Exploring conceptual bias in legal regulation

SMEJKALOVÁ, Terezie a Michal MALANÍK. Exploring conceptual bias in legal regulation. In Jurisprudence 2016. 2016.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Exploring conceptual bias in legal regulation

Autoři

SMEJKALOVÁ, Terezie (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí) a Michal MALANÍK (203 Česká republika, domácí)

Vydání

Jurisprudence 2016, 2016

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

50500 5.5 Law

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14220/16:00095894

Organizační jednotka

Právnická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

legal concepts; empirical research; legal text analysis; methods in legal science

Štítky

Legal Concepts, methodology in law

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

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Anotace

V originále

This paper starts from a simple and an almost self-evident premise that concepts known from our everyday lives entail certain understandings, associations, or in linguistic terms, entailments, that in effect colour legal regulation. Our paper does not seek to prove such a claim, nor does it intend to show examples of such colouring. It intends to build on a fact that in legal research such premises are often taken for granted and that they are not being contested. But to contest such a premise, one would need to go far beyond the boundaries of traditional legal academic writing and venture into methods provided by other (social) sciences. This paper shall explore the methods available to prove such a claim and assesses their practical availability to a legal scholar with traditional Czech education. Furthermore, it will discuss the related issues of whether proving the initial premise might still be considered to fall within the realm of legal theory and whether the universities should prepare future legal scholars for the need to venture far beyond the traditional legal theory or legal philosophy.