UMA TEORIA DAS FONTES DO DIREITO ROMANO: GENEALOGIA HISTÓRICA DA METÁFORA

• Autor(a) principal: Guandalini Junior, Walter
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da Faculdade de Direito UFPR (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufpr.br/direito/article/view/47101
• topic: História do Direito, Direito Romano.; Direito romano. História do direito. Fontes do direito romano.; Roman law. Legal history. Sources of Roman law.

This paper proposes a change of treatment on the studies about the sources of Roman law: preserving its specifically dogmatic nature, but also avoiding a transcendental legal reasoning, it proposes the resumption of traditional classifications as a heuristic tool to a historically conscious approach of the issue, which emphasizes the controversial character of every systematization of legal sources. Thus, departing from a historical genealogy of the different meanings attributed to the metaphor of “source of law” in antiquity, and from a historical understanding of the concrete political disputes around the process of legal rules formalization in any human society, it intends to demonstrate that the identification of the sources of Roman law can not be taken as a starting point, but always as the final result of legal-historical research – which is compelled to investigate, in order to understand them, the material conditions of legal formalization available to ancient Roman society. This approach allows us to understand the dual constituent-constituted aspect of the sources of Roman law, and may contribute to a better understanding of the mazy historical process of construction of an autonomous legal order by ancient Roman society.