WHAT CRITICISMS DWORKIN'S LAW AS INTEGRITY THEORY CAN MAKE AGAINST THE THESIS OF FREE MOTIVATION OF THE JUDICIAL ADJUDICATION?

• Main Author: Flávio Quinaud Pedron
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria 2018-08-01
• Series: Revista Eletrônica do Curso de Direito da UFSM
• Subjects: livre convencimento judicial; teoria do direito como integridade; ronald dworkin.
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsm.br/revistadireito/article/view/30920

The present text demonstrates the unsustainability of a traditional view within the General Theory of the Process capable of defending the permanence of mere and insufficient duty of motivation of judicial decisions. Thus, using a methodology aimed at reviewing literature on the subject, based on a critical historical reconstruction, we present the problematic reading of the thesis of free convincing motivated, based on a relation of adherence to an undemocratic procedural theory. Thus, it will be observed that the function of motivation is bound to an unconscious hermeneutic reading as to the occurrence of linguistic turn and attached to a positivist legal paradigm. Then, using the theoretical resources provided by Ronald Dworkin's Theory of Law as Integrity, we demonstrate how the democratic procedural paradigm can be properly understood, overcoming both a Positivist Law Theory as well as an undemocratic process. The direct consequence is the overcoming of the idea of motivation and its substitution for the understanding of what is a justified judicial provision.