25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology
25th IVR World Congress Law and technology
Frankfurt am Main
15–20 August 2011
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The banality of law: some remarks on legal conventionalism
(2012)
- The paper is concerned with the Hartian idea that the justification of law’s normativity can be traced back to the exquisite social fact, viz. special kind of social convention. After discussing the view that the rule of recognition is a coordinative convention A. Marmor’s idea of constitutive convention is introduced. Relying on J. Dickson’s brilliant enquiry I finally argue that this latter idea is deprieved of any explanatory power, which was pressuposed by H.L.A. Hart when he himself reffered to the conventional rule of recognition as social fact having full normative significance.
