About the relationships between law, force and justice in Jacques Derrida

This paper constitutes an advance of the currently on-going investigation that, following the work of Jacques Derrida, pretends to embrace a general view of the theory of justice and power built by the French philosopher in a text entitled Force of Law: The Mystical Foundation of Authority. Taking Derrida’s text as the central point of our investigation, we will expose the main arguments contained in it and we will create a first outline of what the author understands as the relationships between law, force and justice, in order to comprehend the ways in which these theoretical categories articulate in society along with the figure of authority and State sovereignty.