Situationist and Normative Concepts of General Clauses.
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Sytuacjonistyczna i normatywna koncepcja klauzul generalnych. Kontekst różnic i punktów stycznych
Situationist and Normative Concepts of General Clauses. The Context of Differences and Common Grounds

Author(s): Leszek Leszczyński
Subject(s): Philosophy of Law, Sociology of Law
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej – Sekcja Polska IVR
Keywords: general clause; situationist and normativist concepts; reference; imperative of evaluating; situational assessment;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the study is to analyse the concept of general clause formulated by Józef Nowacki in its basic form in the 1980s. It focuses on several issues that are most important forthe shape of the concept. The first is the very notion of a clause as an indeterminate phrasethat is part of a legal provision. It corresponds to the crucial components of the situationist concept of the clause – the negation of the referential character of clauses (referenceto general norms or values) in favour of treating the clause as an imperative of evaluating,implemented by the law-applying entity in the form of concrete and situational evaluation.The analysis of Nowacki’s concept leads, in the final sections of the study, to a demonstration of its theoretical implications, which, although not within the mainstream, do not prevent the search for common grounds with the normative concept of the clause, negated by the author.

  • Issue Year: 36/2023
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 66-77
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish
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