Publication details
Pět tichých minut za Viktorem Knappem
| Title in English | Five Silent Minutes to Commemorate Viktor Knapp |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Právník |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Law sciences |
| Keywords | legal informatics |
| Description | Viktor Knapp was one of most influential figures of the history of Czechoslovak and Czech Law. This paper focuses namely on Knapp’s work in the field of legal informatics, information theory of law and law of information and communication technologies arguing that many of his teachings that are now aged many decades are still worth exceptional attention. The text is structured into five minutes explaining recent shape of fundamental concepts of legal informatics: the understanding of law as information system, the role of information and communication technologies in law, possibilities of automated creation of legal information, information rights and the concept of silence. Four of these minutes are elaborating on concepts that are structurally based on Knapp’s understanding of the scope and role of legal informatics. Fifth minute, however, is critical to Knapp’s thesis as to the limits of legal informatics as purely instrumental discipline – in that respect, the paper argues that despite of having no mathematical or logical instruments to tackle complex substantive issues in law, first and foremost fairness, it is a duty for legal informatics to permanently examine the substance of law against primary teleology of information technologies an information itself (i.e. to help the mankind to counter entropy). At the end of the fifth minute, the paper intuitively suggests that recently proper method of substantive improvement of contemporary law (i.e. of improving its organizational value) is reduction of noise, i.e. promotion of silence. |
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