Criminal Laws and prostitution: The legal experience challenge for the concept of Legal Culture
Keywords:
Legal culture, Constitutional Court, prostitution, legal experience, cultura jurídica, Tribunal Constitucional, prostitución, experiencia jurídicaAbstract
This study, taking as its starting point Lawrence Friedman’s and David Nelken’s contribution to the elaboration of the concept of “Legal Culture”, interprets some convergent judgments made by the Constitutional Court of three European countries—Italy, France, and Portugal—from the perspective of “legal culture”. To avoid the tautology of explaining culture by invoking cultural norms, it seems possible either to leave “legal culture” in the background in empirical research or to refer to a more succinct concept, such as “legal experience”. This approach is consistent with the theory of legal pluralism and projects the law into the broader field of cultural problems. From this perspective, the apparent uniformity and rationality of the decisions offered by the structural-functionalist analysis, especially its European version, is called into question. In the cases analyzed, we tried to focus on the legal experience, and we have found that the legal background to those rulings allows the formation in neo prohibitionist and abolitionist Countries, a common internal legal culture, which conveys a public ethic, defending human dignity, that has its roots in a common European civilization.
Este estudio, tomando como punto de partida la contribución de Lawrence Friedman y David Nelken a la elaboración del concepto de “cultura jurídica”, interpreta algunas sentencias convergentes dictadas por el Tribunal Constitucional de tres países europeos –Italia, Francia y Portugal– desde la perspectiva de la “cultura jurídica”. Para evitar la tautología de explicar la cultura invocando normas culturales, parece posible dejar la “cultura jurídica” en un segundo plano en la investigación empírica o remitirse a un concepto más sucinto, como el de “experiencia jurídica”. Este enfoque es coherente con la teoría del pluralismo jurídico y proyecta el derecho en el campo más amplio de los problemas culturales. Desde esta perspectiva, se cuestiona la aparente uniformidad y racionalidad de las decisiones que ofrece el análisis estructural-funcionalista, especialmente su versión europea. En los casos analizados, sobre la prostituciòn, hemos tratado de centrarnos en la experiencia jurídica, y hemos comprobado que el trasfondo jurídico de esas sentencias permite la formación, en los países neoprohibicionistas y abolicionistas, de una cultura jurídica interna común, que transmite una ética pública, defensora de la dignidad humana, que hunde sus raíces en una civilización europea común.
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