Vilhelm Lundstedt's 'Legal Machinery' and Apprehending Juristic Practice
(2018) 29(2) Law and Critique Forthcoming
31 Pages Posted: 20 Feb 2018
Date Written: June 16, 2017
Abstract
This article aims to contribute to the academic debate on the general crisis faced by law schools and the legal professions by discussing why juristic practice is a matter of experience rather than knowledge. Through a critical contextualisation of Vilhelm Lundstedt’s thought under processes of globalisation and transnationalism, it is argued that the demise of the jurist’s function is related to law’s scientification as brought about by the metaphysical construction of reality. The suggested roadmap will in turn reveal that the current voiding of juristic practice and its teaching is part of the crisis regarding what makes us human.
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