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Glossary (Triadic + Legal Terms)#

BRE (Before Regime Awareness) — Pre-clarity perception of law as isolated rules/cases without systemic dynamics.
Post-BRA (Post-Regime Awareness) — Clarity on legal systems as resonance-time regimes with feedback, coherence, and paradox.

Coherence — Maintenance of predictability, legitimacy, and justice across legal regimes (core RTT invariant).
Deontic Logic — Formal modeling of obligations, permissions, and prohibitions.
Erga Omnes — Obligations owed to the international community as a whole.
Hohfeldian Relations — Fundamental legal atoms (claim-duty, privilege-no claim, power-liability, immunity-disability).
Jus Cogens — Peremptory norms from which no derogation is permitted.
Pacta Sunt Servanda — Agreements must be kept (foundational treaty principle).
Regime Drift — Gradual deviation from coherent legal equilibria (detectable via RTT diagnostics).
Rule of Law — Substantive and procedural constraints on arbitrary power; predictability and equality before the law.
Rule of Recognition (Hart) — Secondary rule identifying valid law.

Additional Key Terms:

• Common Law — Precedent-driven system.
• Civil Law — Code-based system.
• Jurisprudence — Philosophy and theory of law.
• Lex Mercatoria — Medieval transnational commercial law.

Key References & Anchor Sources#

Foundational Texts#

• H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law (1961/1994)
• Ronald Dworkin, Law’s Empire (1986)
• Hans Kelsen, Pure Theory of Law (1934/1967)
• Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Law (Summa Theologica)
• John Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832)

Historical / Comparative#

• Code of Hammurabi (~1750 BCE)
• Wikipedia: Law (primary anchor)
• Comparative law resources (e.g., Zweigert & Kötz)

Current / Applied (2026 context)#

• EU AI Act and related regulatory texts
• US Restatements of the Law (Contracts, Torts, etc.)
• Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969)
• UN Charter, Paris Agreement, Rome Statute

RTT / Triadic Frameworks Connections#

• Resonance-Time Theory primers (core concepts: regimes, feedback, coherence, paradox)
• Framework Field Theory (FFT) for building legal meta-structures
• Domain primer methodology (this module series)

Further Reading & Resources#

• Jurisprudence: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries on Philosophy of Law, Legal Positivism, Natural Law.
• Empirical Legal Studies: Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) proceedings.
• International: International Court of Justice cases, WTO reports.
• Emerging Tech: NIST AI RMF, national AI strategy documents.
• Open Access: Zenodo TriadicFrameworks community for related papers.

How to Use This File#

• Standalone reference for the entire Law Module.
• Expand with jurisdiction-specific glossaries or new regime mappings.
• All entries are AI-parsable and designed for quick navigation.

Session Context#

Contributing: Suggest additions to the glossary or new references via the repo. Open educational use permitted.