{"id":275090,"date":"2026-06-17T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/stuttering-law-a-manifesto-on-play-interpretation-and-artificial-intelligence-jurist-commentary\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:00:17","slug":"stuttering-law-a-manifesto-on-play-interpretation-and-artificial-intelligence-jurist-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/stuttering-law-a-manifesto-on-play-interpretation-and-artificial-intelligence-jurist-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuttering Law: A Manifesto on Play, Interpretation, and Artificial Intelligence – JURIST – Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stuttering Law: A Manifesto on Play, Interpretation, and Artificial Intelligence – JURIST – Commentary<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.jurist.org\/commentary\/2026\/06\/stuttering-law-a-manifesto-on-play-interpretation-and-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-17 23:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.jurist.org<\/a><\/p>\n

If legal interpretation is no longer purely human but distributed across judges, archives, and algorithms, then who is responsible for a judgment \u2014 and on what authority does it rest? A philosophical case that AI is changing the answers.<\/p>\n

I still remember the children in the courtyard of our apartment building. There were only two boys among a larger group of girls, and yet one of the most serious negotiations of their small world revolved around a strangely precise question: who would play the husband. What appeared, from the distance of adulthood, as a trivial or even absurd game was in fact the construction of a miniature normative universe. Roles were not simply chosen; they were argued over, redistributed, justified, contested, and occasionally imposed. The children did not merely imitate a social order that already existed outside them; they generated one in real time, with a seriousness that did not depend on adult recognition in order to be binding within its own horizon.<\/p>\n

What is striking in retrospect is not the content of their imagination, but the structural logic of it. The game was not a space of arbitrary freedom, but a space of emergent constraint. A disagreement would immediately require a rule; a rule would require interpretation; interpretation would create asymmetries; asymmetries would demand correction; and correction would open the possibility of a new rule. In this sense, their play was already a primitive jurisprudence: not in the sense that it resembled law superficially, but in the sense that it reproduced law\u2019s most fundamental temporal structure, namely the continuous production of normativity through situated interpretation.<\/p>\n

Years later, I encountered philosophical descriptions of play that suddenly illuminated this memory in a different light. In particular, the hermeneutic tradition associated with Hans-Georg Gadamer\u2014in The Relevance of the Beautiful (Die Aktualit\u00e4t des Sch\u00f6nen, 1974)\u2014articulates play not as an activity…<\/p>\n

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