Social Ontology and Legal Practice: Updating a Debate

Abstract

In Discusiones, XIV, a debate took place about the role social facts play as the ontological grounds of the legal practice. In what follows, I will try to reconstruct the central tenets of that debate, critically scrutinizing them and, more importantly, I will try to trace a link between the issues then discussed and some developments worked out in the specialized literature afterwards. Thus, the main goal of this paper is that of suggesting some lines along which to continue and sharpen the debate on the subject.