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
English
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."[1] 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, 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,[2][3] and explore how participatory law-making can help us regenerate our social body. Our aim: imagining a new social contract to reclaim our humanity.[4][5]
Français
La loi peut être vue comme un livre rédigé par des expert·e·s, auquel les individus doivent se conformer. Mais la loi peut aussi être vue comme un processus social où un groupe de personnes émerge avec des règles qui permettent de faire ressortir le meilleur de la société.
Malheureusement, aujourd'hui, la plupart des citoyen·ne·s ne sont pas en mesure de prendre activement part au processus d'élaboration des lois. Nous faisons « de notre mieux pour interagir avec des institutions du XIXe siècle construites sur une technologie du XVe siècle ».[1] Par conséquent, lorsqu'une crise émerge, nous nous appuyons sur un modèle top-down defficient, au lieu d'associer technologies et processus démocratiques pour construire sur la sagesse collective, le pluralisme et la solidarité.
Comment pouvons-nous alors tirer parti des technologies pour améliorer nos capacités collectives et individuelles ?
Notre équipe mènera une réflexion critique sur les récits ancrés dans l'élaboration de la loi,[2][3] et explorera comment la législation participative peut nous aider à régénérer notre corps social. Notre objectif : imaginer un nouveau contrat social pour recouvrer notre humanité.[4][5]
Deutsch
Das Gesetz kann als ein von Experten erstelltes Buch betrachtet werden, an das sich Menschen halten müssen. Das Gesetz kann aber auch als ein sozialer Prozess gesehen werden, bei dem eine Gruppe Regeln aufstellt, die das Beste aus der Gesellschaft herausholen.
Leider sind meisten Bürgerinnen und Bürger heute nicht in der Lage, sich aktiv an einem solchen Gesetzgebungsprozess zu beteiligen. In der Tat versuchen wir "unser Bestes, um mit Institutionen aus dem 19. Jahrhundert zu interagieren, die auf einer Technologie aus dem 15. Jahrhundert aufbauen".[1] Wenn eine Krise auftaucht, verlassen wir uns denn auf ein fehlerhaftes Top-Down-Modell, anstatt Technologie und demokratische Prozesse zu kombinieren, um auf kollektiver Weisheit, Pluralismus und Solidarität aufzubauen.
Wie können wir also Technologie nutzen, um unsere kollektiven und individuellen Fähigkeiten zu verbessern?
Unser Team wird die Narrative, welche in der Gesetzgebung eingebettet sind, kritisch reflektieren[2][3] und erforschen, wie die Kombination von partizipativen Ansätzen in der Gesetzgebung uns helfen können, unseren sozialen Körper zu regenerieren. Unser Ziel: einen neuen Gesellschaftsvertrag zu entwerfen, um unsere Menschlichkeit zurückzugewinnen.[4][5]
Italiano
La legge può essere vista come un libro scritto da esperti, a cui gli individui devono conformarsi. Ma la legge può anche essere vista come un processo sociale in cui un gruppo di persone emerge con regole che fanno crescere il meglio della società.
Sfortunatamente oggi, la maggior parte dei cittadini non è in grado di partecipare attivamente al processo legislativo. Stiamo "facendo del nostro meglio per interagire con le istituzioni del 19° secolo costruite sul tecnologie del 15° secolo".[1] Di conseguenza, quando emerge una crisi, ci affidiamo ad un modello top-down, invece di combinare tecnologie e processi democratici per costruire sulla saggezza collettiva, il pluralismo e la solidarietà.
Come possiamo allora sfruttare le tecnologie per migliorare le nostre capacità collettive e individuali?
Il nostro team rifletterà criticamente sulle narrazioni incorporate nel processo legislativo,[2][3] ed esplorerà come un processo legislativo partecipativo può aiutarci a rigenerare il nostro corpo sociale. Il nostro obiettivo: immaginare un nuovo contratto sociale per recuperare nostra umanità. meilleur de la société.
Malheureusement, aujourd'hui, la plupart des citoyen·ne·s ne sont pas en mesure de prendre activement part au processus d'élaboration des lois. Nous faisons « de notre mieux pour interagir avec des institutions du XIXe siècle construites sur une technologie du XVe siècle ».[1] Par conséquent, lorsqu'une crise émerge, nous nous appuyons sur un modèle top-down defficient, au lieu d'associer technologies et processus démocratiques pour construire sur la sagesse collective, le pluralisme et la solidarité.
Comment pouvons-nous alors tirer parti des technologies pour améliorer nos capacités collectives et individuelles ?
Notre équipe mènera une réflexion critique sur les récits ancrés dans l'élaboration de la loi,[2][3] et explorera comment la législation participative peut nous aider à régénérer notre corps social. Notre object.[4][5]
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.[6]
- Italy Supreme Court ruled that certain resources which fill a social need must be governed participatorily, independently of who owns them.[7]
- Bolivia's Parliament enacted a law to preserve the Rights of Mother Earth[8]
- Rick Falkvinge experienced that trust-based cooperation allowed his party to be elected in the European Parliament with 100 times less costs than others.[9]
- Camila Vergara proposed a model inspired by ancient philosophers, the Pleabeian republic, to limit systemic corruption.[10]
- Augusto Boal understood that theater could be used to transform citizens into law-makers.[11]
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.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Mancini P. Why it is time to redesign our political system. European View 2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12290-015-0343-9
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Capra F, Mattei U. The Ecology of Law: Toward a legal system in tune with Nature and Community. Berrett-Koehler 2015. https://www.bkconnection.com/books/title/the-ecology-of-law
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Mattei U. Three patterns of Law: Taxonomy and change in the world’s legal systems. The American Journal of Comparative Law 1997. https://doi.org/10.2307/840958
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Banville MS, Lapalme J. Property rights / property wrongs: Micro-treaties with the Earth. Rethinking our responsibilities towards nature through land stewardship. Dark Matter Labs 2020. https://provocations.darkmatterlabs.org/property-rights-property-wrongs-micro-treaties-with-the-earth-9b1ca44b4df
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Balli F. Global crises, democratic solutions—within days. Using Internet to empower citizens, reach popular consensus, and ensure democratic decision-making. Zenodo 2021. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5497574
- ↑ Ostrom E. Beyond markets and states: polycentric governance of complex economic systems. Prize lecture. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009. https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/ostrom_lecture.pdf
- ↑ Vercellone A. The italian experience of the commons: right to the city, private property, fundamental rights. The Cardozo Electronic Law Bulletin 2020. https://iris.unito.it/retrieve/handle/2318/1742871/620624/cardozo%20commons.pdf
- ↑ Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia. Ley de Derechos de la Madre Tierra. Asamblea Legislativa 2010. https://www.bivica.org/file/view/id/2370
- ↑ Falkvinge R. Swarmwise. The tactical manual to changing the world. CreateSpace 2013. https://falkvinge.net/files/2013/04/Swarmwise-2013-by-Rick-Falkvinge-v1.1-2013Sep01.pdf
- ↑ Vergara P. Systemic corruption: constitutional ideas for an anti-oligarchic republic. Princeton 2020. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691207537/systemic-corruption
- ↑ Boal A. Legislative Theatre. Using performance to make politics. Routledge 1999. https://www.routledge.com/Legislative-Theatre-Using-Performance-to-Make-Politics/Boal/p/book/9780415182416