Jurisprudence of values or jurisprudence of principles is a school of legal philosophy. This school represents, according to some authors, a step in overcoming the contradictions of legal positivism and, for this reason, it has been considered by some authors as a post-positivism school. Jurisprudence of values is referred to in various works all over the world.

This modus of thinking of focuses on constitutional principles.

The jurisprudence of values centers on the concepts of incidence and interpretation of the legal norm, as well as rules and principles, and concepts like equality, freedom, and justice.

Juridical norms

According to Pontes de Miranda, "The juridical rule is the norm with which the man, willing to subordinate the events to an order and foreseeability, tries to distribute the life's goods". Mankind seeks to somehow control the facts; the juridical norm is used as a tool to decide what is right and wrong. The norm, according to this school, is seen as a creation of man, thus man is controlling man.

Pontes de Miranda explains the concept of fact support. Fact support is the fact that is previewed by the norm; it is the abstract fact; it is the fact that, if it is verified true in the world of facts the norm will fall upon it. In other words, there is a world of concrete facts and there is another world of ideas or types. Thus, the legislator tries to use words to group possible concrete facts into sets, related to the world of ideas. This paradigm makes possible to attribute judicial effects to life's facts.

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Further reading

  • Alexy, Robert (2002). A Theory of Constitutional Rights. Translated by Rivers, Julian. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-825821-6.
  • Ávila, Humberto (2007). Theory of Legal Principles. Law and Philosophy Library. Vol. 81. Translated by Todeschini, Jorge. Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 978-1-4020-5878-3.
  • Barroso, Luís Roberto. Interpretação e aplicação da Constituição, 3 ed. São Paulo: Saraiva, 1999.
  • Barroso, Luís Roberto. O Direito Constitucional e a Efetividade de Suas Normas: Limites e Possibilidades da Constituição Brasileira, 6 ed. Rio de Janeiro: Renovar, 2002.
  • Kelsen, Hans (1945). General Theory of Law and State. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  • Kelsen, Hans (1957). What is Justice?: Justice, Law, and Politics in the Mirror of Science: Collected Essays. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Kelsen, Hans (1967). . Translated by Knight, Max (2 ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Larenz, Karl [in German] (1991). Methodenlehre der Rechtswissenschaft. Enzyklopädie der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaft, Abteilung Rechtswissenschaft (in German) (6 ed.). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-540-52872-2.
  • Pontes de Miranda, Francisco Cavalcanti. Tratado de Direito Privado, V. I. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Borsoi, 1954.

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