A hermeneutic approach to cooperative actions

  • Lenio Luiz Streck UNISINOS
Keywords: cooperative societies, cooperative act, theory of the cooperative act

Abstract

Cooperative societies are different from entrepreneurial societies, being more connected with the grounds of Brazilian Welfare State. The cooperative act presents particular characteristics, because of the purpose of a cooperative society: the exercise of economic activity, with common benefit, without profit intend. The legal concept of cooperative act is unable to contemplate the peculiarities of the relations established in the cooperative societies and their associates. Thus, the meaning of this legal institute must be discussed from a new paradigm, characterized by a multiplicity of demands for rights that surpasses the mere prospect interindividual assessment. Therefore, there must be a break with the traditional «Theories of the Cooperative Act», built from the perspective of a self-centered law, with a logical-subsuntive character.

Received: 20 June 2010
Accepted: 08 July 2010
Published online: 18 December 2015

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Author Biography

Lenio Luiz Streck, UNISINOS
Doctor en Derecho del Estado (UFSC/BR). Catedrático de UNISINOS (Brasil)
Published
2010-12-31
How to Cite
Streck, Lenio Luiz. 2010. “A Hermeneutic Approach to Cooperative Actions”. International Association of Cooperative Law Journal, no. 44 (December), 111-29. https://doi.org/10.18543/baidc-44-2010pp111-129.