Collective law-making

A time to reflect on the co-creation of law, on March 26-27 in Marcolin. Part of the Open Legal Lab hackathon held by Open Data and eJustice.

This project follows participatory activities on healing commons, health democracy, healing and law-making.

Proposal
The law can be seen as a book made by experts, which individuals have to abide to. But the law can also be seen as a social process where a group of people emerges with rules that enable to bring out the best of society.

Unfortunately today, most citizens are unable to actively take part in such law-making process. We are indeed "trying our best to interact with institutions from the nineteenth century built on technology from the fifteenth century." Hence, when a crisis emerges, we rely on a flawed top-down model, rather than combining technology and democratic processes to build on the collective wisdom, value pluralism and solidarity.

So how can we lever technology to enhance our collective and individual capacities?

Our team will critically reflect on the narratives embedded in law-making, and explore how combining participatory law-making approaches could help us regenerate our social body. Our aim: imagining a new social contract to reclaim our humanity.

Reeinvisionning law-making

 * Elinor Ostrom, first woman awarded a Nobel in Economics, found out that communities of users better preserve resources than markets or state regulation.
 * Italy Supreme Court ruled that certain resources which fill a social need must be governed participatorily, independently of who owns them.
 * Bolivia's Parliament enacted a law to preserve the Rights of Mother Earth
 * Rick Falkvinge experienced that trust-based cooperation allowed his party to be elected in the European Parliament with 100 times less costs than others.
 * Camila Vergara proposed a model inspired by ancient philosophers, the Pleabeian republic, to limit systemic corruption.
 * Augusto Boal understood that theater could be used to transform citizens into law-makers.

Contributing
Participants joining this team agree to contribute to a knowledge commons under copyleft licence according to the General Conditions of Contribution.

Host: Fabio Balli.

Link to register.