http://epub.ius.bg.ac.rs/index.php/eudaimonia/issue/feed 2024-09-13T20:31:05+02:00 Mila Đorđević eudaimonia@ius.bg.ac.rs Open Journal Systems <h1 class="entry-title">Eudaimonia - Journal for Legal, Political and Social Theory and Philosophy</h1> <p><strong>Publisher</strong>: Center for Legal Fundamentals, Serbian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR Serbia), Faculty of Law University of Belgrade</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://epub.ius.bg.ac.rs/index.php/eudaimonia/article/view/225 2024-09-13T20:31:05+02:00 Anja Bezbradica anja.bezbradica@gmail.com

<div class="page" title="Page 24"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Neo-institutionalists like Neil McCormick and Ota Weinberger brought a significant shift to jurisprudence by viewing law as a specific social fact – the institutional one. This perspective moved away from the voluntarism of traditional legal science, pointing instead on social practices as a locus of law’s normativity. While this approach emphasized the factual aspects of law, neo-institutionalism primarily maintained an analytical and normative stance. Our analysis aims to highlight its potential for exploring alternative paths, such as engaging in sociological and other empirical research of law. We believe that John Searle’s social ontology, from which neo-institutionalists borrowed the concept of institution, provides substantial motivation for such direction. In this paper, we tried to detect those aspects of Searle’s theory of institutions from which themes/hypotheses for sociological and other scientific research of law can be derived, as well as to point out the possible directions of their development.</p> </div> </div> </div>

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