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• On Law as a Multidisciplinary Phenomenon

  42-50

  Szmodis Jenő

  Megtekintések száma:

  144

  The article introduces the limits of conceptual analysis of law, and the possibilities of functional and multidisciplinary approaches to law. It sketches some stations of the history of legal philosophy emphasizing spreading multidisciplinary tendencies of the philosophy of law. It illuminates some connection of various scientific approaches on the basis of a concrete research relating to the religious roots of Roman law. Finally it outlines vertical and horizontal structures of multidisciplinary legal research, which are based on the ontological levels of reality and special scientific interests.

• Mediation's possible influence on legal research methodology: a window on non-doctrinal legal approaches?

  121-144

  Yousfi Mourad

  Megtekintések száma:

  153

  Doctrinalism's dominance in legal scholarship, particularly in the traditional civil law European countries, has become an accepted truth. Nevertheless, new methodologies for legal research started to emerge and take different approaches to how studying law should be. This is the situation with the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary methodologies, which present external methods that are open to various disciplines. Thus, they contradict doctrinalism's internal logic which is based essentially on the ‘black-letter reasoning’. Mediation is a process of a mixed sociolegal nature that we believe might boost the interest in a multidisciplinary approach, especially under the current context of the increasing regulatory tendencies encouraging recourse to this process and the failure of traditional and more formal procedures such as litigation to provide litigants with cost and time-efficient solutions. Nonetheless, it is reasonable to mention that several hurdles exist, including resistance to mediation to make this contribution. This paper aims to provide an overview of this methodological debate and the potential influence of Mediation as an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanism in this context.