: Bloomsbury Academic.
  66. Heidegger, M. (2010). Being and Time: State University of New York Press.
  67. Heijdra, B. J., & Der Ploeg, F. V. (2002). Foundations of Modern Macroeconomics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  68. Holmes Jr, O. W. (1899a). Law in science and science in law. Harvard Law Review, 443-463.
  69. Holmes Jr, O. W. (1899b). The theory of legal interpretation. Harvard Law Review, 417-420.
  70. Holmes Jr, O. W. (2009a). The common law: Harvard University Press.
  71. Holmes Jr, O. W. (2009b). The path of the law: The Floating Press.
  72. Jackman, H. (2010). Contextualism in epistemology. In A. Barber & R. J. Stainton (Eds.), Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, 94-96: Elsevier Science.
  73. Kant, I. (1785). Fundamentação da Metafísica dos Costumes, trad. Paulo Quintela. Lisboa: Edições 70.
  74. Kelsen, H. (1939). Teoria Pura do Direito, trad. José Cretella Júnior (9 ed.): Saraiva.
  75. Kennedy, D. (1973). Legal formality. The Journal of Legal Studies, 351-398.
  76. Kennedy, D. (1976). Form and substance in private law adjudication. Harvard Law Review, 1685-1778.
  77. Kennedy, D. (1981). Cost-benefit analysis of entitlement problems: a critique. Stanford Law Review, 387-445.
  78. Kennedy, D. (1986). Freedom and constraint in adjudication: A critical phenomenology. J. Legal Educ., 36, 518.
  79. Kennedy, D. (2001). The International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem? European Human Rights Law Review.
  80. Komesar, N. (2013). Logic of the Law and the Essence of Economics: Reflections on Forty Years in the Wilderness. The Wisconsin Law Review, 265-338.
  81. Komesar, N. K. (1984). Taking Institutions Seriously: Introduction to a Strategy for Constitutional Analysis. The University of Chicago Law Review, 366-446.
  82. Komesar, N. K. (1994). Imperfect alternatives: choosing institutions in law, economics, and public policy: University of Chicago Press.
  83. Komesar, N. K. (1997a). Exploring the Darkness: Law, Economics, and Institutional Choice. Wis. L. Rev., 465.
  84. Komesar, N. K. (1997b). The Perils of Pandora: Further Reflections on Institutional Choice. Law & Social Inquiry, 22(4), 999-1009.
  85. Kripke, S. (1977). Speaker's reference and semantic reference. Midwest studies in philosophy, 2(1), 255-276.
  86. Lankshear, C., & Leander, K. M. (2005). Social Science Research in Virtual Realities. In S. Bridget & L. Cathy (Eds.), Research Methods in the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.
  87. Llewellyn, K. N. (1930). A Realistic Jurisprudence--The Next Step. Columbia Law Review, 431-465.
  88. Llewellyn, K. N. (1940). The Normative, the Legal, and the Law-Jobs: The Problem of Juristic Method. Yale Law Journal, 1355-1400.
  89. Llewellyn, K. N. (1996). The common law tradition: Deciding appeals: WS Hein.
  90. Llewellyn, K. N. (2011a). Jurisprudence: Realism in theory and practice (Vol. 1): Transaction publishers.
  91. Llewellyn, K. N. (2011b). The Theory of Rules. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  92. Llewellyn, K. N., & Schauer, F. (2011). The Theory of Rules. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  93. Lukács, G. (1980). The ontology of social being.
  94. MacCormick, N., & Weinberger, O. (1986). An Institutional Theory of Law: New Approaches to Legal Positivism: D. Reidel Publishing Company.
  95. MacFarlane, J. (2005). The assessment sensitivity of knowledge attributions. Oxford studies in epistemology, 1, 197-233.
  96. Marmor, A. (1991). Coherence, holism, and interpretation: The epistemic foundations of Dworkin's legal theory. Law and Philosophy, 10(4), 383-412.
  97. Martin, R. M. (2010). Meaning: Overview of Philosophical Theories. In A. Barber & R. J. Stainton (Eds.), Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics (pp. 433-437): Elsevier Science.
  98. Marx, K. (1876). Capital. Harmondsworth: Penguin Ed.
  99. Marx, K. (1892). Poverty of philosophy.
  100. Mello e Souza, L. d. (1999). Raymundo Faoro - Os Donos do Poder Introdução ao Brasil: Um Banquete no Trópico (pp. 337-355). São Paulo: SENAC.
  101. Mill, J. S. (1974). A System of Logic Ratiocinative and Inductive Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation (Vol. I-VI). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  102. Neta, R. (2003). Contextualism and the Problem of the External World. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 66(1), 1-31.
  103. Nourse, V., & Shaffer, G. (2009). Varieties of New Legal Realism: Can a New World Order prompt a a New Legal Theory? Cornell Law Review, 95.
  104. Oliveira Fiho, J. J. (1976). Reconstruções metodológicas de processos de investigação social. Paper presented at the Mesa de Epistemologia da 28ª Reunião da Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência, Brasília.
  105. Oliveira Filho, J. J. (1995). Patologia e regras metodológicas - Caderno de Teoria das Ciências Humanas. Estudos Avançados, 9.
  106. Pavlakos, G., & Alexy, R. (2007). Law, rights and discourse: the legal philosophy of Robert Alexy.
  107. Piovesan, F., & Vieira, R. S. (2006). Justiciabilidade dos direitos sociais e econômicos no Brasil: desafios e perspectivas. Araucaria. Revista Iberoamericana de Filosofía, Política y Humanidades(15), 128-146.
  108. Pontes de Miranda, F. C. (1972). Sistema de ciência positiva do direito (Vol. v. 1-3). Rio de Janeiro: Editor Borsoi.
  109. Popper, K. R. (1957). A miséria do historicismo. São Paulo: EDUSP.
  110. Porter, R., Porter, T. M., & Ross, D. (2003). The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 7, The Modern Social Sciences: Cambridge University Press.
  111. Posner, R. A. (1972). A theory of negligence. The Journal of Legal Studies, 29-96.
  112. Posner, R. A. (1983). The Economics of Justice: Harvard University Press.
  113. Posner, R. A. (1993). The Problems of Jurisprudence: Harvard University Press.
  114. Posner, R. A. (2004). Frontiers of Legal Theory. Boston: Harvard University Press.
  115. Posner, R. A. (2007). Problemas da Filosofia do Direito. São Paulo: Martins Fontes.
  116. Posner, R. A. (2014). Economic Analysis of Law: Wolters Kluwer.
  117. Quetelet, A. (1835). Sur l'homme et le développement de ses facultés ou essai de physique sociale: Bachelier.
  118. Quetelet, A. (1869). Physique sociale.
  119. Quetelet, A. (1870). Anthropométrie: ou, Mesure des différentes facultés de l'homme: C. Muquardt.
  120. Rodrik, D. (2006). Goodbye Washington Consensus, Hello Washington Confusion - Review of the World Bank's Economic Growth in the 1990s: Learning from a Decade of Reform. Journal of Economic Literature, 44(4).
  121. Ross, A. (1971). Lógica de las Normas. Madri: Tecnos.
  122. Schapiro, M. G., & Trubek, D. (2012). Redescobrindo o Direito e Desenvolvimento: experimentalismo, pragmatismo democrático e diálogo horizontal. In M. G. Schapiro & D. Trubek (Eds.), Direito e Desenvolvimento: um diálogo entre os Brics. Sao Paulo: Saraiva.
  123. Schleiermacher, F., & Bowie, A. (1998). Schleiermacher: hermeneutics and criticism: and other writings: Cambridge University Press.
  124. Schleiermacher, F. D. E. (1986). Foundations: General theory and art of interpretation. Transl. J. Duke & J. Forstman. In K. Mueller-Vollmer (Ed.), The hermeneutics reader: Texts of the German tradition from the enlightenment to the present, 72-97.
  125. Schmidt, L. K. (2006). Understanding Hermeneutics: Acumen.
  126. Sen, A. (2000). Desenvolvimento como Liberdade. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras.
  127. Sen, A. (Producer). (2012). Austerity is undermining Europe's grand vision. The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/03/austerity-europe-grand-vision-unity
  128. Sombart, W. (1929). Economic theory and economic history. The Economic History Review, 2(1), 1-19.
  129. Sombart, W., & Nussbaum, F. L. (1933). History of the economic institutions of modern Europe.
  130. Spector, H. (2004). The Future of Legal Science in Civil Law Systems. Louisiana Law Review, 65, 255.
  131. Spencer, H. (1873). The study of sociology (Vol. 5): Henry S. King.
  132. Spencer, H. (1895). The principles of sociology (Vol. 1): Appleton.
  133. Sullivan, A. (2010). Causal Theories of Reference and Meaning. In A. Barber & R. J. Stainton (Eds.), Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics: Elsevier Science.
  134. Tarski, A. (1944). The semantic conception of truth: and the foundations of semantics. Philosophy and phenomenological research, 4(3), 341-376.
  135. Tarski, A. (1956). The concept of truth in formalized languages. Logic, semantics, metamathematics, 2, 152-278.
  136. Tonnies, F. (1940). Fundamental concepts of sociology.
  137. Tonnies, F. (1957). Community and society: Courier Dover Publications.
  138. Tonnies, F. (2014). Custom: an essay on social codes (Vol. 1): Transaction Publishers.
  139. Tushnet, M. V. (1983). Following the rules laid down: A critique of interpretivism and neutral principles. Harvard Law Review, 781-827.
  140. Tushnet, M. V. (2000). Taking the Constitution away from the Courts: Princeton University Press.
  141. Unger, R. M. (1976). Knowledge and politics: Simon and Schuster.
  142. Unger, R. M. (1983). The critical legal studies movement. Harvard Law Review, 561-675.
  143. Unger, R. M. (1996). What Should Legal Analysis Become? : Verso.
  144. Weber, M. (1978). Economy and society: An outline of interpretive sociology: Univ of California Press.
  145. Weber, M. (2004). Ciência e política: duas vocações: Editora Cultrix.
  146. Weber, M. (2009). The theory of social and economic organization: Simon and Schuster.
  147. Wieacker, F. (1995). A History of Private Law in Europe: With Particular Reference to Germany: Clarendon Press.
  148. Williamson, J. (1989). What Washington Means by Policy Reform Latin American Readjustment: How Much has Happened. Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics.
  149. World Bank, T. (2005). Economic Growth in the 1990's: Learning from a Decade of Reform. Washington, DC: The World Bank.
  150. World Bank, T. (2008). The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development: The World Bank.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.