title: Problems of the uncertainty of law through the prism of the metamodern
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metadata.value: Sechin, Daniil S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-02-07T17:56:33Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-02-07T17:56:33Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.value: Sechin, Daniil S. 2022. Problems of the uncertainty of law through the prism of the metamodern. Pravovedenie 66 (4): 448–467. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2022.406 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2022.406
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39047
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metadata.value: The aim of the study is to form the fundamental problems of interpretation of legal texts on the
  basis of modern philosophical approaches, as well as the search for possible ways to overcome
  them. The focus of the article is the legal interpretation in international law, due to a number
  of special characteristics, like the extreme diversity of cultural and legal traditions, the relative
  primitiveness of international relations, etc. The author does not seek to draw prescriptive conclusions,
  but to describe descriptively the workings of the language of law, its understanding
  and use. The problem of the perception of texts is not new for science, but the relevance of
  this work is related to the analysis of the postmodernist critique of the interpretation of law. The
  main part of this critique focuses on two fundamental problems: semantic indeterminacy, when
  subjects put different meanings into the words they use, and also structural indeterminacy,
  demonstrated by M. Koskenniemi, when the arguments of the parties are seen as equivalent,
  making it impossible to make a truly reasoned choice between the arguments presented by the
  parties. Overcoming postmodernist criticism is possible on the basis of the concept of metamodern,
  which implies overcoming the main ideas and concepts of the modern and postmodern
  era. General scientific methods are used, in particular, deduction — to apply the concept
  of metamodern to individual problems of interpretation, as well as induction — to form general
  conclusions based on the analysis of the practice of interpretation of legal texts. The removal of
  the postmodern thesis of semantic indeterminacy of texts is based on the appeal to the ideas of
  modernity about the establishment of rules of interpretation and acceptance of certain limits of
  reasonable interpretation. Overcoming the identified structural ambiguity in the application of
  legal norms lies in rethinking the universal hierarchical organized system of values of modernity.
  In the modern world, a system with quasi-hierarchical values operates, where, in the absence of
  an explicitly constructed universal hierarchy, states view some values as higher in priority than
  others, making it possible for courts to choose between value-based arguments.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Pravovedenie;Volume 66; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: international law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: interpretation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: legal uncertainty
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: meatamodern
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: semantic uncertainty
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: structural uncertainty
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Problems of the uncertainty of law through the prism of the metamodern
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metadata.value: Article
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