The Normative Grammar of Debt

Project Stream 10 · Prof. Dr. Bertram Lomfeld / Max Ablass

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One essential theoretical foundation of the whole RESOLVENCY project is the “discoursive normative grammar” (DNG) model. The DNG framework is not only used specifically within the comparative projects (PS1, PS2) but allows more generally to outline a normative grammar of debt (regimes).

DNG can be understood as a reconstructive model that seeks to articulate the basic normative structures of institutional social (i.e. legal) orders. It is both pluralistic—insofar as it acknowledges the contextual specificity of different legal systems—and integrative in aiming to theoretically represent the diversity and complexity of empirical legal (normative) reality.