Legal Performance: Translating into Law and Subjectivity in Law

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://is.muni.cz/publication/1393432/cs/Legal-Performance-Translating-into-Law-and-Subjectivity-in-Law/Smejkalova?vysledek=24328" target="_blank" >https://is.muni.cz/publication/1393432/cs/Legal-Performance-Translating-into-Law-and-Subjectivity-in-Law/Smejkalova?vysledek=24328</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22112596-02201004" target="_blank" >10.1163/22112596-02201004</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Legal Performance: Translating into Law and Subjectivity in Law

Original language description

Legal language seems to maintain a level of incomprehensibility that creates a barrier, beyond which something is happening: a dispute is resolved, a matter of guilt is ascertained, or a life is taken. This paper tackles a trial (in the sense of any type of legal proceeding before a judge) as a performance of justice; one that, not unlike a magical ritual or ritual theater, happens beyond a certain kind of barrier and is fully accessible only to those duly consecrated. It will be argued that legal language may be understood as such a barrier and the role and status of those who do not master it (i.e. understand law and its concepts) are comparable to those of an audience in a performance. Consequently, this paper will show how understanding the role of this barrier in a performance may help us explore the accessibility of law to the layperson and her subjectivity (in the psychoanalytical sense) within law.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Tilburg Law Review

ISSN

2211-0046

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

22

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

62-76

UT code for WoS article

000413032000004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85031691571