Abstract

BONILLA MALDONADO, Daniel. Legal History and Normative Heterogeneity. Rev. hist. derecho [online]. 2023, n.65, pp.4-4. ISSN 1853-1784.

In “Historia del derecho como historia del saber normativo”, Thomas Duve examines the limits of dominant legal history and offers a proposal to overcome it, transforming the discipline. This is a bold and innovative proposal. Dominant legal history is not able to account for the cultural diversity, the normative heterogeneity, and the enormous complexity that constitute or influence the normative phenomena that regulate the lives of human beings. Nevertheless, I believe that some of the components of Duve's normative proposal can be conceptually refined, complemented, or replaced by some more precise, illuminating or effective ones. In this article, I present three sets ofcomments, on the cultural studies of law, legal pluralism, and comparative law, that aim to dialogue with Duve's proposal and offer some elements that, perhaps, could help to complement and enrich it.

Keywords : history; history of normative knowledge; legal pluralism and history; cultural studies and history.

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