The case for legal technique: A tentative map for legal mobilization
Keywords:
Social movements, transformation of dispute, strategy of rupture, legal mobilization, common goods, movimientos sociales, transformación de disputas, estrategia de ruptura, movilización jurídica, bienes comunesAbstract
In an apparently paradoxical or contradictory way, our new century seems to show two trends: on the one hand, an increasingly informal, disorganized, oftentimes violent spate of uprisings, and on the other hand, a growing exploitation of legal strategies. Given these developments, how do we rethink the relationship between social struggles and law? This article employs a casuistic approach in order to explore current modes of interconnections between law and society. It argues that law is that language that through the institution of norms gives shape to the world of social relations. Through this same language, law performs actions in this world that it institutes through its categories. This piece also proposes a technical understanding of the concept of legal mobilization and argues that the innovative use of legal technique (rather than a political grammar) and the institutions of social cooperation could be seen as elements that re-describe and re-signify legal mobilization.
De forma aparentemente paradójica o contradictoria, nuestro nuevo siglo parece mostrar dos tendencias: por un lado, una oleada de levantamientos cada vez más informales, desorganizados y, a menudo, violentos; y, por otro lado, una creciente explotación de las estrategias jurídicas. Teniendo en cuenta esta evolución, ¿cómo repensar la relación entre las luchas sociales y el derecho? Este artículo emplea un enfoque casuístico para explorar los modos actuales de interconexión entre el derecho y la sociedad. Sostiene que el derecho es el lenguaje que, a través de la institución de las normas, da forma al mundo de las relaciones sociales. A través de este mismo lenguaje, el derecho realiza acciones en este mundo que instituye a través de sus categorías. Este artículo también propone una comprensión técnica del concepto de movilización jurídica y argumenta que el uso innovador de la técnica jurídica (en lugar de una gramática política) y las instituciones de cooperación social podrían verse como elementos que redescriben y resignifican la movilización jurídica.
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