O НАУЧНОСТИ НЕКОЛИКО САВРЕМЕНИХ МУЛТИДИСЦИПЛИНАРНИХ ПРАВНИХ ТЕОРИЈА
SCHOLARLY GROUNDS OF SOME CONTEMPORARY MULTIDISCIPLINARY LEGAL THEORIES

Summary/Abstract: legal theories suffer from the same methodological and epistemological flaws, involving a number of arbitrarily chosen basic elements, premises or benefits. These flows give rise to further problems, such as relativization of values and untruthfulness in Popper’s terms of truthfulness as regularity, amorality, and tendency to overstate the claims. On the one hand, there may be some political benefit from the attempts to propose, announce as the final, or justify some socially doubtful projects. On the other hand, multidisciplinary legal theories either ignore or overstate the existing ethical problems, depending on status, clarity and reliability of their methodology and terminology. In addition, these theories tend to relativize different ethical issues, if these issues do not match with their previously set goals. The author concludes that the multidisciplinary legal theories are two-faced like Janus. Nevertheless, they have gained a strong impetus at the turn of the 20th century. One of the two faces reveal the damage inflicted on science and society by the well paid „academic scribblers“ and „hired publicists“ – as Charles Right Mills used to refer to them. The other face shows that not all the proponents of these theories have chosen to earn their living this way, but are truthfully dedicated to participating in the legal and social experiment which is currently underway.

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