For an immunological reason of law?

Rethinking the legal system and temporality in the post-pandemic society

  • Marco Antonio Loschiavo Leme de Barros Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21671/rdufms.v8i2.20139

Abstract

This text examines the transformations of the legal system in the context of the coronavirus pandemic through the contributions of Niklas Luhmann's Systems Theory. It reflects on the role of law as a societal immune system, which enabled interpreters to engage in discussions about the instrumentalization of law by politics, economy, or health in light of the worsening pandemic in the global society from a systemic perspective. In this debate, it is important to consider the limits and respective immunization capacities of the systems to discuss the social context of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the meaning of the primacy of functional differentiation in a post-pandemic society. Subsequently, the text develops a systemic objection to the argument of the primacy of health as the prevalent descriptive form of the pandemic situation, highlighting the need to reflect on the temporalities of the functional subsystems. The final reflection allows us to observe and stress, for example, how the law, in light of regional diversity that marks its transformation in global society, translates and reconstructs in its operational bases a legal communication about the pandemic. The final argument aims to reinforce the immunological sense of law through the plurality of peripheral legal solutions (and indeterminacies).

Author Biography

Marco Antonio Loschiavo Leme de Barros, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie

Professor doutor da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzi (UPM) e e da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC/SP). Doutor em Direito pela USP (2018), com apoio da FAPESP. Mestre em Direito e Desenvolvimento pela FGV-SP. Realizou pesquisa de pós-doutorado no Instituto de Relações Internacionais da USP, com apoio da CAPES. Coordenador do grupo Direito & Regulação da Sociedade, vinculado ao diretório de grupos de pesquisa do CNPq. Editor executivo da Revista Direito Mackenzie. Contato: marcoloschiavo@gmail.com

 

Published
2024-06-19
Issue
Vol 8 No 2 (2022): Revista Direito UFMS
Section
Artigos

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