Abstract
Integral theories of law, nowadays quite frequent in this “postmodern” time, search for the nature or essence of law beyond the classical positions of natural law and legal positivism, entering the world arena of legal theory largely after World War II. Another name has recently begun to be used, namely inclusive theories of law, in order to distinguish them from the so-called exclusive theories of law which include strict natural law and strict legal positivism. These theories seem to offer a more accurate account of law than exclusivist theories, the latter being reductionist in comparison with the former. From amongst these integral or inclusive legal theories, the three-dimensional theory of law is very interesting to me and which I explain by virtue of psychological typology. Since for the jurisprudential re-interpretation of this theory of law I have resorted to Jungian psychological typology, to find it a legal theory context this essay should fall within the realm of works from the province of psychoanalytic jurisprudence.
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Further, conceptions I consider as being constitutive of a particular concept.
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Cf. the concept of law developed by Hart in his The Concept of Law.
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The reader will notice that, in the most parts of this book, I use different concepts such as legal theory, legal philosophy, and jurisprudence interchangeably for the purpose of rather broadly theoretically reflect on the phenomenon of law, finding no particular reason to make the said distinctions.
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His most important book in which he developed this theory is entitled Teoria tridimensional do direito [Three-dimensional Theory of Law] from 1968. Since very few works of Reale were published in English, for a concise but very instructive work in English on his three-dimensional theory of law see Moreira Lima (2008).
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The greatest extreme of such an “empirical” approach to law was the General Land Law for the Prussian States from 1794 containing no fewer than 17,000 paragraphs (Zweigert, Kötz 138).
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Novak, M. (2016). Integral Theories of Law. In: The Type Theory of Law. SpringerBriefs in Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30643-8_1
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