A comprehensive Theory of Law for a new historical period

Abstract

The global theory of law is an attempt to overcome the crisis of present legal thought, increasingly incapable to understand the law, to structure jurisprudence and to guide legal practice. Such crisis is first analyzed as the result of the wider cultural crisis, which has ended in the insufficiency of Modern and Contemporary Weltanschauung. Thereafter, this paper provides a series of philosophical basis —context, perspective and method— which lead to different approaches to the law —human, sociological, finalistic, symbolic and historic—, which allow their federation on a wider, global, comprehension of the law. Global theory of law is an effort to re-construct the law, from the re-composition of culture, through the integration of different —legal and cultural— theories, avoiding —from an analogic perspective— the epistemological mistakes of syncretism.