Lorca Martín de Villodres, Mª Isabel, el concepto de derecho de un siglo. Su perspectiva iusfilosófica. Madrid, real academia de jurisprudencia y legislación/Dykinson, 2017, 104 pp.
| Autor | Manuel Rodríguez Puerto |
| Páginas | 293-295 |
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IURIS TANTUM No. 28 2018
LORCA MARTÍN DE VILLODRES, Mª ISABEL, EL
CONCEPTO DE DERECHO DE UN SIGLO. SU
PERSPECTIVA IUSFILOSÓFICA. MADRID, REAL
ACADEMIA DE JURISPRUDENCIA Y LEGISLACIÓN/
DYKINSON, 2017, 104 PP.
The Philosophy of Law usually deals with its problems consulting the works of
the authors who constitute this eld, both “pure” philosophers and jurists in char-
ge of the most theoretical tasks. This task is, of course, essential, because the role
of the ideas and the concepts in the transformation of reality is much more im-
portant than some materialistic streams have wanted to see. However, it is also
true that the knowledge of the dominant juridical ideas in an age needs an approach
to other sources a little further from the professional philosophy and more focused to
the everydayness of the juridical life. Precisely one of the merits of this mono-
graphy is to explore those kind of sources, in this case, the concepts about Law
exposed in their speeches by the members of the Real Academia de Jurispruden-
cia y Legislación (RAJyL) of Madrid since the middle of the 19th century until
the middle of the 20th one. The author, Mª Isabel Lorca, is well equipped to face
the task, because she has shown throughout her academic career an interest in
History joining the studies about more “classical” authors as Aristotle and Cicero
with the investigation of characters directly implicated in the more practical as-
pects of Law and Politics, among them Cánovas and Castelar, very outstanding
gures in the period which, from another point of view, she studies in this book.
Mª Isabel Lorca begins placing those reections in the corresponding histo-
rical context which she describes as a “turbulent” age, with political changes,
attempts of renewal and revolutions. Before this sequence of tumultuous events
and quieter moments, the RAJyL offered a notion of Law that, as the author
highlights, shows a clear cohesion if it is observed with an attention that overco-
mes the apparent dispersion of features. From page 38, the author, by a detailed
analysis of the academic speeches, threshes the features of that concept of Law.
One of them is the defence of the nature of the thing and of Natural Law; this
feature could seem striking, because it is common to consider the 19th century
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