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The Standard View

It is time to tie the threads together. What kind of a study is DSL compared to the old doctrinal study of law introduced in the first chapter of this book? In his disser­tation, the Danish legal philosopher Jorgen Dalberg-Larsen presented the idea that no substantial changes have taken place in the doctrinal study of law for centuries (Dalberg-Larsen 1977, passim.).

This statement was radical and forced me to make a comment. I had just launched a research project, the objective of which was to examine the possibilities of applying Thomas S. Kuhn’s theory of the turning points of science to DSL (Aarnio 1986, 161; Mikkola et al. 1988, 63). It was, and still is, clear that Kuhn's model cannot be applied to DSL as it is since this discipline is not part of the family of “hard” sciences like astronomy and physics (Peczenik 1984c, 137; Wroblewski 1984b, 253).

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Source: Aarnio Aulis. Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law. Springer Netherlands,2011. — 221 p.. 2011
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