LAW AND TRUTH. GENEALOGY(IES). SOME COMMENTS

Abstract

The following text is a little commentary to the Introduction to the professors Jorge Cerdio and German Sucar’s work called «Derecho y verdad: genealogía(s)». The levels of approach to the link between the Law and truth are three: the truth of the Law, the truth in the Law and the truth on the Law. For this, it is used some ideas of the contemporary Theory of Law and the methodology of Social Sciences. It is also a coincidence with the authors of the Introduction with the importance that History has for a right elaboration of the Jurisprudence. In the second part of the commentaries it is analysed three interdependent and closely linked with the general topic on «Law and truth» issues: truth and lie in politics, the legitimising role of the political and legal fictions and History and political manipulation abuse. Finally, as practical example, there are some ethical and theoretical thoughts on the discussed topic of the Spanish democracy political Transition fruits and loopholes