Intentions of Legislator in the Age of Social Media

TVRDÍKOVÁ, Linda. Intentions of Legislator in the Age of Social Media. In 25th Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law. 2025.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Intentions of Legislator in the Age of Social Media

Autoři

TVRDÍKOVÁ, Linda

Vydání

25th Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, 2025

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

50500 5.5 Law

Stát vydavatele

Portugalsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ne

Organizační jednotka

Právnická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

legislator; social ontology; intention; social media

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Anotace

V originále

One of the most important moments when law is linked to reality is its interpretation and application. In the context of authoritative interpretation and application of law, we can find that interpreters often refer to the legislator´s intentions. In legal scholarship, then, we associate intentionalism with the search for the intentions of the lawmaker and what he actually wanted to communicate through the text of the normative legal act. Proponents of this position argue that what is most important is what the legislator intended to communicate to us through the text of the normative legal act, what his intentions were. Intentionalists face criticism where the main arguments are that we cannot speak of the legislator as some separately existing entity that might have its own intentions. In spite of this, judges often rely on the intention of the legislator, using, for example, travaux préparatoires. Nowadays, in the age of social media and technology, it is not uncommon for lawmakers to comment on draft of acts on social media. We can thus ask whether these comments have to have any impact on the interpretation of the law. Are these comments evidence of what the legislator intended? In order to answer this question, we need to ask a more fundamental question, namely whether we can speak of the autonomous existence of a plural entity (legislator) and whether we can attribute our own intentions to this plural entity and, if so, what relation they have to the intentions of their individual members. In this paper, we will explore these questions using the insights of analytic philosophy, specifically social ontology. Answers to these questions can help us clarify what materials make sense to draw on in interpreting law and why.

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Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1588/2024, interní kód MU

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