Date: 2021
Type: Article
Law as an argumentative practice : on the pitfalls of confirmatory research, false necessities, and (Kantian) stupidity : comments on Knut Traisbach
Global constitutionalism, 2021, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 208-220
KRATOCHWIL, Friedrich, Law as an argumentative practice : on the pitfalls of confirmatory research, false necessities, and (Kantian) stupidity : comments on Knut Traisbach, Global constitutionalism, 2021, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 208-220
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The comment expands the logic of the critique of the ‘judicialisation’ in the global era and suggests that arguments in support of this development often engage in confirmatory research which weighs the ‘evidence’ in light of our wishes and political projects. The talk about ‘learning’ and ‘dialogue’ cannot sustain this form of judicial paternalism (at best) as an instantiation of emancipation or celebrate it as a victory for law by dispensing with politics. It is just a politics by other means. But in this politics some traditional remedies for insuring the accountability of the ‘rulers’ (or rule-handlers) have been weakened. The comment adds several critical observations about the practices of discourse, law, politics and judging which cannot camouflage the problem of power and its legitimisation. Thus we had better consider also a political alternative which relies on a variety of different institutional solutions where courts have to compete with other institutions without fixed hierarchies and where different sources of legitimacy stand in tension with each other.
Additional information:
Published online: 15 April 2021
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74030
Full-text via DOI: 10.1017/S2045381719000170
ISSN: 2045-3817; 2045-3825
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - CUP Transformative Agreement (2020-2022)
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