La noción de principios jurídicos en la teoría del derecho de Hermann Heller

Authors

  • Leticia Vita Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5347/43.2015.72

Keywords:

legal principles, Hermann Heller, Weimar, judicial interpretation

Abstract

The Notion of Legal Principles in Hermann Heller´s Theory of Law

While the debate on legal principles reaches its breaking point with the work of Ronald Dworkin and Robert Alexy, it recognizes previous developments and finds one of its deepest formulations in reaction to Inter-War positivist legal thought. In this work we focus on the contributions of social-democratic jurist Hermann Heller to legal theory which –in contrast to those he made to State theory– remain forgotten. We reconstruct his theory of law to show that his ideas about the structure of legal systems and about the foundations of legal principles explain very well the relationship between law and power in modern constitutional States and the role of judges in a democracy, while simultaneously being a precursor to some of those Robert Alexy would later develop.

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Published

2015-10-31

How to Cite

Vita, L. (2015). La noción de principios jurídicos en la teoría del derecho de Hermann Heller. Isonomía - Revista De teoría Y filosofía Del Derecho, (43), 49–75. https://doi.org/10.5347/43.2015.72

Issue

No. 43 (2015): Isonomía 43

Section

Research Articles

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