Norms on Language and the Regulativeness of Constitutive Norms (original) (raw)

The paper analyses two categories of legal norms on language, definitory and interpretative norms, in order to establish the differences and similarities between them. Whilst specifically asserting their common regulativeness, the underlying purpose is, however, to make the more general claim that constitutive norms are simultaneously regulative and then that constitutivity is merely a feature of some norms, without preventing them from also guiding human action. Accordingly, constitutive norms are not opposed to regulative norms, but merely a category of the latter.