Pragmatismo y Derecho: Notas para un enfoque científico en la teoría jurídica del siglo XXI

This paper will analyze Jules Coleman’s pragmatic approach on the Law, in order to place it as one of the scientific approaches in the 21st century legal theory, about the state of the art of the question “what is Law?” To this I will put two themes. The first will address the philosophical elements that shape the approach of Coleman as a specific legal pragmatism and compare it with other legal pragmatism that blend with the thesis of American legal realists. Second, examine its scientific character, and place it in the analytic philosophy of law of this century in relation to the other strong thesis about the Law.