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VERGARA BLANCO, Alejandro. SYSTEM AND AUTONOMY OF THE BRANCHES, DISCIPLINES OR DEPARTMENTS OF LAW: THEORY AND TECHNIQUE OF THE "DOGMATIC CORES". Rev. chil. derecho [online]. 2014, vol.41, n.3, pp.957-991. ISSN 0718-3437.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-34372014000300008.

From an epistemological perspective, the author describes the mechanisms through which jurists build each specialized branch, discipline or department of law. He observes that what jurists do is to abstract or single out a set of basic or essential concepts, which in turn conform the foundation of what the author propounds to call "dogmatic core" of each legal discipline. Through the use of this tool, which finds its origin in the idea of system, jurists obtain two results: 1°) the division of law into specialized and autonomous branches, disciplines or departments, and 2°) once each autonomous legal discipline is accepted by tradition or the academic community, it is within those branches, disciplines or departments, where judges apply the law, whether identifying by concentric circles the rules of each discipline or, when appropriate, formulating the principles that are configured in such departments.

Palabras clave : Science of law; legal science; branches; disciplines or departments of law; application of law; the role of legal scholarship; Rules and principles of law; Dogmatic core of law; Friedrich Karl von Savigny; Ronald Dworkin.

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