The Authority of Law in Contexts of Socio-Economic Unjustice: Ten Years On

Abstract

The text examines broadly the most relevant issues brought about by the debate around Carlos Rosenkrantz’s essay on the authority of law in contexts of social and economic unjustice. In the text Itake stock of the discussion, pointing out some major adjustments that criticisms prompted in Rosenkratz’s position, and I add some further claims. The text also mentions some “new facts” regarding academia and Argentina’s social and political context. I argue for a gradual (in-stead of an “all or nothing”) conception of the authority of law and I propose a revision of the requirements for a suitable theory of legal authority. I also introduce some of the dilemmas that populism poses for a liberal position