I had the intuition that a jurist-researcher must inter- and trans-discipline and, therefore, I read books (…) of institutional history, social history, political philosophy, economy and sociology. (…) I started to merge the positivist discourse with the cultural one, marked by inter- and trans-disciplinarity and by conceptual analysis. This way I was trying to break with the empiricism which is specifical to descriptive commentary...

The choice of a certain style of legal writing is not only ad professionis one, but one that depends much on our fundamental view towards the relation between rules and freedom. Therefore, I believe that a legal writing in a cultural environment oriented predominantly towards efficiency of rules reveals a certain lack of interest for the individual freedom, a statism concealed as pragmatism. The positivism, which is a lack of philoso...