The Paradigms of Law and Physics Models

Abstract

The Law is currently going through some changes, due not only to the recent social, economic and political transformations, but also to the very conditions of Law. Certain elements that are now important have gone unnoticed by most scholars and, in order to address them, it is not necessary to write a new history of Law; it is enough to adopt a naturalistic approach that incorporates these previously ignored elements in order to achieve an overall picture. In the natural world, gas is fluid and invisible, which are characteristics that a new approach of Law should also exhibit. In light of the problems now faced by Law and the new epistemological paradigms, we should speak of a ‘gaseous law’, as one capable of understanding such dynamics, compared to solid Law and liquid Law. A new Law for new circumstances. Now then, understanding this new Law requires the renewal of the forms in which lawyers and interpreters of the law are educated, particularly the epistemological approaches to address the matter.