TFL Vsebine / Zbornik znanstvenih razprav

Razprava analizira razvoj vloge in pomen pravnih načel v pravnem razlogovanju. V zgodovini so bila pravna načela sicer pomemben del teoretičnega in filozofskega premišljevanja o pravu, redko pa so igrala enako pomembno vlogo pri sodnem odločanju kot pravna pravila. To se spremeni v modernem pravu, ko postanejo pravna načela povsem enakovreden dejavnik v sodnem odločanju. Avtor kritično ovrednoti prevladujoč pristop sodobne pravne teorije, ki pravna pravila in načela obravnava kot dve povsem ločeni pojavnosti (razlikovalna teza), med katerima obstajajo pomembne razlike pri načinu pravnega razlogovanja in razreševanju nasprotij med njimi, kar vodi do prepričanja, da gre za medsebojno izključujoči se kategoriji pravnega razlogovanja. Avtor tako strogo ločevanje zavrača in dokazuje, da je za boljše razumevanje učinkovanja pravnih načel treba opazovati predvsem soočanje pravnih pravil in pravnih načel.

The author analyses shift in the role of legal principles and their importance in legal reasoning. Historically, legal principles played an important role in theoretical and philosophical analysis of law, but rarely guided practical reasoning of judges. In modern law, legal principles have come to be regarded as being able to determine the outcome of judicial decision-making to a degree equal to that of legal rules. The author is critical of modern legal theory’s tendency to approach legal rules and legal principles as two distinct categories of legal norms. In particular, legal principles and legal rules are depicted as mutually exclusive types of legal norms, which prompt different modes of legal reasoning and demand different approaches to resolving the conflicts among themselves. The author tries to dispel these assumptions and argues that a more profound understanding of legal principles can be gained by analysing conflicts among legal rules and legal principles.