27 November 2020

In his new article published at Courier of Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL) Dmitry Shniger, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Business and Corporate Law of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL), Senior Associate at Khrenov&Partners focuses on the legal aesthetics dilemma, which appears in the dominant sense that the legal content prevails over the legal form. 

Some possible reasons and consequences of the aesthetical crisis are considered. The article offers a way to overcome that crisis. To this end, the author outlines the new interdisciplinary field of legal studies called legal aesthetics.

According to the author’s opinion, the aesthetical criteria shall be applied primarily to the legal text and also to all the tools, such as visualizations, which make it more comprehensible. The key issues of the new discipline are scrutinized, such as objectives, subject, method, and relations with other legal studies, such as legal technique.

The author shows the connection between legal aesthetics and legal design, arising within the philosophy of design-thinking. focuses on the legal aesthetics dilemma, which appears in the dominant sense that the legal content prevails over the legal form. 

Some possible reasons and consequences of the aesthetical crisis are considered. The article offers a way to overcome that crisis. To this end, the author outlines the new interdisciplinary field of legal studies called legal aesthetics.

According to the author’s opinion, the aesthetical criteria shall be applied primarily to the legal text and also to all the tools, such as visualizations, which make it more comprehensible. The key issues of the new discipline are scrutinized, such as objectives, subject, method, and relations with other legal studies, such as legal technique. The author shows the connection between legal aesthetics and legal design, arising within the philosophy of design-thinking.

The article may be viewed here (in Russian)