Legal formalism: rise, decline and rebirth
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https://doi.org/10.53798/suprema.2022.v2.n1.a154Keywords:
legal formalism, legal interpretation, jurisprudence, legal argumentation, judicial reviewAbstract
This paper intends to present a typology of styles of legal interpretation, associating them with the role of constitutional jurisdiction. In the proposed typology, four hermeneutic models are classified: classical legal formalism, associated with privatism and nineteenth-century liberalism; anti-formalism, linked to the emergence of the social state; the interpretive idealization of law, identified in the second half of the 20th century; contemporary legal formalism. Particularly, in reference to this last model, it is argued that several current trends in jurisprudence have converged to recover the importance of elements associated with a formalist view of law, such as deference to literal meanings of normative texts, syllogistic structuring and deductive inference in reasoning or even the research of the legislative history. It indicates how this practice can be fine-tuned to a procedural approach of constitutional review.
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