Law As A System: False Positive in Systems
Law As A System: False Positive in Systems
Law As A System: False Positive in Systems
False Positive
in systems
Objectives
1. On legal theories
2. The Systems Theory and Law
3. Read Clemens Mattheis’s article on the
systems theory and law
4. The Trial by Franz Kafka
5. Feasibility of the systems theory in the 21st C.
Readings
Nicholas Luhmann
“Law as a System”
Link: (please go to the link via My Waseda)
https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.j
ournals/illlr83&div=12&g_sent=1&casa_token=
&collection=journals
Optional reading time: 30 minutes
Mattheis, Page 629-634
Mattheis, Clemens. “The System Theory of
Niklas Luhmann and the Constitutionalization of
the World Society” Goettingen Journal of
International Law 4 (2012) 2, 625-647.
Link
http://www.gojil.eu/issues/42/42_article_matth
eis.pdf
Reading time: 30 minutes
二クラス・ルーマン『社会の法』
• A theory as a perspective
• Description and analysis
Theory as a Perspective
Systems Theory
Confucian Ethics
Description v Argument/analyze
a…b…c.. Enumerating facts -- analyze the facts
Argue for or argue against
• 1945
• People or subjects 国民、臣民、人民
• Leaving a child unattended
Analysis
Try to identify hidden assumptions, hidden meaning
A theory from generalization
Cases/facts -----------------
Hypothesis ---------------
Inquiries -------------------
Test ---------------------
Results -------------
Generalization ---
Case Analysis
Facts
Identify issues
Rule of law
Analysis
Conclusion
How can we analyze law and culture?
Conformity – Adaptation
Functional theory, Systems theory
Emphasis on social expectations
Confucian ethics
Conflict – Resist
Change/ transformation/Critical theory
Power
Desire theory, False consciousness
Theory of the Other
Feminism
Dialectic Method 弁証法
https://triumphias.com/blog/talcott-parsons-soc
ial-system/
Michael Foucault
• Foucault’s personal background
• The History of Sexuality
• Against adaptation
• If deviated?
• Discipline and Punishment
• Power and violence
https://artsone-open.arts.ubc.ca/foucault-discipline-and-punish/
Focus on Conflict
Niklas Luhmann
• Systems Theory and Law
• Self-organization
• “hypercyclically closed system”
• Paradoxes of self-reference
• “Circularity as a problem” of social reality
• Self-observation
• Self-production
Franz Kafka
Self-creation
Self-making
Legal discourse
The
土下座
Dogeza
Japanese そろばん
Soroban
Language
甘える
Amaeru
Sub-couplings: An example
Offer
Breach
Double effects of couplings
The owner of
the land and Mortgage set on
the building land and buildings
must be an or the land or a
identical building
person.
The execution of
the mortgage
separates the
owner of the land
and the building
Another example
Larceny
1. Taking
2. Carrying away
3. Personal property of another
4. With an intent to deprive
Larceny
Taking
Personal
Carrying
property of
another away
With an
intent to
deprive
Procedural Process
• Substantive law
• Procedural due process
• Human disobedience
• The tree of judgement takes on a new valence
as the source of judgment
• The Fall as the result of the withheld
judgement