Legal concept of public order: A Case for Social
Representations Approach

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Legal concept of public order: A Case for Social Representations Approach

SMEJKALOVÁ, Terezie a Markéta ŠTĚPÁNÍKOVÁ

Základní údaje

Originální název

Legal concept of public order: A Case for Social Representations Approach

Autoři

SMEJKALOVÁ, Terezie (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí) a Markéta ŠTĚPÁNÍKOVÁ (203 Česká republika, domácí)

Vydání

SLSA 2021, 2021

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

50501 Law

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14220/21:00118908

Organizační jednotka

Právnická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

social representations; public order; transgender

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 11. 2. 2022 14:12, Mgr. Petra Georgala

Anotace

V originále

In an ongoing project, we explore the use of social representations approach (Moscovici 1961/1976, 2008) in studying conceptualization in law. One of the concepts we explore is that of “public order”. Public order is a vague legal concept and as such it lacks legal definition and needs to be interpreted and re-interpreted in relation to context. While the interpretation of a vague legal concept is essentially in the hands of the judge making a decision, some legal concepts, such as that of “public order” have an inescapable link to social realities. In a recent case the Czech Supreme Administrative Court relied on the concept of public order when making a decision on gender indication in a person’s identification number. The court stated that for the personal identification number to bear a different than assigned-at-birth gender indication when the identified person has not yet undergone complete gender affirming surgery would be (among other reasons) contrary to public order. The argumentation leading to this conclusion shows clear argumentative as well as knowledge gaps when it comes to the steps taken to determine the content of the concept of public order, as the court practically entirely relied on personal insight of the judge making that decision. Using this research we discuss that to understand the vague legal concept of public order, law and legal academia must venture outside their traditional methodological boundaries and attempt to grasp the social complexities by any means available. Social representations approach, stemming from social psychology, offers excellent tools to do that, as social representations are essentially dynamic and open phenomena, transformed by context (Marková 2007).

Návaznosti

GA20-10171S, projekt VaV

Název: Využití metod sociální reprezentace v analýze právních konceptů

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Využití metod sociální reprezentace v analýze právních konceptů

Citovat

SMEJKALOVÁ, Terezie a Markéta ŠTĚPÁNÍKOVÁ. Legal concept of public order: A Case for Social Representations Approach. In SLSA 2021. 2021.

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   year = {2021}
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SMEJKALOVÁ, Terezie a Markéta ŠTĚPÁNÍKOVÁ. Legal concept of public order: A Case for Social Representations Approach. In \textit{SLSA 2021}. 2021.

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