From the concept to the rule of law: the Kramer–Postema debate

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  • Gilberto Morbach Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/rechtd.2024.161.09

Abstract

In this essay, my main goal is to present an important debate in contemporary jurisprudence: the debate between Matthew Kramer and Gerald Postema about the conditions for law itself to exist as a distinctive system of Governance and the demands of legality. Since the debate resonates some of the theses that were first presented by Lon Fuller in The Morality of Law, I also seek to present them in general terms and then defend what seems to me to be their best, most adequate interpretation. This way, drawing precisely upon Fuller’s work — contextualised and correctly understood —, I seek to articulate a defence of Postema’s arguments about the existence and rule of law.

Author Biography

Gilberto Morbach, Universidade de São Paulo

Pesquisador de pós-doutorado na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo (FD-USP), com bolsa da Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP). Doutor em Direito, summa cum laude, como bolsista do Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) na Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos). Pesquisador visitante no Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy (CFLPP), como bolsista do Programa PDSE da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), na Universidade de Cambridge. Mestre em Direito Público, summa cum laude, como bolsista do CNPq na Unisinos. Membro fundador (com José Reinaldo de Lima Lopes) do Núcleo Direito Justiça (FD-USP). Membro fundador (com José Reinaldo de Lima Lopes, Stefano Bertea, Angela Condello e Alessio Lo Giudice) do Seminário Permamente de Filosofia do Direito USP/UniMe, em parceria com a Universidade de Messina. Membro da Iris Murdoch Society. Tradutor. Advogado.

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2024-10-15

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2024): Janeiro/Abril

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