New Legal Realism: A Promising Legal Theory For Interdisciplinary And Empirical Disability-Research

IF 1 Q2 LAW Novum Jus Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.14718/novumjus.2022.16.1.9
Adriana Carolina Caballero Pérez
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New Legal Realism (NLR) is a relevant theoretical strand advancing a constructive relationship between law and the social sciences. NLR broadens the ‘scene’ in legal studies by placing legal issues in their broader social contexts and follows the aspiration of the scientific study of law. Based on the literature review, this article presents a brief discussion on NLR. It argues that an NLR approach might be useful for carrying out research on compliance with (international) law in practice, i.e., the ‘law-in-action’. This article finds that four main characteristics of NLR, mainly its law-centred, interdisciplinary, empirical, and constructive legal action character yields useful results to analyse States’ compliance with the law. It concludes that an NLR approach contributes to moving from exploring law in books to investigate ‘law-in-action’. This involves analysing compliance with the (international) law through domestic law and policy instruments, as well as compliance through social practices. This means to explore the social context within which the law operates. In other words, to investigate the impact of the law at the point of delivery (or the ‘law-in-action’). The underlying purpose of this article is thus to call for collaborative action among legal and social scientific researchers by considering to adopt novel theories, such as NLR, to mix normative legal analysis with consideration of broader and holistic perspectives on the law. Lastly, due to the current research interests of the author, this article includes a brief reflection on adopting an NLR approach to analyse State Parties compliancewith the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD). Notably, in the available literature, this is an underexplored issue.
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新法律现实主义:一个有前途的跨学科和实证残疾研究的法律理论
新法律现实主义(NLR)是推动法律与社会科学之间建设性关系的相关理论。NLR通过将法律问题置于更广泛的社会背景中,拓宽了法律研究的“场景”,并遵循了法律科学研究的愿望。在文献综述的基础上,本文对NLR进行了简要的探讨。它认为,NLR方法可能有助于开展关于实践中遵守(国际)法的研究,即“现行法律”。本文发现,国家法律关系的四个主要特征,主要是其以法律为中心的、跨学科的、经验的和建设性的法律行为特征,为分析国家遵守法律提供了有益的结果。它的结论是,NLR方法有助于从探索书本上的法律转向研究“行动中的法律”。这包括通过国内法和政策文书分析遵守(国际)法的情况,以及通过社会实践分析遵守情况。这意味着要探索法律运作的社会背景。换句话说,调查法律在交付点(或“行动中的法律”)的影响。因此,本文的根本目的是呼吁法律和社会科学研究人员采取合作行动,考虑采用新颖的理论,如NLR,将规范性法律分析与更广泛和整体的法律观点相结合。最后,由于作者目前的研究兴趣,本文对采用NLR方法分析缔约国遵守《联合国残疾人权利公约》(UN CRPD)的情况进行了简要思考。值得注意的是,在现有文献中,这是一个未被充分探讨的问题。
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Novum Jus LAW-
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