Vol. 14 No. 1 (2014): Law and Social Practice

This issue welcomes a debate on the social ontology of law. This is a debate generated by Carlos Bernal's article "Austin, Hart and Shapiro: three variations around the law as an entity founded on social practice". This discussion shows that the debate basically concerns process-ontology. As an entity, or better, a set of entities, the law is ontologically different from the process that generates it. So if we want to inquire about the nature of law, we must distinguish the ontology-process from the ontology-result (or ontology-entity).