Understanding Communicative Legal Theory
Abstract
The article is dedicated to the main features of the communicative theory of law. The works of legal scholars concerning with the development of the communicative concept of law have been analyzed. Its practical application in the legal system of the Kyrgyz Republic has been examined. Theoretical and legal analysis of the scientific debate about the communicative theory of law determines its personalistic and humanitarian orientation. A feature of the communicative concept of law developed by professor A.V. Polyakov, is that it is based on an integrative approach to legal thinking. As part of the communicative theory of law paper is synthesizing sociological and psychological concepts of law. The right is considered as psychological-socio-cultural integrity. Underlying this approach is the relationship of human and his rights and duties. The article analyzes the main features of the right: the presence of entities with interdependent (correlative) rights and obligations; the presence of social recognized and generally binding rules of conduct. Communicative theory of law raises the question of the feasibility of expanding the scope of the fictions of the technical and legal administration, aimed at overcoming the conservatism of methodological tools to understand the law. At the same time, it is necessary to explore the practical application of this theory in the context of globalization and legal convergence. In accordance with the communicative theory of law legal communication, expressed in meaningful behavior of people who are aware of their legal rights and duties. However, the actual relations linking the two entities, in their view, the rights and duties are not, if they are not normative. Communicative theory of law has received mostly positive reviews within the scientific community. Disputable certain provisions of the communicative theory of law is expressed as follows. Legal scholars pay attention to the ambiguity of the phenomenological reduction of legal eidos, which can lead to subjective interpretation of the scholar concept (Kozlihin I.J.), the widespread use of different legal concepts borrowed from other sciences (Y.I. Grevtsov) and wide enough the definition of rights (Romashov R.A.), etc. In general, communicative theory of law presents an interdisciplinary approach. This concept demonstrates the development of integrative approaches to legal thinking in modern jurisprudence.
References
Alekseev N.N. (1998) Osnovy filosofii prava [Fundamentals of Philosophy of Law]. Saint Petersburg: Peterburgskiy yuridicheskiy institut, 216 p. (in Russian)
Grafskiy V.G. (2003) Ponimanie prava: nekotorye aktual'nye aspekty Traditsionnoy temy [Understanding Law: Topical Issues of the Traditional Topic]. Trudy MGYuA, no 10.
Gurvitch G. (2004) Filosofiya i sotsiologiya prava: Izbr. soch. [Philosophy and Sociology of Law. Selected Works]. Saint Petersburg: University Publishing, 848 p. (in Russian)
Kistyakovskiy B.A. (1999) Sotsial'nye nauki i pravo [Social Sciences and Law]. Filosofiya i sotsiologiya prava [Philosophy and Sociology of Law]. Saint Petersburg: RKhGI Publishing, 800 p. (in Russian)
Martyshin O.V. (2003) Sovmestimy li osnovnye tipy ponimaniya prava? [Do the Major Types of Legal Consciousness Agree?] Gosudarstvo i pravo, no 6, p. 13-21.
Mukhamet-Irekle A. (2003) Glavnoe v pravoponimanii — metodologiya (Methodology as the Main Feature of Legal Consciousness). Trudy MGYuA, no 10, p. 60-65.
Polyakov A.V. (2003) Obshchaya teoriya prava: Fenomenologo-kommunikativnyy podkhod: Kurs lektsiy [General Theory of Law: Phenomenology and Communicative Approach. Lectures]. Saint Petersburg: Yuridicheskiy tsentr Press, 845 p. (in Russian)
Polyakov A.V. (2002) Kommunikativnaya kontseptsiya prava (genezis i teoretiko-pravovoe obosnovanie). (Diss. Doktor Jurid. Nauk) [Communicative Concept of Law (Genesis and Legal Rationale) (Doctor of Juridical Sciences Dissertation as a Research Report)]. Saint Petersburg, 35 p.
Polyakov A.V. (2004) Obshchaya teoriya prava: Problemy interpretatsii v kontekste kommunikativnogo podkhoda. Saint Petersburg.: Izdatel'skiy dom Sankt-Peterburgskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 864 p. (in Russian)
Romashov R.A. (2005) Realisticheskiy pozitivizm: Integrativnyy Tip sovremennogo pravoponimaniya [Realistic Positivism: integrated type of Modern Legal Understanding]. Kontseptsii sovremennogo pra-voponimaniya. R. A. Romashov, N. S. Nizhnik (eds.). Saint Petersburg: Librokom, p. 8-23.
Shershenevich G.F. (2001) Kurs grazhdanskogo prava [Course of Civil Law]. Tula: Avtograf, 720 p. (in Russian)
Timoshina E.V. (2002) Sovremennye problemy pravoponimaniya: Obsuzhdenie monografii A.V. Polyakova «Obshchaya teoriya prava» [Modern Issues of Legal Understanding: Discussing the Monograph by A.V. Polyakov General Theory of Law]. Pravovedenie, no 4, p. 213-223.
Trubetskoy E.N. Entsiklopediya prava (2012). Saint Petersburg: Librokom, 234 p. (in Russian)
Yashchenko A. S. (1999) Filosofiya prava Vladimira Solov'eva. Teoriya federalizma. Opyt sinteticheskoy teorii prava i gosudarstva [Philosophy of Law of Vladimir Solovyov. Theory of Federalizm. Essay on Synthetic Theory of Law and State]. Saint Petersburg: Aleteya Publishing, 256 p.
Yashchenko A. S. (1912) Sinteticheskaya teoriya prava v yuridicheskikh naukakh [Synthetic Theory of Law in Legal Sciences]. Zhurnal Ministerstva yustitsii, no 1, p. 128-142.
Copyright (c) 2015 Law. Journal of the Higher School of Economics
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
