Producing Legal Space

SMEJKALOVÁ, Terezie. Producing Legal Space. In Argumentation 2015. 2015.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Producing Legal Space

Autoři

SMEJKALOVÁ, Terezie (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Argumentation 2015, 2015

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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/00216224:14220/15:00091355

Organizační jednotka

Právnická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

legal space; legal language; legal communication; discursive space

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Anotace

V originále

In the opinion of many legal thinkers, law is delimited by legal discourse – or, essentially, legal language. When we maintain that legal language and law are thus interconnected, any change in legal discourse results in a change in law. Similarly, the space of law is delimited by the space created by its discourse. Adopting this understanding of law means that law is practically as complex as any other social reality. Detailed charting of such discursively created space is nearly impossible and by definition remains incomplete. Therefore, it can be argued that introducing new (innovative, creative, non-traditional) arguments in a trial results in a change of its discursive space. This paper addresses such a change and tackles the issues behind the following questions: How far can the change go? Can a new argument that goes beyond what is a traditionally (or legally) acceptable argument bring about a change in the space of a trial? Is any interpretation that goes beyond the grammatical and logical methods of interpretation bending of the legal space (space of a trial)?