Open AccessLEGAL AESTHETICS, OR THE ART OF THE LAW
Author(s) -
Д. О. Шнигер
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vestnik universiteta imeni o.e. kutafina (mgûa)/vestnik universiteta imeni o. e. kutafina
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2782-6163
pISSN - 2311-5998
DOI - 10.17803/2311-5998.2020.71.7.113-120
Subject(s) - legal realism , dilemma , empirical legal studies , subject (documents) , legal profession , aesthetics , legal research , field (mathematics) , law , legal formalism , philosophy of law , sociology , political science , epistemology , black letter law , art , comparative law , philosophy , computer science , private law , mathematics , library science , pure mathematics
The author focuses on the legal aesthetics dilemma, which appears in the dominant sense that the legal content prevails over the legal form. Some possible reasons and consequences of the aesthetical crisis are considered. The article offers the way to overcome that crisis. To this end the author outlines the new interdisciplinary field of legal studies called legal aesthetics. According to the author’s opinion the aesthetical criteria shall be applied primarily to the legal text and also to all the tools, such as visualisations, which make it more comprehensible. The key issues of the new discipline are scrutinized, such as objectives, subject, method and relations with other legal studies, such as legal technique. The author shows the connection between the legal aesthetics and legal design, arising within philosophy of design-thinking.