Normativism

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The term normativism denotes a legal theoretical concept. According to him, the law is to be understood as a self-contained system of norms, the validity of which is justified by a basic norm - and not a historical act. The opposite of normativism is legal realism , according to which all law is ultimately based not on a basic norm but on an actual event (seizure of power) and therefore does not represent a closed normative system, but a historically open (empirical) process.

Normativism can be regarded as the methodological pioneer of the doctrine of natural law, which equally asserts a basic normativity (natural law) independent of all historicity, while legal realism represents the core of every actually empirical understanding of law.

In terms of intellectual history, normativism appears mainly in Europe, while the Anglo-Saxon understanding of law is closer to realism (see Thomas Hobbes , David Hume , Common Law Theory, New Haven Approach).