Jusletter IT

Legal Taboos

  • Authors: Vytautas Čyras / Friedrich Lachmayer
  • Category: Articles
  • Region: Lithuania, Austria
  • Field of law: Legal Theory
  • Collection: Conference proceedings IRIS 2018
  • Citation: Vytautas Čyras / Friedrich Lachmayer, Legal Taboos, in: Jusletter IT 22 February 2018
The authors formalise a taboo as a prohibition on speaking (informing). Three levels of norms are distinguished. First are basic prohibitions, Forbidden X, i.e. norms which prohibit basic actions, Norm(¬X). Second-level norms comprise primary taboos which prohibit information about facts or fakes, Norm(¬Inf(X)), but permit them to happen. Third-level norms comprise meta-taboos, which prohibit information that a primary taboo exists, Norm(¬Inf(Norm(¬Inf(X)))). A taboo on the essential causes A of an effect E can be officially camouflaged with a fake relationship between certain facts B and E.

Table of contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Taboo as a Prohibition to Speak
  • 3. Three Levels of Norms on Prohibition
  • 4. Taboo on a Combination of Three Elements of a Relation
  • 5. Related Work
  • 6. Conclusions
  • 7. References

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