Diachronies of law

Classification and definition sciences, law and sociology build knowledge useful to communities to organize themselves, to academies to observe themselves, to institutions to function. The accumulation of ideas and data, however, has ended up tracing a furrow between the models of investigation and their creators, while offering cultural and civil certainties. By making legal theories and practices explicit, the sociologist and the historian indicate elements to refine, by crossing knowledge, the techniques of understanding reality and to limit the dangers of specialization. In their words: to give research the open character that it deserves, it is necessary to "destroy verbal and mental automatisms" by preventing "dehistoricization" and, by promoting "the use of "positive" sociology", avoid "social insensitivity" and "literary idealism". Common intentions, for the law.