“¿Importa el derecho?”. Política judicial, realismo jurídico y el problema de la indeterminación del derecho en tanto que problema metodológico

Pablo José Castillo Ortiz

doi:10.3989/isegoria.2014.051.03

Authors

Pablo José Castillo Ortiz University of Sheffield

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2014.051.03

Keywords:

Legal Realism, Judicial Politics, Indeterminacy of law, Theories of judicial decision-making

Abstract

In the last decades the new discipline of Judicial Politics has emerged in the academic landscape, heir of legal realism and determined to study judicial behavior with social-sciences tools and from sociopolitical explanatory variables. In so doing, however, studies in Judicial Politics have left out the role of law in the explanation of the behavior of Justices, using theoretical argumentations based on the indeterminacy of legal rules. In this article, I suggest that the exclusion of legal rules is however an important limitation for the construction of empirical models of judicial behavior.

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