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1、WestlawDeliverySummaryReportforIPPOOL,7YourSearch:TI("legalcertainty")Date/TimeofRequest:Friday,January17,201402:06CentralClientIdentifier:ZHEJIANGNORMALUDatabase:JLRCitationText:10GERMANLJ1469Lines:1279Documents:1Images:0Thematerialaccompanyingthissummaryissubjecttocopyright.Usageisgoverne
2、dbycontractwithThomsonReuters,Westandtheiraffiliates.10GERMANLJ1469Page110GermanL.J.1469GermanLawJournalNovember1,2009Article*1469BEYONDPREDICTABILITY-REFLECTIONSONLEGALCERTAINTYANDTHEDISCOURSETHEORYOFLAWINTHEEULEGALORDERElinaPaunio[FNa1]Copyright©2009GermanLawJournal,ElinaPaunioA.Stability
3、,Flexibility-orboth?Legalcertaintyrequiresabalancebetweenstabilityandflexibility.FollowingthehermeneuticalfootstepsoflegaltheoristssuchasAulisAarnioandAlexanderPeczenik,adistinctioncanbemadebetweenformalandsubstantivelegalcertainty;betweenpredictabilityandacceptabilityoflegaldecision-making
4、.[FN1]Formallegalcertaintyimpliesthatlawsand,inparticular,adjudicationmustbepredictable:lawsmustsatisfyrequirementsofclarity,stability,andintelligibilitysothatthoseconcernedcanwithrelativeaccuracycalculatethelegalconsequencesoftheiractionsaswellastheoutcomeoflegalproceedings.Substantivelega
5、lcertainty,then,isrelatedtotherationalacceptabilityoflegaldecision-making.Inthissense,itisnotsufficientthatlawsandadjudicationarepredictable:theymustalsobeacceptedbythelegalcommunityinquestion.Thedichotomybetweenpredictabilityandacceptabilityisconnectedtotheclassicdivisionbetweenvalidnormsa
6、ndtheirvalidityasaction.Itconcernsthedistinctionbetweenwhatisvalidinitselfandwhatcangainvalidityasanactperformed.[FN2]Formalpredictabilitysuggeststhatlawisimmobile,independent,andpre-establishedaswellaspre-settled.Substantiveacceptability,however,concernsthemoreflexibleaspectoflawandadjudic
7、ation:itreferstolaw'sreflexivity,fluidity,andcontext-sensitivity.Thesetwodistinctandsometimesopposingvaluescometogetherinthenotionoflegalcertainty.ThisarticlediscusseslegalcertaintyfromtheviewpointofadjudicationinthecontextofEUlaw.Thatis,thefocusisontheE
