A New Conceptual Framework for Analysing a Case Study on ICT and the Sanctity of the Home

Abstract

The case study shows the complex reality with respect to processes of meaning construction. Ruiter’s framework provides a more sophisticated instrument to analyse these complex processes. Unlike the classic models of legal communication, based upon a linear causality between norm and action, and unlike the dual model of interplay between legal institutions and institutional legal facts developed by MacCormick and Weinberger’s Institutional Legal Theory (ILT), the tripartite model of interplay between rule, application, and social practices, stemming from Ruiter’s analysis of ILT, can contribute to a more refined model of legal communication.