Critical Dimensions of the ‘Legal Culture’ Approach: The Case of Classical Eurasianism and Eurasia’s Legal Union

• Authors: Bulat Nazmutdinov
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper refers to the accurate usage of the word “Eurasian”, which is tightly connected with Russian Eurasianism, an intellectual movement that existed in the Interwar period, in the years 1921–1939. Nowadays, the concept of “Legal Culture” is rendered banal by comparative legal thinkers, who reduce it to legal tradition or even the legal system as a social system. In contrast to these theories, the Eurasianist jural project was mostly culture-oriented. For instance, the Eurasianist idea of Language Union, provided by Nikolai Trubetzkoy and the famous linguist Roman Jakobson, could be useful for developing a new concept of Legal Union instead of the idea of legal family. Piotr Savitzky’s notion of “Mestorazvitie”, Jakobson’s “method of linking”, and Nickolai Alekseev’s idea of “Right-Duty” could be very fruitful concepts for establishing cultural jurisprudence.

Keywords

EN

Legal Culture; Critical Legal Theory; Classical Eurasianism; Сultural Turn; Legal Union; Legal Family; Mestorazvitie

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Iuridica
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 89
• Pages: 81-93

Dates

published

2019-12-29

Contributors

author

Bulat Nazmutdinov

• Associate professor at Law Faculty of National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Chair of Legal Theory and History of Law

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7037-8381

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/0208-6069.89.06