German to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Philosophy
German term or phrase:rechtsschöpferisch
From an essay on ecclesiastical and secular theories of the state after the French revolution.
Görres dagegen verweist gerade auf die Vitalität des Volkes, das er wie alle Romantiker als *rechtsschöpferische* Quelle ansieht. Ein widersprüchlicher Zug des romantischen Denkens kommt allerdings darin zum Ausdruck, dass die Organismusidee, die dynamische bzw. dialektische Kraft der Gegensatzeinheit von einem Positivismus flankiert wird; denn die bestehende monarchische Verfassung wird andererseits als stabile historische und gottgewollte Gegebenheit aufgefasst, die selbst von den *rechtsschöpferischen* Kräften des Volkes und seiner ständischen Körperschaften letztlich unberührt bleibt.
So far I have "source of law" for the first instance and "constitutive" for the second, but am really not sure.
Explanation: This might work for the first sentence:
rechtsschöpferische Quelle - source of creative jurisprudence
But I'm not sure how I'd tackle the term in the second sentence
rechtsschöpferische Kräften des Volkes – the creative ... forces of the people
And he found that equity and legal fictions played creative roles in the common law. In these respects he departed radically from Savigny's monistic approach to law and its sources.
Maine differed from Savigny also in believing that custom might historically follow an act of judgment, so that the jurist could be seen to have had a creative role in making the law, even though he claimed only to have found it. Maine also noted the part played in early societies by the codification of customary law. In revealing the ideals operative in a society at a particular stage of its development and in relating them to social conditions, Maine stimulated the development of the use of the sociological method in jurisprudence. It thus became apparent that just as law cannot be divorced from history, so, too, it cannot be divorced from philosophy and sociology.
Fehlt eine einschlägige Norm, die den zu beurteilenden Interessenkonflikt entscheidet, ist der Richter aufgefordert, rechtsschöpferisch tätig zu werden. Er muss seine Entscheidung danach ausrichten, wie das Gesetz die gegenüberstehenden Interessen in ähnlichen Fällen gegeneinander abgewogen hat. Vom Richter ist also nicht buchstabengenauer Gehorsam gegenüber dem Gesetz, sondern "interessengemäßer" Gehorsam gefordert.
Academic arguments, from the jurisprudence of decisions to "creative" jurisprudence and from creative jurisprudence to an action-oriented jurisprudence were of little help. Neither was the spirit of the times such as to encourage talk of the "art of law" as well as of the "science of law", and certainly not, to paraphrase a famous advertisement slogan for a bank, of the "fine art of lawyering".
Thanks to both of you - ended up using creative source of law in the first instance and power of the people to create laws in the second, so points go to Kim. 4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer
I should add that the second sentence has a footnote referring to Carl Schmitt's Politische Romantik, although I haven't found any evidence that the term rechtsschöpferisch is from him.
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law-making
Explanation: Shouldn't the word have only one "s"?
My first thought was "the original source of laws", "the original legislative source". I then searched for the word in Dietl Lorenz, found "Rechtschoepfung" as "law-making", which I'm sure you can also use as an adjective here.
I wouldn't suggest using "constitutive" in this case. For the second example, maybe something along the lines of "the power of the people to draft laws / legislature"
Hope this is a step further in your search.
SusieZ United States Local time: 18:37 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 4
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Asker: Thanks, SusieZ - the correct spelling goes seem to be with two s's though.
Explanation: This might work for the first sentence:
rechtsschöpferische Quelle - source of creative jurisprudence
But I'm not sure how I'd tackle the term in the second sentence
rechtsschöpferische Kräften des Volkes – the creative ... forces of the people
And he found that equity and legal fictions played creative roles in the common law. In these respects he departed radically from Savigny's monistic approach to law and its sources.
Maine differed from Savigny also in believing that custom might historically follow an act of judgment, so that the jurist could be seen to have had a creative role in making the law, even though he claimed only to have found it. Maine also noted the part played in early societies by the codification of customary law. In revealing the ideals operative in a society at a particular stage of its development and in relating them to social conditions, Maine stimulated the development of the use of the sociological method in jurisprudence. It thus became apparent that just as law cannot be divorced from history, so, too, it cannot be divorced from philosophy and sociology.
Fehlt eine einschlägige Norm, die den zu beurteilenden Interessenkonflikt entscheidet, ist der Richter aufgefordert, rechtsschöpferisch tätig zu werden. Er muss seine Entscheidung danach ausrichten, wie das Gesetz die gegenüberstehenden Interessen in ähnlichen Fällen gegeneinander abgewogen hat. Vom Richter ist also nicht buchstabengenauer Gehorsam gegenüber dem Gesetz, sondern "interessengemäßer" Gehorsam gefordert.
Academic arguments, from the jurisprudence of decisions to "creative" jurisprudence and from creative jurisprudence to an action-oriented jurisprudence were of little help. Neither was the spirit of the times such as to encourage talk of the "art of law" as well as of the "science of law", and certainly not, to paraphrase a famous advertisement slogan for a bank, of the "fine art of lawyering".
Kim Metzger Mexico Local time: 16:37 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 27
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Thanks to both of you - ended up using creative source of law in the first instance and power of the people to create laws in the second, so points go to Kim.
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