Signs In Law - A Source Book

The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education III

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

Together, the materials in this book weave the fabric of semiotics and significs, two names for the unfolding of semiotics in law and legal discourse at least until the second half of the 20th century, and both of which covered a lawyer’s focus on sign and meaning in law.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-08-23
Mått:155 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt:678 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:431
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319343181

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Preface.- Acknowledged Sources.- 1. Introduction Reading Semiotics; Jan M. Broekman and Larry Catà Backer.- 2. Eco and the Text of the Communist Manifesto; Jan M. Broekman and Larry Catà Backer.- Part I From Legal Significs to Legal Semiotics.- 3. Origins and Effects of Legal Significs; Jan M. Broekman and Larry Catà Backer.- 4. “Word-Value” and “The ‘I’; Frederik van Eeden.- 5. “Significs” and “Significs and Philosophy”; Gerrit Mannoury.- 6. “What is Significs?”; Lady Victoria Welby.- 7. Editorial 1: J.I. de Haan, the First Legal Semiotician.- 8. Essence and Task of Legal Significs; Jacob Israël de Haan.- 9. Legal Significs and its Application in the Terms ‘Liable’, ‘Responsible’ and ‘Accountable’; Jacob Israël de Haan.- Part II Godfathers of Semiotics—Welby, Peirce, Greimas, Lacan.- 10. Editorial 2: ‘Meaning’ and the Welby-Peirce Correspondence.- 11.Meaning; Lady Victoria Welby.- 12. Two Letters to Lady V. Welby: Oct. 12, 1904 and Dec. 24/25 and 28, 1908; Ch. S. Peirce.-13. Editorial 3: Firstness, Shock, and Signs.- 14. Firstness, Shock, Law, and The Hand of the Sheriff; Ch. S. Peirce.- 15. Editorial 4: Layered Discourses, Dynamic Semiotics.- 16. A View On A. J. Greimas’s Essay “The Semiotic Analysis of A Legal Discourse: Commercial Laws That Govern Companies and Groups of Companies”Larry Catà Backer.- 17. Editorial 5: I and Self (Welby, Lacan).- 18. Lacan, The Mirror and the “I”; Jan M. Broekman.- Part III Semiotics of Law Today.- 19. Justinian Corpus Iuris Civilis (Fragment).- 20. Editorial 6: On Persons, Things and Obligations in Semiotic Perspective.- 21. Fundamental Concepts of Roman Law; Max Radin.- 22. Family as a Commonsensical Device and its Place in Law; Tracey Summerfield and Alec McHoul.- 23. The Multiple Faces of a Corporation’s Legal Personality; Larry Catà Backer.- 24. Property: The Legal ‘Thing’ as Artwork; Roberta Kevelson.- 25. Place, Space, and Time in the Sign of Property; Robin P. Malloy.- 26. The Ethics of Property: A semiotic Inquiry Into Ownership; Denis J. Brion.- 27. Quid pro quo: Contractual Semiosis and Translation; Dinda L. Gorlée.- 28. The Semiotics of International Law: Interpretation of the ABM Treaty; R.W.Benson.- 29. Cultural Immersion, Difference and Categories in US Comparative Law: Conclusions; Vivian Grosswald Curran.- Part IV Developing Semiotic Awareness.- 30. Law in Signification Processes; Jan M. Broekman and Larry Catà Backer.- 31. Editorial 7: From Prize-Winning Seminar Papers to a General Conclusion.- 32. Can Words Really Set A Man Free? A Semiotic Analysis of the American Criminal Defendant’s Right to Allocution; Charles Volkert.- 33. Shareholder Derivative Action and Corporate Identity in Delaware Jurisprudence; Alan C. Green.- 34. Signs Without Authority: The Battle of Experts, the Caricature of a Discourse and the Failure of Scientific Evidence; Robert Marriott.- 35. Semiotics in a New Key; Jan M. Broekman and Larry Catà Backer.- General References.- About the Authors.- Name Index.- Subject Index.