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It argues that the law remains disproportionately focused on individual rights and duties, even though group dynamics demonstrably shape behaviour. The paper therefore calls for the formal recognition of informal groups and the integration of collective responsibility to reflect current social realities more accurately.Methodology: Employing a historical-legal and interdisciplinary lens, the study traces the evolution of individualism from Roman law to modern legal frameworks. It combines comparative legal analysis, theoretical cri-tique, and normative analysis to propose legal reforms that reconcile in-dividual autonomy with collective accountability.Findings: Historically, legal systems have privileged individualism and un-derestimated the influence of groups. As a result, informal collectives of-ten lack protection and meaningful participation in legal processes. This over-emphasis on the individual hampers effective responses to systemic discrimination, environmental harm, and labour rights violations. Al-though certain branches—such as corporate and environmental law—im-plicitly recognise collective responsibility, explicit mechanisms to balance individual and group interests are still required. Flexible legal models can integrate group accountability without eroding personal rights.Practical implications: Conferring limited legal personality on informal groups would enable them to assert rights without full formalisation. A calibrated balance between individual and collective liability would en-hance the law’s capacity to address problems that demand shared re-sponsibility. Strengthening collective legal tools—such as class actions, trade unions, and community governance—would improve legal repre-sentation, while the use of AI-enabled digital platforms could foster par-ticipatory law-making and deliver fairer legal structures"},{"@xml:lang":"sl","#text":"Namen: Članek kritično obravnava preplet individualizma in kolektivizma v pravnih sistemih. Avtor trdi, da je pravo nesorazmerno osredotočeno na individualne pravice in dolžnosti, čeprav skupinska dinamika dokazano oblikuje vedenje. Zato poziva k formalnemu priznanju neformalnih skupin in vključitvi kolektivne odgovornosti, s čimer bi pravo natančneje odraža-lo sodobno družbeno stvarnost.Metodologija: S historično-pravnim in interdisciplinarnim pristopom štu-dija sledi razvoju individualizma od rimskega prava do sodobnih pravnih okvirov. Združuje primerjalnopravno analizo, teoretsko kritiko in norma-tivno analizo ter predlaga reforme, ki usklajujejo individualno avtonomijo s kolektivno odgovornostjo.Ugotovitve: Zgodovinsko gledano so pravni sistemi privilegirali indivi-dualizem in podcenjevali vpliv skupin. Posledično neformalne skupine ne uživajo ustrezne zaščite in smiselne udeležbe v pravnih postopkih. To pretirano poudarjanje posameznika ovira učinkovite odzive na sistemsko diskriminacijo, okoljsko škodo in kršitve delavskih pravic. Čeprav nekatera področja – na primer korporacijsko in okoljsko pravo – implicitno prizna-vajo kolektivno odgovornost, so za uravnoteženje interesov posameznika in skupnosti še vedno potrebni izrecni mehanizmi. Prilagodljivi pravni mo-deli lahko vključijo skupinsko odgovornost, ne da bi pri tem razvrednotili osebne pravice.Praktične posledice: Podelitev omejene pravne subjektivitete neformal-nim skupinam bi jim omogočila uveljavljanje pravic brez popolne forma-lizacije. Uravnoteženo razmerje med individualno in kolektivno odgovor-nostjo bi okrepilo sposobnost prava za reševanje problemov, ki zahtevajo deljeno odgovornost. Krepitev kolektivnih pravnih orodij – kot so skupin-ske tožbe, sindikati in skupnostno upravljanje – bi izboljšala pravno zasto-panje, uporaba digitalnih platform z umetno inteligenco pa bi lahko spod-bujala participativno oblikovanje prava in pravičnejše pravne strukture"}],"edm:type":"TEXT","dc:type":[{"@xml:lang":"sl","#text":"znanstveno časopisje"},{"@xml:lang":"en","#text":"journals"},{"@rdf:resource":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q361785"}]},"ore:Aggregation":{"@rdf:about":"http://www.dlib.si/?URN=URN:NBN:SI:doc-93LRUS37","edm:aggregatedCHO":{"@rdf:resource":"URN:NBN:SI:doc-93LRUS37"},"edm:isShownBy":{"@rdf:resource":"http://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:doc-93LRUS37/1e78a780-aed6-40ea-a9c1-78321ac33acf/PDF"},"edm:rights":{"@rdf:resource":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/"},"edm:provider":"Slovenian National E-content Aggregator","edm:intermediateProvider":{"@xml:lang":"en","#text":"National and University Library of Slovenia"},"edm:dataProvider":{"@xml:lang":"sl","#text":"Univerza v Ljubljani, Fakulteta za upravo"},"edm:object":{"@rdf:resource":"http://www.dlib.si/streamdb/URN:NBN:SI:doc-93LRUS37/maxi/edm"},"edm:isShownAt":{"@rdf:resource":"http://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:doc-93LRUS37"}}}}